About me
Caroline Mazel-Carlton is a voice-hearer, a former IV drug user and a survivor of institutional trauma in both the psychiatric and criminal legal systems. She now works to promote harm reduction, hope and human rights as the Director of Learning Opportunities for the Wildflower Alliance. She has supported the international Hearing Voices movement for many years, including serving on the HVN-USA Board and partnering with Dr. Gail Hornstein on the Hearing Voices Research & Development project. Since moving out of a staffed psychiatric residential facility in 2009, Caroline has provided support, advocacy and education in diverse settings from grassroots community spaces to forensic psychiatric hospitals to maximum security prisons. Caroline’s passion is centering and exploring the experiences that are often the most silenced, such as suicide, insitutional trauma and non-consensus reality states. Her work with “Alternatives to Suicide” and the Hearing Voices Network has been featured in books like Daniel Bergner's "The Mind and the Moon" and popular media outlets such as the New York Times, Foreign Policy and O magazine. Caroline has contributed to multiple academic publications on the topic of suicide and one book on her experience skating on a roller derby team as #18 “Mazel Tov Cocktail”. Caroline's own journey also involves the study and practice of Jewish mysticism and folk practices. She works regularly with psychiatric survivors who are reclaiming spiritual tools and frameworks to find healing, community and liberation.
