Name: If Love Was Enough…Hope and Healing in Community with Linda and John Mazur
Start: 2025-08-20T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-20T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Mental Health Association of Rochester / Monroe County, Inc.

$If Love Was Enough\u2026Hope and Healing in Community with Linda and John Mazur$

Linda and John Mazur share their journey with eating disorders, highlighting hope, healing, and community support.
About this Event

About the Event: Join us for an inspiring evening as Linda and John Mazur share their family’s deeply personal journey through the world of eating disorders, mental health struggles, and grief—and how they turned their pain into purpose. Through storytelling and open conversation, they’ll discuss the critical gaps in mental health care, the often-overlooked struggles of adults with eating disorders, and the healing power of community, peer support, and compassionate advocacy.

About Linda and John Mazur: Linda and John Mazur are the founders of The Emilee Connection, Inc., a nonprofit created in loving memory of their daughter, Emilee, who lost her life to anorexia nervosa at the age of 35. Fulfilling Emilee’s wish to have her story help others, Linda and John co-authored Emilee—The Story of a Girl and Her Family Hijacked by Anorexia, winner of the 2024 International Impact Book Award for memoir and health.

Through The Emilee Connection, they provide peer support groups, educational programs, and community events for adults with eating disorders and their families. They also co-host the podcast Once Shattered: Picking-up the Pieces, and actively advocate for greater awareness, support, and resources for mental health and eating disorder care.

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At the Mental Health Association of Rochester, our mission is to promote mental wellbeing through culturally responsive peer-based programs and services so that individuals and families can thrive in their communities of choice. We rely on the generosity of compassionate supporters like you to advance our mission and make a positive impact on mental health.

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