SONJA WASDEN: Suicide attempt, managing bipolar disorder and losing 100lbs

<p><strong>Sonja Wasden</strong> is a suicide survivor. She has managed the bipolar, OCD, and anxiety disorder for over 30 years. She has been interviewed on top media, including CBS This Morning and The Tamron Hall Show. Sonja’s award-winning memoir, An Impossible Life, is a lighthouse of hope. Her mental health advocacy work includes doing mental health book clubs in women’s prisons across the country, even Oprah Winfrey participated in one.</p><p><strong>We discuss: </strong></p><ul><li>managing bipolar disorder</li><li>enabling vs helping</li><li>how she lost 100lbs</li><li>how dialectical behavioral therapy helps with suicidal thoughts</li><li>receiving IV's of attivan</li><li>how to allow and invite pain instead of suppressing it</li><li>gastric bypass surgery</li><li>how to ground yourself</li><li>how to manage feelings of being a burden</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>"An Impossible Life" BOOK</strong>: <a href="https://amzn.to/3AEIdHd" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3AEIdHd</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Sponsor:</strong>Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals? <a href="https://betterhelp.com/leo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://betterhelp.com/leo</a> and enjoy 10% off your first month and start talking to mental health professional today!!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>1-on-1 Coaching</strong>: If you want go from feeling hopeless to hopeful, lonely to connected and like a burden to a blessing, then go to 1-on-1 coaching, go to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thrivewithleo.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.thrivewithleo.com</a>.&nbsp;Let’s get to tomorrow, together.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>National Suicide Prevention Lifeline</strong></p><p>988</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Teen Line (Los Angeles)</strong></p><p>800-852-8336</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The Trevor Project (LGBTQ Youth Hotline)</strong></p><p>866-488-7386</p><p><br></p><p><strong>National Domestic Violence Hotline</stron