A stay-at-home mother of two who lives in Texas, Fender chronicles her everyday struggles with bipolar on her very active blog. Family health crises, medication side effects, her aspiring writing career—she covers all of it in frank detail. And she's not afraid to fire back at her critics.
Michael Gonzalez Wallace has been involved with athletic sports for over 20 years, which is almost half his age. Michael’s athletic career spans many years practicing semi-pro basketball in Spain, where his team, Estudiantes won the Spanish National Competition (similar to NCAA in USA and he was named the MVP of the Final, May 1993).
In 1995 the Spanish basketball federation certified Michael as a strength trainer and basketball coach providing him the opportunity to develop his teaching skills. Being involved with basketball for more than 15 years, Michael learned the important concepts of teamwork, leadership, muscle coordination and physical strength training.
Although moving to NYC in 2002 to pursue a banking career Gonzalez-Wallace, become a personal trainer for New York sports Club and received a certification from the National Academy of sports Medicine. He was drawn to sports medicine as if fate had a different calling for him. Then his life went to a profound transformation moving from banking to the health sector. He says, “The reward of helping people to achieve their goals was the best thing it has ever happened to me” At the National Academy of Sports medicine he learned the significance of core strength, proper postural alignment and the neuromuscular system, the latter being essential to develop his program called neuromuscular progressive strength training.
Cristina C. Fender, 34, has been researching Bipolar Disorder and blogging about her own experiences for several years. At age 21 she was diagnosed with depression and saw psychiatrists for over ten years before she was correctly diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder I. Her vision for writing at Raw Writing for the Real World of Bipolar is to inform and educate the public about mental illness.
Her blog, Raw Writing for the Real World of Bipolar, was named Best of Bipolar Blogs at Psych Central.com in 2008 and Health.com in 2009. Health.com had this to say about her blog:Cristina C. Fender, known to her readers as “Bipolar Chica,” is the voice behind Raw Writings for the Real World of Bipolar.
Cristina is the author of Life as a Bipolar Mom, a controversial and widely read article on the treatment of Bipolar Disorder, that was featured on Health.com, CNN.com and Glamour.com.
She's recently been accepted into NAMI's In Our Own Voice program and will begin training in September to speak about her own experiences with Bipolar and educate the public on mental illness.
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