Lori Lane Murphy

Lori Lane Murphy never set out to become a mental health advocate. Instead she worked in the health and safety sector focusing on training and development. However, as she began working on her own mental health through therapy to deal with the death of her father, she started writing about the experience.

That writing soon evolved from a journal into a memoir and ultimately a play entitled Upside Down Dad, a tribute to her father who struggled all his life with clinical depression. Lori eventually authored a book about her own mental illness, Bipolar Expedition and began to see storytelling as a way to give hope to those also struggling with mental illness.

When not writing, Lori co-hosts a podcast, Stories Like Crazy, in an effort to connect with others living with mental illness, normalizing their experiences and erasing its stigma. She was also appointed as an Ambassador of Hope for Ontario Shores’ 100th anniversary and represents the organization at numerous events and in its campaigns.

Lori offers storytelling workshops for clients of Durham Mental Health Services and Ontario Shores’ Recovery College, to help bring forth others’ voices to build a healthy and stigma-free environment within Durham Region.  Lori is also a mentor to DC students for the DC Enactus project, True Grit.