About BusLife Shenanigans®
Chris, also known as Chappy, is a Desert Storm Veteran, educator, author and founder of Beyond Moods®. Chris has a first-hand lived-experience with Bipolar, Anxiety, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorders.
He has been a survivor-thriver living through the many emotional ups-and-downs associated with the debilitating disability. His lived experience gives him insight and understanding when helping others in need. He is an author, father and passionate advocate for those in need.
Join Chappy of BusLife Shenanigans as he applies his skills and experience as well as invites others with skills to convert a pre-owned coach-bus into a self-sustained mental health mobile, home-office. The bus-conversation will be filmed and uploaded to youtube.
Chappy will collect then share inspiring stories from down-to-earth individuals who have lived and are living through a mental health challenge, in spite of their limitations and the stigma that surrounds mental health.
Chappy will collect and share experiences and stories from groups, companies, and organizations that bring awareness to and combat the stigma associated with mental illness issues and who have made a difference to promote hope to individuals, families, and communities of need.
Along his journey, Chappy will visit New Zealand’s famed national parks and reserves, sharing breath-taking scenery of iconic places, New Zealand’s scenic thermal wonderlands, vast forests, and sandy beaches. Join him as he visits boutique towns and villages and interacts with friendly Kiwis (the New Zealand people) at businesses, events, and market gardens.
Share in the emotional and sometimes unpredictable challenges of ‘life on the road,’ with one plan to guide him, to allow one experience, one conversation, and one recommendation lead to the next.
How this project might unfold
The project will evolve toward the needs of those who most need support and advocacy. Word of mouth, the needs of individuals and groups’, and previous projects’ reputations will provide an endless choice of ideas and community undertakings.
How you can help those in need of support
Chappy will be initiating this project with minimal personal funds and supplies. He will be seeking the kindness, compassion, and support from like-minded followers, documenting every step of the journey in a YouTube Vbolg, hoping that the experience will inspire others to reach out and join a revolution of positive change.
What can you do?
If you find Chappy’s content to be inspiring, entertaining, or helpful and want to support the mental health awareness and advocacy cause, he would profoundly and humbly appreciate your support. Needed support could be in the form of a one-time pledge, a monthly pledge, or if you have a skill or materials to donate, this would also be beneficial (Fabrication, solar, electrical, appliances, mechanical skills, gas-fitter, painter, etc.).
To see Chappy’s previous successful projects, to include setting two world records in Australia to support mental health awareness, and raise funds for the Black Dog Institute, go to his website at http://www.earthwalkcommunity.com/about/the-great-tasmania-walk-for-hope/
and in New Zealand partnering with The New Zealand Mental Health Foundation at http://www.earthwalkcommunity.com/about/the-great-new-zealand-walk-for-hope/
or make a one-off donation at https://www.gofundme.com/create/story/buslife-shenanigans
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