What Is LoonyBus?
LoonyBus Enterprises™ was formed to raise compassionate awareness and decrease fear-based stigma around mental wellness issues for teens and adults. LoonyBus Enterprises™ is currently expanding and evolving both nationally and internationally to bring a tri-fold message of hope, healing and humor to high schools, colleges, corporations, non-profit organizations and treatment centers about how to go from Rock Bottom to Rock ON! Through mood management techniques and opening dialogue and education about mental hygiene, LBE’s main passion is to help everyone achieve mental wellness; to take the shame and blame out of suicidal thoughts by helping understand them at a core level in order to defuse them; to increase reasons for those suffering from depression to get healthy; to assist them to want to stay on the planet and complete their mission here joyfully and meaningfully.
“Courtney has a way of engaging the audience with her powerful story and warm presence. Her message is a timely one and much needed for today’s youth, for mental health professionals, parents, as well as by society at large. Her writing is accessible to the mainstream and crosses genres blending humor and compassion with the tricky, taboo and often stigma-laden subjects of suicide, depression, bipolar illness and the overarching themes of mental wellness today.”
~Katherine Ellin, Ph.D., M.S.W., D.T.R.
“Courtney gave two talks around the topic of her book entitled, Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin. I found Courtney to be inspiring, witty, and poignant all in an hour. She spoke honestly and with a continual sense of appropriate humor. She reached our students in powerful ways around the sensitive topics of mental hospitalization, depression, and suicidality. At the end of each of her talks there were students who hung around to speak with her more. I recommend her to speak to high school and college audiences about these topics. I think she brings a fresh voice to what has become an epidemic of depression in our time.”
~Jamie B. Chisum, Assistant Principal, Wellesley High School
