Happy #WarriorWednesday! Meet Meagan Connley, an introvert, highly sensitive person, cat mom, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend. She is sharing her #iAM1N5 journey of living with anxiety and her experience with depression and eating disorders. Meagan remembers her eating disorder starting in high school. Her parents noticed a change in her behavior and appearance, and they got help for …
Prioritize Yourself
As a society, we tend not to prioritize self-care and mental wellness. We are a career-focused people, and we typically let work take precedence over wellness. With all that has happened in the past year, though, that mentality is starting to change. I’ve noticed the change in my own life, especially over the past few weeks as my work has …
Sara Takes Over Insta Stories
This week for #freeyourmindfriday, Sara Spencer, a mom, wife, worship leader and lady boss took over our Instagram stories to talk about mental wellness. Check out her bio below! Hi! My name is Sara and I’m a stay-at-home mom and wife from Ohio. I’m a worship leader and I’m also in direct sales and lead a team of awesome ladies. …
Beautifully Broken Blogger Takes Over Insta
This week for #freeyourmindfriday, Sabi, a writer, YouTuber, podcaster, and the creator of the Beautifully Broken blog, took over our Insta stories to talk about mental health! Check out her bio below! August of 2019 I started my journey towards recovering from my mental illness that had taken over my life since the age of 13. Depression and Anxiety have …
UK Mental Health Blogger Takes Over Insta
This week for #freeyourmindfriday, Laura, a mental health blogger from the UK, took over our Instagram stories to talk about mental wellness. Check out her bio below! Hey! My name’s Laura and I’m a mental health, lifestyle and petite blogger from just outside London in the UK! I have been diagnosed with depression and anxiety and struggle with panic attacks. …
Creating Mental Wellness Routines in Uncertain Times for Caregivers
Join us January 7th, 2021, at 6 PM EST for a FREE webinar presented by 1N5, the Eating Recovery Center, and Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center with Dr. Ann-Louise Lockhart, PsyD, ABPP on creating mental wellness routines in uncertain times for parents, caregivers, and people in positions of support for adolescents and teens. Routines and daily practices are a large …
1N5 Provides Free QPR Training
In January, 2021, 1N5 and MindPeace are partnering to provide FREE virtual QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper training each week. QPR teaches three simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide: Question a person about suicide, Persuade the person to seek help, and Refer the person to appropriate resources. Although created specifically to detect and respond to …
Try to Stay Positive this New Year
This week for #WarriorWednesday, Caroline McKeown was back with a new episode of her #DearCaroline vlog. She talks about how to stay positive going into the new year by looking back and thinking about the good things that happened this year despite the negativity in the world. Caroline urges us not to go into 2021 with negative thoughts but to …
Children’s Book Author Takes Over Insta Stories
This week for #freeyourmindfriday, Kileah, author of A Kids Book About Depression, took over our Insta stories to share her mental health journey. Check out her bio below! Kileah is an Enneagram 2 and part-time mystic born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and is the author of A Kids Book About Depression. She was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and bipolar II …
It’s Okay to Struggle with Self-Confidence, But Still Give Yourself Compassion
A reminder to myself – I know it’s hard, but don’t be so hard on yourself. I saw this quote the other day that read, “While you’re being overly critical of yourself, someone is admiring your strength.” And I thought to myself, how absolutely true. My anxiety lately has been through the roof. I wrote about this last week, but …