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By ANDREW TURTLE

Published: 2025
Pages: 215

Author Description

Andrew Turtle is a lived experience leader, mental health advocate, and emerging author whose work is rooted in the transformative power of personal experience. Turtle’s contributions to the lived experience movement are grounded in his work as a writer and thinker who seeks to redefine the narratives of recovery, empowerment, and human potential. He is the author of The Consumer Journey (Chipmunka Publishing, 2019) and the self-published memoir A Turtle’s Journey (2023), both of which offer candid accounts of navigating the mental health system and emerging into purpose and leadership. His work, Lived Experience Power (2025), is a cornerstone publication in his advocacy efforts, exploring the emerging global recognition of lived experience as a powerful force in shaping mental health policy, service design, and cultural change.

In addition to his lived experience work, Turtle is a researcher and spiritual thinker whose writings explore the deeper intersections of consciousness, human evolution, and cosmology. With academic backgrounds in Chinese Medicine and Public Health, his interdisciplinary approach integrates Eastern and Western paradigms, drawing from over 15 years of study and practice. Turtle’s extensive collection of ebooks includes Dialectics of Mania (2023), The Wellness Revolution (2023), Spiritual Pathways (2023), In Search for Spirit (2025), Opening to Spirit (2nd Ed., 2025), Synchronicity (2025), and Co-Creation (2025). At the heart of his literary vision is The Creation Series. This multi-volume cosmological work reimagines the Genesis narrative through the lenses of evolutionary theory, mystical insight, and spiritual science. The series invites readers into a participatory cosmology in which humanity’s purpose is not passive observation but conscious co-creation with universal intelligence.

Andrew Turtle is emerging as a leading voice in the lived experience movement through his advocacy, research, and creative work. He contributes to mental health reform and a broader cultural shift toward wholeness, inclusion, and spiritual evolution. His vision offers a powerful integration of personal truth, intellectual exploration, and a call to collective awakening.

Book Description

“Lived Experience Power is a landmark work that captures the heart and evolution of the global mental health lived experience movement. As a historical document and a visionary guide, this book highlights the key principles, themes, and transformative initiatives that have shaped lived experience advocacy worldwide. From the rise of consumer-led change and peer-led alternatives to traditional psychiatry, to anti-stigma campaigns, leadership development, and the academic grounding of Mad Studies, Lived Experience Power offers a comprehensive exploration of how people with lived and living experience are reshaping mental health systems, narratives, and structures.

Designed for academics, policymakers, advocates, and those with lived experience alike, this book maps out critical global initiatives. It provides a powerful call to action, proposing a collective structure to unify and advance the international lived experience movement. Whether new to or deeply embedded in the movement, Lived Experience Power is an essential resource and roadmap for anyone committed to mental health transformation led by those who know it from the inside out.