Erin Mahone is the author of If You Could See Me: Life, Moth­er­hood, and the Pur­suit of San­i­ty. She is the cre­ator of #IfY­ouCould­SeeMe a mul­ti-media project help­ing cre­ate space for sto­ries and begin dia­logue around dif­fi­cult sub­jects; and ​“Chief Over­shar­er” at It Runs in the Fam­i­ly. a show of songs and sto­ries about life, laugh­ter, men­tal ill­ness, and family.