podcast time

Today at 11 am Greta and Ludde met me at the hospital for taking me out. We were heading home to my parents house for a very exciting project. We had been planned this for weeks and finally I am strong enough to be doing this. What we were doing was actually making an episod of their podcast where I was invited as a guest. They had brought vegan chocolate and iKaffe so before we began playing we made loads of coffee. Since I moved out from my apartment, all my stuff are placed in a small room at their house and finally I found my camera. I have missed photographing so much. I have been interested in photographing for years and I used to bring my camera everywhere. Now it was half a year since I took a picture so I found this moment very tending to pick up the camera again. This is my lovely friend Greta. She is so kind, so inspiring and she is a big motivation for me to move on. It was actually the second time I met Ludde (but the first time was just a 'hello' at the street) but I felt very comfortable in his company too. This girl just makes me so happy. When we needed to take a break from podcasting Greta and Ludde laughed, sang and played guitar in my living room. 4 pm we were finally done with the episod and made some lunch which was a salad of quinoa, cucumber, beans, onion, avocado and tomatoes. 5.30 pm we left my house and they followed me back to the hospital where I now have been resting and thinking. The podcast made me think a lot because why I was a guest was because this episods topic was mental ill-health. I have been talking about my past, about how I got sick, about identity, inpatient times, diagnosis, where I am today and where what I am striving forward for. I have been very open spoken and honest and of course some things are really hard to talk about but with Greta and Ludde nothing feels weird or uncomfortable. They do not judge me for being me, they asking and they are putting me upwards. I am blessed to have such lovely people around me, waiting for me out there and seeing me for Elin and not my sickness. I will keep you updated when the podcast is out because you HAVE to listen. This is an important episod, not just because it is about me. Mental ill-health needs to be spoken more about, and that is what we actually have done today.