Meet Logan, who is sharing her story of living with Bipolar Depression. She started feeling really down during her freshman year of high school and began pushing people away. She recalls spending more and more time alone in her room and less and less time doing the things that used to make her happy, like playing tennis or hanging out …
Be Patient With Yourself When You Are Struggling
I’m going through a lot. Please be patient with me. Going through this experience with my mom’s cancer has changed me. In some ways, it has taken things from me. One of those things is often my positivity. In some ways, her diagnosis has made me stronger and made me appreciate life more. But in more ways, it has unfortunately …
Forgive Yourself When You Mess Up
It’s so easy to go through our lives and forget what we have in front of us. It’s so easy to sweat the small stuff and forget the great stuff. We will often experience loss and spend some time reflecting on how life is too short and how we should hug our loved ones more and tell them we love …
Daniel Shares His #iAM1N5 Journey…
Meet Daniel Henderson, who is sharing his journey of living with alcoholism, PTSD, major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. He remembers being restless as a kid and using sports and outdoor activities to release some of his energy. He was diagnosed with ADHD at a young age and remembers not liking the way he felt while on various ADHD …
Make Your Mental Health Come First on Your To-Do List
We all have 24 hours in a day. How are you choosing to use that time? Wow—so much pressure on what should be a motivating statement. When I think about 24 hours, it gives me anxiety, because there are somehow never enough hours in the day to get everything done. The days I work from home, I get so consumed …
You Are Doing the Best You Can, and That’s Enough
I was at a restaurant called HopDoddy in California and overheard a heated conversation between a daughter and her parents. She was trying to plead with them to have just one semester that she could get all A’s and just one B. And her parents spent a while almost degrading her for getting a B, that they thought she was …
Delaney Shares Her #iAM1N5 Journey…
Meet Delaney Sprague, a Xavier University student who is sharing her story of living with anxiety, depression and borderline ADHD behaviors. She remembers having anxious feelings since she was a child, especially when it comes to swimming competitively. Her fear of failure in competing began to expand into other aspects of her life. After opening up about her experience, her …
The Beauty in Uncomfort
To get something you’ve never had, you’ve got to do something you’ve never done. My coach used to say that to us all the time. Back then, for me, that quote embodied a chase for perfection and a need for validation, but now this quote really rings true to me as I embark on my longest trip ever by myself. …
Appreciating Delayed Gratification
So many of us often seek out instant gratification. We want results and we want them immediately. It happens when we go to the gym to get more fit and get frustrated when we don’t see progress in a few days. It happens when we start therapy and expect to figure out our entire struggles after just one hour session, …
Jay Shares His #iAM1N5 Journey…
Meet Jay Shifman, who shared his #iAM1N5 journey for #warriorwednesday. Jay has experienced addiction and is now in recovery, coming up on 10 years of sobriety this spring! Read his story below, and watch the video to hear him talk about his experiences! I’ve never met an addict that wasn’t fighting it in some way. Addiction is a destructive illness …