Torchlight Series: My Life with Dylan

Join Lifeline Productions for a special Torchlight event featuring Rick Barrera and his moving story, My Life with Dylan. Traveling from San Diego to Sarasota, Rick shares a deeply personal journey through parenting, advocacy, mental health, and radical acceptance. What begins as a story about raising a child through diagnoses, uncertainty, and crisis becomes something even deeper: a reflection on how love, identity, and resilience transform an entire family.

Rick Barrera is an author, business consultant, and professional speaker, and in this heartbreaking and heartwarming session, he brings insight, candor, pain, poetry, and love to a story that speaks to parents, educators, advocates, and anyone who has had to navigate the unexpected. His story explores the impact of mental illness on families and communities, and the profound shift from trying to “fix” a child to learning how to truly witness and support them.

Doors will open at 6 pm with the…