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… Healing with Send Silence Packing 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. Meet the Interns: A Look Back at Summer and Forward to the Fall 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
Healing with Send Silence Packing 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.
Meet the Interns: A Look Back at Summer and Forward to the Fall 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 Perfection is not Humanly Possible: Learning to Overcome my Eating Disorder I grew up in an athletic family. My mom and older brother both played volleyball, and I played just about everything under the sun, eventually falling in love with basketball. By the time I was a freshman in high school, I was on three separate basketball teams. Basketball was my… Read More Send Silence Packing: Behind the Backpacks Active Minds’ Send Silence Packing® display has traveled the country for over a decade, reaching close to a million individuals, to end the silence that surrounds mental health and suicide and connect visitors with resources for support and action. After the pandemic forced us to end a 31-stop Send Silence… Read More Persevering Through 2021 As we entered 2021, many of us reflected on the difficulties that we were able to overcome in 2020. We had to learn how to navigate through a global pandemic. We sought institutional change across the nation, addressing the social injustices that exist within our communities. We missed out on… Read More Myths About Suicide Content Warning: Suicide, self-harm, trauma, psychiatric hospitalization. Two important things to know: Mental health is treatable. Suicide is preventable. When we all have the facts about mental health, we can better support the loved ones in our lives in getting the help they need. Unfortunately, while… Read More How to Take Care of Yourself in a Traumatizing Moment Today is just a start. We’re starting a new year, but it’s clear that national traumatizing moments are not to be left behind. It is important to be informed (as a friend once said, ‘do not be willfully ignorant’), but also to maintain balance to avoid harm to… Read More Setting Intentions, A Spin On New Year’s Resolutions “If you feel inspired to use the new year to help you reset or change habits: great. And yet, the old you has survived every terrible day, every hard thing, every awful circumstance, and every heartbreak you’ve ever felt. The old you is a fighter, and that’s worth… Read More Navigating Food and Body Image During the Holidays As the holiday season approaches and we reach the end of 2020, many of us start to experience mixed emotions. Over the years, the holidays have come to represent warmth and celebration, in addition to the signal of a fresh start. But the holiday season can also be a… Read More Ways to Overcome Stress During Finals It can be hard to study when a cat paces back and forth across your keyboard asking for attention, or when your dog literally takes a bite out of your homework because it fell off a cluttered desk onto the floor. The stress of final exams is real. What… Read More I See You: When Loved Ones are Hospitalized during COVID To anyone else supporting a family member or close loved one spending time in a psychiatric unit, rehabilitation center, or assisted living facility during this pandemic: I see you. I see the hard conversations, the tears, the fact that every answer just stirs up 12 more questions: Do they have… Read More Self-care in a New Normal Self-care looks different for everyone. Some find inner peace by practicing mindfulness, and others enjoy writing their thoughts and feelings in a journal. Regardless of your self-care regimen, we can all agree that the pandemic has changed the way we take care of ourselves. Prior to the pandemic, I would… Read More 30 / 49
Perfection is not Humanly Possible: Learning to Overcome my Eating Disorder I grew up in an athletic family. My mom and older brother both played volleyball, and I played just about everything under the sun, eventually falling in love with basketball. By the time I was a freshman in high school, I was on three separate basketball teams. Basketball was my… Read More
Send Silence Packing: Behind the Backpacks Active Minds’ Send Silence Packing® display has traveled the country for over a decade, reaching close to a million individuals, to end the silence that surrounds mental health and suicide and connect visitors with resources for support and action. After the pandemic forced us to end a 31-stop Send Silence… Read More
Persevering Through 2021 As we entered 2021, many of us reflected on the difficulties that we were able to overcome in 2020. We had to learn how to navigate through a global pandemic. We sought institutional change across the nation, addressing the social injustices that exist within our communities. We missed out on… Read More
Myths About Suicide Content Warning: Suicide, self-harm, trauma, psychiatric hospitalization. Two important things to know: Mental health is treatable. Suicide is preventable. When we all have the facts about mental health, we can better support the loved ones in our lives in getting the help they need. Unfortunately, while… Read More
How to Take Care of Yourself in a Traumatizing Moment Today is just a start. We’re starting a new year, but it’s clear that national traumatizing moments are not to be left behind. It is important to be informed (as a friend once said, ‘do not be willfully ignorant’), but also to maintain balance to avoid harm to… Read More
Setting Intentions, A Spin On New Year’s Resolutions “If you feel inspired to use the new year to help you reset or change habits: great. And yet, the old you has survived every terrible day, every hard thing, every awful circumstance, and every heartbreak you’ve ever felt. The old you is a fighter, and that’s worth… Read More
Navigating Food and Body Image During the Holidays As the holiday season approaches and we reach the end of 2020, many of us start to experience mixed emotions. Over the years, the holidays have come to represent warmth and celebration, in addition to the signal of a fresh start. But the holiday season can also be a… Read More
Ways to Overcome Stress During Finals It can be hard to study when a cat paces back and forth across your keyboard asking for attention, or when your dog literally takes a bite out of your homework because it fell off a cluttered desk onto the floor. The stress of final exams is real. What… Read More
I See You: When Loved Ones are Hospitalized during COVID To anyone else supporting a family member or close loved one spending time in a psychiatric unit, rehabilitation center, or assisted living facility during this pandemic: I see you. I see the hard conversations, the tears, the fact that every answer just stirs up 12 more questions: Do they have… Read More
Self-care in a New Normal Self-care looks different for everyone. Some find inner peace by practicing mindfulness, and others enjoy writing their thoughts and feelings in a journal. Regardless of your self-care regimen, we can all agree that the pandemic has changed the way we take care of ourselves. Prior to the pandemic, I would… Read More
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