Preview of the Next Course: A Guide to Create Your Bipolar Support Dream Team
Learn the importance of assembling Your Bipolar Support Dream Team: Tools for Healing, Resilience, and Growth
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Today I want to give you a behind-the-scenes look at what I’ve been building over the past two months. I'm about two weeks away from launching my second course on Udemy, and I am very excited to share it with you.
The course is called “A Guide to Create Your Bipolar Support Dream Team,” and it's part of my ongoing journey with The Bipolar Path—to help people with bipolar disorder thrive. This course is designed to give you the tools, strategy, and insight to build the kind of strong, dependable support system that can truly make the difference during manic or depressive episodes.
In my first course, Protecting Your Freedom: Detect Mania Earlier, we talked about the importance of having one trusted person who can step in during a manic episode—someone you’ve given permission to hold your car keys, credit card, phone, or even medication when you're not in a place to manage them yourself.
This new course teaches you how to build a team.
We’ll explore how to identify your current team's strengths and weaknesses and then teach you to build an entire team, your Dream Team of people who can help you stay, reduce the risk of episodes, respond during crisis, and support your long-term recovery.
Why This Matters
I’ve been incredibly lucky in my life. Over the years, I’ve had mentors, friends, and peers who showed up when I was at my worst—when I was in the depths of mania or depression, and was losing hope. Those people didn’t appear by chance. They showed up because we had already built trust and connection when I was well. They knew that I was someone who would listen, help them move, show up when they needed support—because I believe in showing up for others.
Fire & S’mores,
Not everyone has been able to handle the fire of bipolar episodes. But the people who stayed? Those are my people, my Dream Team. And they’re why I built this course—to help you find people. People who understand you, show up for you and love you.
What You’ll Learn in the Course
This course is a hands-on guide to identifying, vetting, and building your support team. How to become the person that can attract the team you want. We break down what makes someone a good fit to support you—and how to ask for help in a way that builds connection, not shame.
This was a mentor and my psychologist, and today after his passing I call him my friend. He encouraged me and is a big part of my inspiration to do this work.
We'll walk through how to connect with and build relationships across six essential categories:
Mental Health and Medical Providers
Non-Western Healers & Coaches
Friends
Family
Mentors
Peers / People with Lived Experience
Most importantly, I’ll show you how to use periods of wellness to invest in these relationships—how to be a good friend, patient, or mentee, so that when the hard times come, you’ve already laid the foundation for people to show up for you.
My Why
Over the years, I’ve had the support of incredible therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and non-traditional healers. People who believed in me when I couldn’t believe in myself. They helped me understand how to care for my body, mind, and spirit. I learned the importance of sobriety, nutrition, sleep, exercise, and calming my nervous system in short living a health balanced life.
Everything I’ve learned—through experience, trial and error, and deep reflection—is going into this course. I'm sharing the 20 years of experience of living alongside bipolar disorder. I wish I had this course 20 years ago when I started my journey living on my Dad’s couch, with one friend in the town I grew up in. I hope this experience will help make you journey faster, less painful, and more empowering.
At The Bipolar Path, we believe that building a strong support team is one of the most important steps in managing bipolar disorder and preventing relapse or crisis. It’s not just helpful—it’s life-saving.
I can't wait to share this course with you. I am putting a stack in the ground. My goal is to release a course every 6-8 weeks to make each course more powerful, useful, and connected.
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Thanks scott!