Rick Allen and his wife,
Lauren Monroe, are longtime advocates of mental health awareness and activists in making psychological treatment accessible to people who need it.
Allen has long credited music and the support of his bandmates, friends and family with helping him overcome trauma of the 1984 car accident that cost him his left arm.
In a recent conversation with Q104.3 New York's Jim Kerr and Shelli Sonstein, the couple noted that Allen's recovery from that accident is constant and multi-faceted.
"We're really hands-on people, so we like to meet the people that we're helping," Monroe said of the couple's work on Project Resiliency. "We love to create programs around what we know is healing for us — around drumming and mindfulness and so many other modalities that help. It always helps us, and that's the big message we always send: How to help yourself is to be in service."