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Sonja is a suicide survivor with over 30 years of lived experience with mental health challenges. She is one of today's most insightful and inspirational speakers on mental health. Her award-winning and best-selling book, An Impossible Life, which details her struggles with mental illness, was featured on CBS This Morning as a story of hope. CBS This Morning Correspondent, Dr. Tara Narula, said that Sonja's story was "one of my most sacred and special I've ever done."
Sonja is a devoted mental health advocate. Her mental health advocacy work includes drug addiction recovery programs, homeless shelters, firefighters, police officers, veterans, women's prisons, and others.
Oprah Winfrey graciously participated virtually in one of Sonja's mental health book clubs' discussions to inspire the women inmates at Central California Women's Facility, the world's largest women's prison.
She has traveled the country speaking with Fortune 500 companies, not-for-profit organizations, government officials, advocacy groups, and top media outlets about the importance of mental health. Sonja has been an op-ed contributor in such publications as The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Hill, Ms. Magazine, Kevin M.D., NAMI (National Alliance Mental Illness), Oprah Daily, and others. She is a member of Newsweek Expert Forum.
https://www.sonjawasden.com/
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