Teri Drake-Floyd works at Nuçi's Space, a musician's health and resource center in Athens, Georgia built to prevent suicide and keep working musicians alive, healthy, and making music. By night, she writes southern gothic and horror fiction under the pen name Lillah Lawson, pulling from her own family's history to tell stories most people are too afraid to tell. In this episode, we talk about the language shift Nuçi's Space uses on purpose, calling it "brain illness" instead of "mental illness," and why that one word change can change how someone accesses care. We talk about the moment Teri realized a friend had once used a real crisis intervention method to save her life, years before she got trained in that exact method herself. And we talk about the family story, and the great-great-grandmother nobody would speak about, that became the seed f ...