![]() Now the memoir is officially on shelves at bookstores, Rush is working on getting a cookbook out, and he is working on a television show that has him traveling around the world and working with other famous chefs like Gordon Ramsay. For me, it was me looking through my own eyes and not knowing myself, so it was a revelation for who I actually was, who I have become and who I’m becoming.” People see just the finished product, but they don’t see how it actually started. It was just confirmation that this is life. A million emotions and a million things were forgotten until I actually went back over and realized they did happen. … When I decided to write the book, I kind of took that, and it was unlocked. My life was my life and it was always private. “When I say ‘secrets’ I mean things that we don’t want to open. “When they came to me and asked me to write this book, I initially said no because we all have secrets,” Rush said. We are currently in the process of hiring more crisis line workers to help answer the phone because our calls have increased, and we need to have more people so we can continue our 90 percent plus answer-rate to reach as many people as possible.”įor Rush, writing a book where he exposes so many things he intended to keep close to his chest was “brutal” but also a “revelation.” He hopes that there is something everyone can take from it regardless of upbringing, economic status or race. It will also help bring awareness and will make people more comfortable to call us. “Because of our mission to help those who are suffering with thoughts of suicide and going through a crisis, receiving the proceeds from Chef Rush’s book signing will help us as an agency to have those funds to keep our lines open,” Sunivelle said. Sunivelle said funding is incredibly important, and with the influx of crisis calls they have been receiving because of the COVID-19 pandemic, they need as much help as possible. A lot of people don’t know about Contact Helpline or understand it.” … I wanted to make sure that we were highlighting a dedicated cause that can be profiled and we could bring awareness to it. “Supporting Contact Helpline is helping spread a message, especially coming from Mississippi. ![]() “I do a lot of advocacy for a lot of different things, and I kind of bring awareness to the ones that people tend to look over,” Rush said. ![]() For this reason, he is more than happy to have the proceeds for all book sales at the signing event on Saturday go to benefit Contact Helpline, one of the only two centers in Mississippi that assist more than 90 percent of callers through mental health crises, according to director Katrina Sunivelle. Rush is an advocate for mental health, especially in relation to suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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