Kimberly Zapata is a wife, mother, award-winning writer and editor, and mental health advocate who has lived with mental illness since she was fifteen years old. She is the founder of Greater Than: Illness, an organization which aims to empower children and young adults with mental health concerns. She is a powerful public speaker and has used her voice to talk about mental health at various conferences, including BlogHer, Mental Health America, and on television programs. And Kimberly has written about everything from anxiety, suicide, and bipolar disorder to postpartum depression—and she has done so for a wide range of outlets, including Healthline, Everyday Health, Well+Good, Parents, Oprah, Washington Post, Huff Post, and Vice, to name a few.
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