Sonja’s Story: Surviving Suicide & Finding Beauty in Life

Woman Up with The Sister Brand

** TRIGGER WARNING**
This episode discusses difficult subject matter including suicide, mental health, attempting suicide, depression, and more. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts or a difficult time, please connect with the resources listed below.
Suicide. It hasn’t shaped her life, but it’s left its mark.

Sonja Deklerk lost her dad to suicide. She was a first responder to a stranger when they took their own life. And Sonja has survived her own attempt.

She knows darkness and she knows pain.

The words are hard to express but maybe happiness, and the quest for it, is not all it’s cracked up to be. Maybe we’re making a mistake in only reaching for happiness, lightness, good days, and good moods. In this world there’s an ocean of emotions and maybe there are beautiful things in the darker waters.

Pain has the ability to transform. Pain has the ability to spark empowerment. Pain has the ability to be beautiful.

Guest: Sonja Deklerk
Website: www.sonjadeklerk.com
Instagram: @morethangold_bysonja

Government of Canada Resources:
If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call Talk Suicide Canada at 1-833-456-4566. Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

For mental health support, you can talk to a mental health professional one on one. Call 1-866-585-0445 or text WELLNESS to 741741

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/mental-health-services/mental-health-get-help.html

Alberta Health Services Resources:
Emergency: 911
Mental Health Helpline: 1-877-303-2642
Crisis Text Line: Text CONNECT to 741741
https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/amh/page16759.aspx

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