Featured Posts Remembering Brian: Twenty-Five Years Later At twenty five years, it’s about all the things he has missed. It’s the longing for everything that didn’t happen, the things that couldn’t happen, because he’s no longer here. Grief has been a strange road, one that cannot truly be explained. It started with being all-consuming, a disbelief that… Back to School, Back to Connection: Prioritize Your Mental Health 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. “What Will People Say?”: Mental Health in Immigrant Families 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
Back to School, Back to Connection: Prioritize Your Mental Health 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.
“What Will People Say?”: Mental Health in Immigrant Families 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 a Culture of Wellness in a Remote or Hybrid Environment While many companies believed working-from-home would be a short-term solution to adhere to safety precautions of the COVID-19 pandemic, over one year later, employers are reconsidering what it looks like to continue remote or hybrid working even after it becomes safe to return to the office again. … Read More Self-Advocating for Your Needs: Navigating the “New Normal” at Work As vaccines increase and the nation appears to gradually approach yet another new state of “normal,” one in which more offices and schools reopen and people resume in-person socializing, comfort levels with all that lies ahead vary. For example, in a recent poll of Active Minds’… Read More Seeking Mental Health Services for the First Time: What You REALLY Need to Know As the pandemic continues, a recent report from the Healthy Minds Network found that half of students screened positive for depression and/or anxiety in Fall 2020. Many with pre-existing mental health challenges may be experiencing exacerbated symptoms, while others may be… Read More LGBTQ+ and BIPOC Mental Health Matter All Year Long Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. June (Pride month) and July (BIPOC Mental Health Month) are historically times in our society to recognize, celebrate, and advocate for the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. While it is important to acknowledge the strides our society has made during… Read More Anxiety, Fear Living Amid Anti-Semitism Visible or not, hatred is an aspect of society that affects every one of us. It comes in many shapes and forms and centers around no one specific thing, person, or issue. While many have dealt with feelings or the consequences of hatred at some point in their… Read More 67% of Us Feel Like Naomi Osaka: How Should Our Culture Shift Post-COVID? It’s a common refrain spoken in all aspects of life but especially in sports: “If you’re tired, learn to rest, not quit.” So, why wasn’t tennis pro Naomi Osaka allowed to rest? In case you haven’t been following, Osaka recently sparked a… Read More A Letter to My Active Minds Chapter Going off to college was both exciting and terrifying. A part of me was ready to experience somewhere other than my small town in New Jersey. But, another part of me was so overwhelmed by the idea of change. And having been recently diagnosed with an anxiety disorder,… Read More The Power of Conversations Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. Having real conversations saved my life, literally. To start, I am a multiple suicide attempt survivor. Struggling with chronic suicidal thoughts and not knowing what to do with them is extremely exhausting. I constantly thought that… Read More How One Voice Created Change: Kai Roberts at Lenox Memorial Middle and High School In the Active Minds’ Fall Student Survey, almost 90% of students reported experiencing stress or anxiety as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This statistic is high yet not surprising, seeing how much has happened in the past months. It can be easy to… Read More Stress Less this April, and Beyond The culture on a university campus is one that normally prioritizes grades, socializing, sports, and greek life above mental health breaks. It can be stressful. As an undergraduate, it was not uncommon to hear one of my friends say every day, “I am overwhelmed.” Many students struggle to balance their… Read More 28 / 49
Creating a Culture of Wellness in a Remote or Hybrid Environment While many companies believed working-from-home would be a short-term solution to adhere to safety precautions of the COVID-19 pandemic, over one year later, employers are reconsidering what it looks like to continue remote or hybrid working even after it becomes safe to return to the office again. … Read More
Self-Advocating for Your Needs: Navigating the “New Normal” at Work As vaccines increase and the nation appears to gradually approach yet another new state of “normal,” one in which more offices and schools reopen and people resume in-person socializing, comfort levels with all that lies ahead vary. For example, in a recent poll of Active Minds’… Read More
Seeking Mental Health Services for the First Time: What You REALLY Need to Know As the pandemic continues, a recent report from the Healthy Minds Network found that half of students screened positive for depression and/or anxiety in Fall 2020. Many with pre-existing mental health challenges may be experiencing exacerbated symptoms, while others may be… Read More
LGBTQ+ and BIPOC Mental Health Matter All Year Long Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide statistics. June (Pride month) and July (BIPOC Mental Health Month) are historically times in our society to recognize, celebrate, and advocate for the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. While it is important to acknowledge the strides our society has made during… Read More
Anxiety, Fear Living Amid Anti-Semitism Visible or not, hatred is an aspect of society that affects every one of us. It comes in many shapes and forms and centers around no one specific thing, person, or issue. While many have dealt with feelings or the consequences of hatred at some point in their… Read More
67% of Us Feel Like Naomi Osaka: How Should Our Culture Shift Post-COVID? It’s a common refrain spoken in all aspects of life but especially in sports: “If you’re tired, learn to rest, not quit.” So, why wasn’t tennis pro Naomi Osaka allowed to rest? In case you haven’t been following, Osaka recently sparked a… Read More
A Letter to My Active Minds Chapter Going off to college was both exciting and terrifying. A part of me was ready to experience somewhere other than my small town in New Jersey. But, another part of me was so overwhelmed by the idea of change. And having been recently diagnosed with an anxiety disorder,… Read More
The Power of Conversations Content Warning: This piece contains mentions of suicide. Having real conversations saved my life, literally. To start, I am a multiple suicide attempt survivor. Struggling with chronic suicidal thoughts and not knowing what to do with them is extremely exhausting. I constantly thought that… Read More
How One Voice Created Change: Kai Roberts at Lenox Memorial Middle and High School In the Active Minds’ Fall Student Survey, almost 90% of students reported experiencing stress or anxiety as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This statistic is high yet not surprising, seeing how much has happened in the past months. It can be easy to… Read More
Stress Less this April, and Beyond The culture on a university campus is one that normally prioritizes grades, socializing, sports, and greek life above mental health breaks. It can be stressful. As an undergraduate, it was not uncommon to hear one of my friends say every day, “I am overwhelmed.” Many students struggle to balance their… Read More
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