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From Bipolar Cycles To Creative Breakthroughs + Resiliency with James McKenna (Part 1)
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- Reignite Resilience
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- Mar 16, 2026
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- 1665
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Send us Fan Mail Ever felt your spark flicker and wondered how to light it again? We sit down with artist James McKenna to trace the real, unglamorous craft of resilience—how a childhood shaped by volatility, a life with bipolar depression and emerging BPD insights, and years of creative trial and error forged a voice in steel and stone that people can’t ignore. James doesn’t trade in tidy turnarounds. He builds them, one welded choice at a time. We walk through the moments that mattered: re...