Empowering conversations on Mental Health Through Storytelling, Movement & Lived Experience
Empowering conversations on Mental Health Through Storytelling, Movement & Lived Experience
Empowering conversations on Mental Health Through Storytelling, Movement & Lived Experience
Empowering conversations on Mental Health Through Storytelling, Movement & Lived Experience
Empowering conversations on Mental Health Through Storytelling, Movement & Lived Experience
Empowering conversations on Mental Health Through Storytelling, Movement & Lived Experience
About Sandra Steiner
Sandra Steiner has risen above the challenges of multiple mental health hospitalizations to become a successful fitness professional, motivational speaker, mother and advocate living with bipolar. Embracing her ups and downs, Sandra considers herself to be thriving-ish. Never quite out of the woods, but always walking, or pedaling her bike on a sunny path through the trees. Through her honest, captivating and sometimes humourous storytelling, she invites readers to explore the challenges and triumphs of her journey.
SPEAKING
Sandra is a dynamic speaker, author and certified fitness professional with 25+ years of experience, combining science, storytelling, humour and lived experience to inspire mental wellness in communities, workplaces and podcasts
A Sparkling Tornado
A Memoir of Living and Thriving-ish with Bipolar Disorder
A Sparkling Tornado takes readers on one woman’s journey through the whirlwind of living with bipolar disorder, tumbling from the bleak darkness of depression to the highs of mania. After surviving the first of several suicide attempts, Sandra takes us along as she travels through both extremes. Along the way, impulsive decisions like launching a quirky flowerpot painting business infuse humour into the turmoil.
From the rock bottom of hospitalizations and electric shock treatments, Sandra commits to therapy and medication, clawing her way toward healing through motherhood, a career in fitness, and divorce and remarriage.
After 23 years of stability, her bipolar disorder rages again and she finds herself back in "grippy socks" on the psych ward. Writing becomes part of her recovery, and with each word she finds healing and her way back to mental health.
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