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Welcome back to the Goblin Lore Podcast!
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the plan is for all the episodes this month to relate to important topics within mental health. We are also participating (along with other excellent creators) in #MentalHealthMtG and attempting to raise money for mental health organizations!!
Earlier Hobbes put out a call for Magic Story related to grief and people answered with everything from storylines (Feldon, Ajani, Kamahl) to flavor text to card names to art. Grief is a tough topic to tackle and we had previously reached out to our friend (and fellow Hipster) Ryan Sainio about finally doing an episode. He has been open about the loss of his sister and today he discusses his personal journey with grief (he has touched on it in a scripted audio drama). This also leads to an examination of the stages of grief popularized across media and why they might not be the best way to discuss this difficult process.
Again we would like to state that Black Lives Matter (with a link to where you can offer support both monetary and not).
Goblin Lore is also are proud to have partnered with Grinding Coffee Co a black, LGBT+ affiliated and owned, coffee business that is aimed at providing coffee to gamers. You can read more about their mission here. You can use our partner code for discounted coffee!
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On another new note we continue our partnership with The Fireside Alliance. From their main page: “An independent media network and a progressive community of progressive communities.” Please check them out!
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As promised, we plan to keep these Mental Health Links available moving forward too. For general Mental Health the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has great resources for people struggling with mental health concerns as well as their families. We also want to draw attention to this article on stigma from NAMI’s site.
If you’re thinking about suicide or just need someone to talk to right now, you can get support from any of the resources below.
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
- Veteran’s can Press 1 at anytime to be taken to the Veteran’s Line
- Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741-741
- International suicide hotlines: A comprehensive resource list for people outside the US.
- IMAlive: Click Chat Now to access a live online network of volunteers through instant messaging.
- TrevorLifeline, TrevorChat, and TrevorText (LGBTQ+ crisis support): 1-866-488-7386, or text “Trevor” to 1-202-304-1200
- Trans Lifeline (US): (877) 565-8860
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You can find the hosts on Twitter: Hobbes Q. at @HobbesQ and Alex Newman at @Mel_Chronicler. Send questions, comments, thoughts, hopes, and dreams to @GoblinLorePod on Twitter or GoblinLorePodcast@gmail.com.
Opening and closing music by Wintergatan (@wintergatan). Logo art by Steven Raffael (@SteveRaffle).
Goblin Lore is proud to be presented by Hipsters of the Coast, and a part of their growing Vorthos content – as well as Magic content of all kinds. Check them out at hipstersofthecoast.com.