TW: Suicide Loss This week for #WarriorWednesday, Caroline McKeown was back with another new episode of her #DearCaroline vlog. This week, she’s talking about valuing your friendships. Recently, a friend of hers almost lost her life to suicide, and it made her think about what her friendships mean to her. With limited in-person connection right now, Caroline recommends reaching out …
Keep Holding Onto Hope
Life is truly a rollercoaster. It’s full of excitement, highs, fear, lows, uncertainty and regret. Those are probably all some of the feelings you’ve had, before, during or after a rollercoaster ride. Right now my rollercoaster is in one of those low spots. It’s been so frustrating to watch my mom fight pancreatic cancer for the last year and a …
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. …
Choose to Start Despite Your Fears
I woke up this morning like, “oh crap, I don’t know what to write about for tomorrow’s blog.” I still really don’t. I am feeling less than inspirational. But I think the really cool thing about blogging or journaling is that there is a flow to it. Once I start writing, some idea just starts to come and I start …
1N5 Provides Mental Health 101 to Mercy Montessori
On Friday, January 22nd, 1N5 provided an interactive Mental Health 101 education course to the 7th-grade students at Mercy Montessori. During the course, students learned about different mental health disorders and important skills for maintaining mental wellness. This course was part of an ongoing partnership between 1N5 and Mercy Montessori. Through the spring, 1N5 will be presenting on various topics …
Thank You for Being You
Thank you for being you. Thank you for being who you are. We have all likely heard the quote, “the world needs more of you” 100 times, but it is so true. The world needs more of you and all the beauty that you add to it. This week, I did a presentation where for the second time ever on …
Set Boundaries to Avoid Burnout
We have had to deal with so much lately—not only as a country, but as individuals, too. On the national level, we’ve seen riots at the Capitol, National Guard deployed to D.C. in preparation for Inauguration, economic downturn, and COVID raging on. Plus, we have to deal with anything going on in our individual lives. Maybe a family member is …
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 …
It’s Okay to Start Again—You Are Recovering & Growing
I know I am not alone when I say I struggled with the “supposed to’s”. It was my birthday week, so it was supposed to be a great week. And for the most part, it was. But it really all felt like it came crashing down the day after when I felt really self-conscious about a lot of things. My …