These Guys Shared What It Really Means to Be Mentally Healthy
Everyday men share their definitions of a healthy mind. May 27, 2021
If you re trying to make healthy changes when it come to your body, you can do simple things like eat right,
exercise daily, sleep better, and drink water (always hydrate!). Stay committed to these habits and your body will begin to shed fat, gain muscle, and overall become healthier. It takes work, but it’s relatively straightforward at the end of the day.
But what do you to get fitter when it comes to your mind? Since mental wellness is so personal and
Oakland, CA (PRWEB) May 26, 2021 The Ever Forward Club, the nonprofit organization that is building character and changing lives, is proud to announce the
10 Mindful Books to Inspire You This Year
What’s on your reading list for 2021? To get you started, here are 10 books (and three podcasts) that help us reflect, celebrate, practice, and find balance.
Sarah Wilson • Dey St.
Anyone who read Sarah Wilson’s
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, her remarkable 2018 memoir about shifting our approach to anxiety and mental illness, will have high expectations for this new book. Her goal, she writes, was to find a way to talk about the feeling that “Something is not right. We’re not living life right. To try to grasp such a pain, to find the beginning and end, is like trying to bite your own teeth.” Instead of grasping too hard, then, she bravely explores what feels so wrong in her unforgettably wholehearted way. The common link among our personal, social, and global struggles climate chaos, environmental destruction, local and global conflict, and our inability to come together to solve any of it boils down, Wilson finds, to
Taking Off Our Masks, Conquering Blursday, and Other Good News
Get inspired by what’s happened lately in the world of mindfulness.
Playing Around
When his daughter Harper was four, G Cody QJ Goldberg realized most playgrounds just aren’t accessible. Harper uses a walker, and the wood chips at the playground got stuck in the wheels before she could even reach the play equipment. Her family founded Harper’s Playground, a nonprofit “driven by the vision of a world in which no one is left out,” according to their website.
To make playgrounds radically inclusive, Goldberg recommends “three levels of inviting,” meaning the space should be physically, socially, and emotionally welcoming to all ages and abilities. Spiral walkways allow wheelchair and walker access. Slides are extra wide so a care-giver and a child can go together. Before the pandemic, workshops were offered to help others create accessible playgrounds, and in the decade since Portland, Oregon-based HP began