Featured Posts Finding Connection at Send Silence Packing® Connection. I left our most recent stop of Send Silence Packing® (SSP) with this word brimming at the top of my mind. Although I’m fairly new to Active Minds, I didn’t expect the exhibit to have this kind of impact on me as one of the staff members… “Existence Is Enough” Queer Community, Mental Health, and the Power of Belonging Brotherhood in Action: A Community Approach to Mental Health Awareness Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness. View all the latest blog posts
Brotherhood in Action: A Community Approach to Mental Health Awareness Through fun, welcoming events that encouraged real participation, we set out to bring our campus and local community together around a cause that matters: mental health awareness.
All Posts Creating Safe Spaces for Mental Health at Tuskegee University Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 17, we share this message from Tuskegee University’s Active Minds chapter, a historically Black university, to both celebrate and honor the work and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,… Read More Confronting the Winter Blues As a junior in college, I was fortunate enough to study abroad in Cape Town, South Africa over winter break. Getting out of the northern hemisphere provided me the chance to experience a second summer during January. Spending weeks seeing the sun reflecting off the white-sandy beaches of… Read More Preparing for a Semester of Uncertainty When thinking about returning to school for my second semester, I’ve experienced a rollercoaster of emotions in the last few weeks. At first, I was excited – the pandemic felt somewhat under control and I thought I’d be able to return to school normally. However, with the new variant, Omicron,… Read More You Don’t Need A New Year’s Resolution 2022 is here at last! It’s a bit hard to process the new year, considering 2020 and 2021 have both felt like a continuous fever dream. You’d think we’d all want to take it easy given that the last collectively “normal” year was 2019, yet the pressure to… Read More Suicide Doesn’t Need to be Taboo: My Experience with Send Silence Packing Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. I grew up thinking that showing vulnerability was a sign of weakness. That weakness would eventually be taken advantage of, so it was better to keep things locked up. For a long time, I had a hard time opening up. Read More All About the Active Minds National Conference, From an Active Minds Student If you’re looking for a weekend of inspiration, education, and hope then you don’t want to miss the 2022 Active Minds National Conference this February. Being surrounded by over 600 students, chapter advisors, professionals, and advocates helped me feel less alone and helped me realize how much… Read More Extending Thankfulness Beyond the Dinner Table For many, Thanksgiving is marked by eating a lot of food, doing a hefty amount of shopping, and just taking time to spend the day with loved ones you may not see often. Growing up, I’ll admit that I always thought that going to the mall and shopping… Read More Investing in Mental Health in High School Can Shape Your College Experience How can you make the transition from high school to college easier? Simple: focus on mental health. Understand what you need to succeed both academically and in taking care of yourself. Prioritize finding mentors, professors, and friends to aid the transition. Okay, maybe it… Read More Student Veterans as Mental Health Leaders, Not Concerns Mental health issues have risen among young adults globally for the last decade. As this terrible trend continues to incline, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that to turn the tide on this issue, we need new ideas, strategies, and out-of-the-box thinking. Those innovations tend to come from… Read More Dixie D’Amelio Goes Head-to-Head With Sister Charli to Fundraise for Active Minds in New Snap Original Series “Charli vs. Dixie” Dixie and Charli D’Amelio are perhaps two of the biggest names in American pop culture today. The sisters have amassed a following in the hundreds of millions on social media, starred in their own television series, and shared their lives with people around the world, all before turning twenty-one. Most… Read More 24 / 48
Creating Safe Spaces for Mental Health at Tuskegee University Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 17, we share this message from Tuskegee University’s Active Minds chapter, a historically Black university, to both celebrate and honor the work and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,… Read More
Confronting the Winter Blues As a junior in college, I was fortunate enough to study abroad in Cape Town, South Africa over winter break. Getting out of the northern hemisphere provided me the chance to experience a second summer during January. Spending weeks seeing the sun reflecting off the white-sandy beaches of… Read More
Preparing for a Semester of Uncertainty When thinking about returning to school for my second semester, I’ve experienced a rollercoaster of emotions in the last few weeks. At first, I was excited – the pandemic felt somewhat under control and I thought I’d be able to return to school normally. However, with the new variant, Omicron,… Read More
You Don’t Need A New Year’s Resolution 2022 is here at last! It’s a bit hard to process the new year, considering 2020 and 2021 have both felt like a continuous fever dream. You’d think we’d all want to take it easy given that the last collectively “normal” year was 2019, yet the pressure to… Read More
Suicide Doesn’t Need to be Taboo: My Experience with Send Silence Packing Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. I grew up thinking that showing vulnerability was a sign of weakness. That weakness would eventually be taken advantage of, so it was better to keep things locked up. For a long time, I had a hard time opening up. Read More
All About the Active Minds National Conference, From an Active Minds Student If you’re looking for a weekend of inspiration, education, and hope then you don’t want to miss the 2022 Active Minds National Conference this February. Being surrounded by over 600 students, chapter advisors, professionals, and advocates helped me feel less alone and helped me realize how much… Read More
Extending Thankfulness Beyond the Dinner Table For many, Thanksgiving is marked by eating a lot of food, doing a hefty amount of shopping, and just taking time to spend the day with loved ones you may not see often. Growing up, I’ll admit that I always thought that going to the mall and shopping… Read More
Investing in Mental Health in High School Can Shape Your College Experience How can you make the transition from high school to college easier? Simple: focus on mental health. Understand what you need to succeed both academically and in taking care of yourself. Prioritize finding mentors, professors, and friends to aid the transition. Okay, maybe it… Read More
Student Veterans as Mental Health Leaders, Not Concerns Mental health issues have risen among young adults globally for the last decade. As this terrible trend continues to incline, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that to turn the tide on this issue, we need new ideas, strategies, and out-of-the-box thinking. Those innovations tend to come from… Read More
Dixie D’Amelio Goes Head-to-Head With Sister Charli to Fundraise for Active Minds in New Snap Original Series “Charli vs. Dixie” Dixie and Charli D’Amelio are perhaps two of the biggest names in American pop culture today. The sisters have amassed a following in the hundreds of millions on social media, starred in their own television series, and shared their lives with people around the world, all before turning twenty-one. Most… Read More
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