#4: Season 1, Ep 4 - Embracing Mental Illness with Katie Sanford ACT in Perspective - A prosocial podcast using behavioral science to address human suffering

Katie Sanford is a mental health advocate who works with the Chicago chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) where she does speaking engagements for crisis intervention and mental health awareness trainings.  She is a graduate of Northwestern University out of Illinois and currently works as a legal assistant outside of Chicago where she lives with her boyfriend James.   

She started her own blog entitled Not Like The Others found at katiesanford.net in March 2020 where she chronicles her life's journey living with the diagnoses of depressive-type schizoaffective disorder, PTSD and OCD.  

Katie openly shares her experiences, struggles and successes to be a strong advocate for others going through similar struggles and to further de-stigmatize mental illness.    

You can donate to help support her blog and advocacy work at:

https://www.mightycause.com/story/Katiesanford

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