Going Back To School? Community May Be The Medicine | Bridgett Strickler | TEDxYorkville Women

[applause] My comeback didn't begin in a stadium or at a life-changing conference. It began in aisle 5 of a Walgreens. It was a cold January day. I was picking up toothpaste, nursing a hangover again, clutching a coffee, and feeling the pain rock my brain from back to front. I studied myself. Shopping basket on my arm. The fluorescent lights a little too bright for me. Valentine's Day was around the corner, but I was worried about my friend Steve. He'd been acting erratically the night before, and I'd stepp ...