Jerri Niebaum ClarkJerri Niebaum Clark is a professional mental health advocate and an award-winning journalist who lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she surfs, practices yoga, and is a gramma to two young boys. Her son, Calvin, died from his severe mental illness n 2019, when he was 23. Clark manages a resource center and supports and trains families for the non-profit Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC). TAC's focus is severe mental illness (SMI), which means psychotic conditions that are life-altering. Clark has shared her story and advocacy points on numerous print and broadcast platforms, including "PBS News Hour" and The Seattle Times. As a yoga teacher for more than 20 years, she sees her ambiguous loss work as a coalescence of the self-discoveries from those practices alongside her journalism, advocacy, and lived experience as a mom stretching to survive a loss beyond human expectation. Read More Read Less