Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.Last week, we talked with playwright extraordinaire Donja Love-Nicholas about how he's tending to his self-care and finding time for joy while developing a trio of plays for the stage. Check it out.
THIS WEEK'S GOODNESS:
"NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray Launches Mental Health Initiative for Black Men" [Because of Them We Can]
She recently launched, Brothers Thrive, which aims to raise awareness around mental illness and provide Black men in the New York area and beyond with the proper access to health care services. To help fulfill this mission, McCray has partnered with several organizations including 100 Black Men and historically Black Greek-letter fraternities.
"Mental Health Awareness Goes Beyond 'Crazy' or 'Sane' Labels" by Tia Brown [Cassius Life]
At some point, you will realize someone you care about has coped with a mental health issue. Support looks different depending on the circumstance. You can’t control how a person copes, but you can help create an environment where people aren’t ashamed to get help.
Then there's this necessary and raw conversation between Jada Pinkett-Smith, her daughter Willow, and her mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones about Jada's co-parenting journey with Will Smith's first wife, Sheree Fletcher.
"Panic In the Aisles" by Malcolm Aimé-Musoni [Epicurious]
There's nothing in my life that my anxiety doesn't touch. I’ve responded to emails days late because I was too anxious to open the email. I have stayed home because the anxiety that would come from riding a packed subway would be unbearable. I've ignored coworkers in hallways because I was too anxious to make eye contact. And I've avoided stocking my kitchen with basic essentials because when you have my brand of anxiety, the grocery store is sometimes too much.
"I'm Black and My Doctor Should Be Too" by Alex Hardy [Tonic]
On the other end of the healthcare spectrum, as white patients' pain is often perceived to be more severe than that of others, they are more frequently over-prescribed pain medications, which explains in part why opioid addiction is three times as common among white people than among Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks. This might be the sole upside of being under-prescribed.
If you have a mental health resource, event, or piece of content we should know about, step into our office. You da bess.
While you wait for Iyanla to return your call, here are 21 ways to find someone to help you Electric Slide through your emotions.
Each grammatical stumble feels like an affront to Janet Jackson and a failure as a Panamanian grandchild.
Had J.Lo’s role been limited to background swayer #2 then maybe I could have accepted her presence on that stage.
If every public person who is guilty of horrendous indiscretions is banished and never given opportunity to publicly wrestle with their past challenging behavior and rectify it, how will they (we) benefit from the lessons learned?
Here are a few extraordinary wellness resources to help you in the battle against spiritual ashiness.
Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.
Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.
Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.
Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.
Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.
Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.
While we cook up a new episode, here's your chance to catch up on some of our past goodness.
The facts we need to face are that Black people do have ADHD, some of us take medication for it, and these hurtful, dismissive debates within our community aren’t going to change these facts.
“…mental health is not anything to laugh at. It is to be taken seriously, never to be minimized.”
Should I feel guilty that I want to take care of myself and acknowledge my feelings as much as the children I work with?
Mental Health First Aid teaches ye to recognize signs and symptoms of someone developing a mental health or substance use disorder and a five-step action plan to help.
While you wait for Iyanla to return your call, here are 21 ways to find someone to help you Electric Slide through your emotions.
Each grammatical stumble feels like an affront to Janet Jackson and a failure as a Panamanian grandchild.
Had J.Lo’s role been limited to background swayer #2 then maybe I could have accepted her presence on that stage.
If every public person who is guilty of horrendous indiscretions is banished and never given opportunity to publicly wrestle with their past challenging behavior and rectify it, how will they (we) benefit from the lessons learned?
Here are a few extraordinary wellness resources to help you in the battle against spiritual ashiness.
Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.
Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.
Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.
Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.
Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.
Welcome to another round of Mental Health Monday, your weekly dose of stories, resources, and motivation for your everyday life.
While we cook up a new episode, here's your chance to catch up on some of our past goodness.
The facts we need to face are that Black people do have ADHD, some of us take medication for it, and these hurtful, dismissive debates within our community aren’t going to change these facts.
“…mental health is not anything to laugh at. It is to be taken seriously, never to be minimized.”
Should I feel guilty that I want to take care of myself and acknowledge my feelings as much as the children I work with?
Mental Health First Aid teaches ye to recognize signs and symptoms of someone developing a mental health or substance use disorder and a five-step action plan to help.