Hip-hop artist Christopher LeMark started healing from decades of trauma thanks to therapy. He decided to help his fellow Chicago residents.
As LeMark worked through the"marathon" that is healing from trauma, he felt called to help others do the same. He went home and wrote down"coffee,""mental health" and"hip-hop" — three phrases that symbolized healing to him.
"I wrote down 'coffee' because of the mental and emotional breakdown happened inside of a coffee shop," LeMark explained."Hip-hop saved my life from committing suicide. I always had a chance to write. It was my first form of therapy. And 'mental health,' because in my community we're taught to survive and we weren't talking about it, so I wanted to normalize this conversation.
With that, LeMark opened"Coffee, Hip-Hop, and Mental Health," a non-profit organization where every hip-hop inspired drink sold helps fund free therapy sessions for individuals in need. LeMark said that initially, he wanted to sell enough coffee and merchandise to send 250 people to therapy. One woman, public school teacher Faith Overall, was among those first helped by the program.
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