Becca had been documenting her own experiences parenting a young child with behavioural challenges for four years. Overwhelmed by heartbreak, frustration, and systemic failures, Becca faced isolation from schools and friends, and a relentless struggle to find support for her “challenging” child.
In this barrier-breaking documentary, Becca Rich turns the camera on herself and other families in similar situations to capture what it’s like living with children with mental health challenges. Together – guided by health professionals and pioneering thinkers in holistic health – they embark on a profound and transformative journey to explore kinder, smarter, healthier approaches to this ‘silent pandemic,’ aiming to reveal a groundbreaking path forward for these children and their families.
In a world where different, sensitive kids drive parents to exhaustion, depression, anger and divorce. Where kids are prescribed pharmaceutical drugs that can inhibit their development and claim their healthy futures. Where those who do not fit in the education institutions, and are not seen for who they truly are, can and do end up with long term mental health issues, unemployed and/or in jail, Beautiful Souls tells a different story.
A love story, dedicated to Becca’s son and all the others like him, whose diversity may create massive challenges but whose gifts point to a brighter future for all of us on this planet.
