The Parentologist Founder Takes Over Insta Stories

This week for #FreeYourMindFriday, Dr. Kim Van Dusen, LMFT, RPT, and founder of The Parentologist w/ Dr. Kim, took over our Instagram stories to talk about mental health + wellness. Check out her bio below! Dr. Kim Van Dusen, LMFT, RPT is a mom of two young children and the CEO/Owner/Founder of The Parentologist w/Dr.Kim, a Southern California-based family and …

Kamberli Shares Her Story

This week for #WarriorWednesday, Kamberli, a wife, mother, mental health advocate, and health and fitness guru, shared her mental health journey. In 2015, shortly after having my first baby, I experienced Postpartum depression. Luckily it was fairly mild and easily treated with medication, and I was off of them within 9 months. Fast forward to 2017, I had my second …

There is Always Light in the Darkness

This week has been a tough week for me and my family. My mom’s cancer has progressed to stage 4 and the news has been heartbreaking. The doctors are giving her 9 to 12 months to live. Writing that and reading that statement is unbearable. My mom has been struggling lately with this news, I mean who wouldn’t? To know …

1N5 Promotes Teacher Wellness with Marr-Cook

As part of an ongoing teacher wellness initiative, 1N5 is working with Marr-Cook’s Wellness Warriors to promote teacher wellness. The teachers at Marr-Cook have continued using their Be Well board to spread wellness resources, and they have also recently been posting a weekly self-care choice board to help give staff ideas for self-care activities. One staff member involved in the …

1N5 Offers Free Sources of Strength Program to Local Schools

Sources of Strength is a universal suicide prevention program designed to build socioeconomic protective influences around youth and reduce the likelihood that vulnerable youth and young adults will become suicidal. This program supports student wellbeing, strengthens youth-adult connections, enhances positive student coping behaviors, reduces the risk of suicide and violence, reduces bullying behavior, and increases school belonging and resilience. Thanks …

PTSD Survivor Takes over Insta

This week for #freeyourmindfriday, Jill took over our Instagram stories to talk about mental health and erasing the stigma. Check out her bio below! My name is Jill, I’m a wife, a mother, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a self-care advocate. I’ve struggled with depression, anxiety & PTSD for my entire adult, teen, and early adolescence life. It used to …

You Are a Beautiful Work in Progress

We are all a work in progress. No one has it figured out, everyone is constantly learning and growing and changing. It’s really easy to beat ourselves up for being a work in progress and for not having it all together. But how beautiful is it to realize that you don’t have to be in this space of self-criticizing forever? …

Find the Best Version of You

One of my favorite things about my journey of self-discovery and self-care is the process of finding the best version of myself. I’ve been writing this blog for about a year now, and as I continue writing, I continue learning more and more about who I am and what I need. I started writing this blog when I was fairly …