Willa Goodfellow’s early work with troubled teens as an Episcopal priest shaped an edgy perspective and preaching style. A bachelor’s degree from Reed College and a master’s from Yale gave her the intellectual chops to read and comprehend scientific research about mental illness—and her life mileage taught her to recognize and call out the bull.

So she set out to turn her own misbegotten sojourn in the land of antidepressants into a writing career. Her journalism has attracted the attention of leading psychiatrists who worked on the DSM-5. She is certified in Mental Health First Aid, graduated from NAMI’s Peer to Peer, and has presented on mental health recovery at NAMI events and Carver Medical College of Medicine at the University of Iowa.

Recent appearances include Psychology Today, podcasts Beyond Well with Sheila Hamilton and Being UnNormal with Kimberly Berry, and the Healing Trauma Conference, sponsored by Haelan House. She is a blogger for the International Bipolar Foundation, in addition to her own blog, Prozac Monologues: Reflections on the Mind, the Brain, Society, and Mental Illness

Today she hikes, travels, plans seven course dinner menus, works on the next writing project, Bar Tales of Costa Rica, and stirs up trouble. She lives with her wife Helen in Central Oregon and still misses her dog Mazie.

Connect with Willa online on Facebook, on Twitter, and at her blog Prozac Monologues: Reflections and Research on the MInd, the Brain, Mental Illness, and Society.