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 …
Take Time to Focus on Your Mental Health Journey
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so to kick it off, I want to talk a little bit about my own mental health journey and how my self-care practice has impacted it. In spring, 2019, I was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder, which means I experience periods of mania and depression. For me, that looks like weeks at a time …
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 …
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 …
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 …
School Psychology Grad Student Takes Over Insta
This week for #freeyourmindfriday, Sandhya, a grad student and mental health advocate studying school psychology, took over our Insta stories to talk about mental health and healing. Check out her bio below! Hi! I’m Sandhya, but you can call me Sands! I’m 25 years old, a mental health advocate, and I’m from India. I love to read, I want to …
Listen to Your Body. It Knows What it Needs.
Our bodies are incredible machines. They’re unbelievably powerful, but we have to make sure we’re taking care of them to ensure that they continue functioning as they should. After all, we only get one. For a long time, I ignored what my body needed and tried to power through on minimal sleep and minimal food. Throughout most of high school …
Anxiety + PTSD Survivor Takes Over Insta
This week for #freeyourmindfriday, Lindsey Graves, who lives with anxiety, panic and PTSD, took over our Insta stories to talk about coping with anxiety disorders. Check out her bio below! After being diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, panic, and PTSD, the six years of suffering began. It was September 2014, I was 21, a junior in college and just witnessed …
Eating Disorder Survivor Takes Over Insta
This week for #freeyourmindfriday, Meagan Connley, a mental health advocate and eating disorder survivor, took over our Instagram stories to talk about mental health and recovery. Check out her bio below! Last week, 1N5 shared my story of living with anxiety and having lived with depression and eating disorders. Now, I’m taking over their Insta stories to talk more about …
Marriage + Family Therapist Takes Over Insta
This week for #freeyourmindfriday, Emily Sanders, LMFT, took over our Instagram stories to talk about mental health and therapy. Check out her bio below! Hi! My name is Emily and I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of California. I practice privately in Orange County, and I absolutely love what I do. I’ve been practicing since 2012, …