This week has been amazing. It feels like one of those weeks that starts a shift in life. For the first time in a long time, I’ve felt happy with everything I’ve done the whole week. It started with being on vacation with people I love in a place that’s calm and beautiful. Then, after weeks of moving between two …
Dr. Ann-Louise Lockhart, PsyD, ABPP of A New Day Pediatric Psychology is back with a new video on taking care of your physical health alongside your mental health. She shares how the pandemic has impacted her daily movement, including little things like moving around between therapy sessions, getting up to walk down the hall, moving around her office, etc. Since …
Since my mom’s diagnosis of cancer, I always felt like I had lost pieces of myself. Since she passed away, I know for sure I have lost pieces of myself. I feel less motivated, I feel less joy, less excitement, and less gratitude for life itself. This journey has been a confusing one for me. Simple tasks become really, really …
On Saturday, June 12th, 1N5 attended J2FIT’s Cincinnati Fitness Fest bringing awareness to mental health and suicide prevention. The event started with a morning of workouts geared toward any fitness level and wrapped up with a social festival with food, drinks, music, and raffles. Proceeds from the Fitness Fest benefitted 1N5 and our mission to prevent suicide by erasing the …
This week, I’m going on a much-needed vacation. As I write this, I’m actually in the car on the way to the lake house. I haven’t taken time off since October of 2020. Since then, as I’ve talked about in the past, I’ve been working approximately 70 hours every week. Roughly 40 of those have been working in the service …
This week for #freeyourmindfriday, Kevin Hyland, a Cincinnati native and former UC football player, took over our Insta stories to talk about mental health. Check out his bio below! My name is Kevin Hyland. I’m 28 years old, living on the east side of Cincinnati in Oakley. I am from the westside/price hill area. I went to Elder High School …
This weekend we got to celebrate the life of my mom. We celebrated life in the most beautiful way. Typically, when people die there is a wake, a funeral and a repass. My mom was sure that she wanted none of that. My mom wanted a party where people could celebrate the life she lived. I’m so happy we were …
Life is short—too short to spend time and energy on things that don’t serve us or our goals and morals. For a very long time, I believed that in order to be successful and to be happy, I had to follow a certain plan. I had to work my way up, pay my dues, live in service of other people’s …
On Saturday, June 5th, 1N5 attended National Trails Day at Cincinnati Nature Center. We provided mindfulness training sessions, mental health education literature, and resources for hikers. Thanks to the Cincinnati Nature Center for making mental health a priority!
This week, the Cincinnati Public Schools Summer Scholars program kicked off, and 1N5 provided education at three schools. On Wednesday, June 2nd, 1N5 worked with 1st-3rd grade students at Rees E. Price to learn about Sources of Strength. On Thursday, June 3rd, 1N5 educated 7th and 8th-grade students at SCPA on self-care and tapping into strengths during difficult times. 1N5 …
