This story hits close to home, as my dad was a HS principal most of his career…& most of the contacts we coordinate programs w, are principals as well. If you remember not too long ago, we lost Greg Eells – UPenn’s head of counseling, considered to be the country’s resiliency expert, to suicide. How …
03/16/2022 Middle School Principal Dies By Suicide On Campus Read More »
With March Madness approaching, felt it was impt to touch on a story at the intersection of bball & MH. Enter Providence head coach, Ed Cooley. 3+ yrs ago, I’d not heard of Cooley. I’d been working in pro sports before my crash, not paying attn to college. Cooley was previously the head coach of …
This past wk was a whirlwind. Our Schools Director, & I went back up to a HS in Fredonia, NY, to work w students, after we’d worked w their teachers previously. Pic of younger kiddos here but I’ll explain. We had from 8am – 2:30…the entire day, to do programming w ALL of the HS …
Even tho the “events” of the last 2yrs are beginning to slow down, & “normalcy” appears to be returning…it doesn’t FEEL like that. W that background, I got the awful news last nt that a friend/classmate from HS had tragically passed. Will come back to that. We’ve lived in fear the last 2yrs. Whatever ur …
03/12/2022 With Time And Practice We Can Begin To Feel Our Emotions Again Read More »
Beautiful words in that quote box written by Harry Miller, a redshirt junior at OSU taken from a long post he made via Twitter, opening up abt his journey toward improving his quality of life & tackling his MH. I say beautiful for two reasons – one, the line itself is eloquent: how we often …
03/12/2022 They Are Hard To See, And They Are Easy To Hide, But They Sure Do Hurt Read More »
Yesterday it was announced that Falcons WR, Calvin Ridley, would be suspended by the NFL for all of the 2022 season, forfeiting his $11 million dollar salary, for having bet on games (NFL games) back last November. Ridley bet (according to the records discussed) $1,500, total, on something that could potentially cost him $11 million …
03/09/2022 Don’t Forget Mental Health In Ridley Gambling Case Read More »
After what was a difficult week for mental health on a public stage….w a number of high profile losses…I figured this was an important topic to address as we close out a Sunday. Those who we choose to invest in the most – invest the most in themselves. And in a way that line is …
03/07/2022 Those Who We Invest In The Most, Choose To Invest The Most In Themselves Read More »
This realization both fascinates & scares me. I remember when we first formed this movement w some of the founding members: Tyler Hamilton was one of them. Tyler was a teammate of Lance Armstrong, winning the Tour de France 3x in a row. Based on his success he was offered a chance to ring the …
03/06/2022 Finding Acceptance And Not Struggling After Big Moments In Life Read More »
It’s a pretty deflating day when there are 2 deaths, 1 confirmed a suicide, & 1 where all signed sadly point to it – to the youngest & what appeared to be brightest lights among us – in this case (first slide); the 36 yr old brother (Charles) of Glee star, Darren Criss. Second➡️, the …
Not an easy topic, but one I thought was impt to address. I grew up in the the Persian Gulf War era – where we were updated thru grainy nighttime footage of warheads being launched. Most news stations had to share videos…on what seemed like diff planets, let alone countries. We felt far removed from …
03/02/2022 Chaos And War Around Us Can Deeply Impact Us Emotionally Read More »
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