LIZ BEECROFT: It’s a little bit of a long story, but I’ll give you the main points. I was an only child. And, I found out when I was in like fifth or sixth grade that I struggled with homesickness really badly. I couldn’t even go to overnight basketball camps for a weekend without having panic attacks.

So, my parents ended up taking me to a therapist. And, that was my first experience with mental health, therapy, and learning what the heck was going on. And, it kind of continued on until high school. It was so bad that my mom would have to give me sleeping pills in order to go to these camps and just kind of drug me so I wouldn’t go into panic mode. I had therapy throughout that and eventually I got over it, which was great. I learned that it had to do with attachment and stuff I was dealing with being an only child and kind of growing up being sheltered.

Later on, I went to college and I had a hard time adjusting. Growing up, my whole structure in life was sports, sports, go to school, sports. It was very rigid, I didn’t have much leeway. When I went to college, it was a huge adjustment being on my own. I was still playing basketball in college, but it was just a different environment I had to adjust to. So, I started experiencing it again. And then I had a really bad breakup, which put me over the edge. I overdosed. I ended up in the hospital and had to go back to therapy. I think that was the turning point for me. When I was older, I kind of understood how this was really helpful. It helped me become really confident in myself and also learn my triggers and how to deal with all I was dealing with. I actually was a Biology major when I first went into college. I wanted to be an orthodontist, I had braces like three times. I thought that was going to be my job, it was going to make a lot of money. And then I hated Chemistry, Organic Chemistry was a bitch. So, I changed my major to Psychology during my junior year and that’s kind of what led me into therapy. I wanted to be able to give back to other people because I knew how much it impacted me.

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