It s Mental Health Awareness Month, and this May especially, Litehouse Wellness continues to put the men in mental health.
The group started as a way to reach out to Black men in Dallas; participants in the yoga sessions called broga carry some form of pain or trauma, which isn t unusual. As the organization notes on its website, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that Black men in America live seven years less than other races on average and suicide is the third leading cause of death among Black men.
Sherri Doucette, a doula, yoga and meditation instructor, founded Litehouse Wellness in 2017, almost two years after losing her husband to gastro-esophageal cancer. Doucette and her husband, Baba, got further in touch with their spirituality and holistic living following his diagnosis in 2015. It was his dream to go into communities of color and help men get more serious about their health and talk about what’s on their minds in a safe space. He never
Express Yourself with Chalk Art aims to reduce stress. Author: Megan Rivers Updated: 8:09 AM EDT May 19, 2021
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. May is Mental Health Awareness month and let’s face it, the last year has been taxing on us all one way or another. Sometimes talking out our emotions, thoughts, or feelings is difficult.
One local non-profit is giving you another option, color therapy! Stars Performing Arts is hosting an “Express Yourself with Chalk Art” event Saturday where you can color in or outside of the lines. Being oral is something that a lot of people have challenges with. So, we figured we d make it to where they can just write down and express ourselves with chalk, and it ll be fun. It ll be colorful, and they can feel proud and good to look back on something that they created for themselves, said Tamika Harris-Russell, Founder and President of Stars Performing Arts.
After two months of watching their brother recover from multiple gunshot wounds suffered during a mental health crisis where a Chatham Police officer shot him, sisters Sunshine Clemons and Shawnaci Schroeder took to social media this week to speak out for their brother, Gregory Small Jr. It s Mental Health Awareness Month and we really want to highlight changes that are needed in our society,” said Clemons, who is the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Springfield. “We really need a mental health crisis response option other than the police.”
While the sisters hope talking publicly about their family’s recent experience will start productive conversations about mental health and bring awareness to how mental health crisis calls are handled, the family’s primary objective is getting the aggravated assault charge brought against Small dropped.
If you’re a Jewish educator, I know what you were doing last week.
It’s Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s also Jewish American Heritage Month. Shavuot starts on Sunday evening. We’re also entering the last month of the academic year, with many congregational and community schools already immersed in graduation ceremonies. You were busy planning and teaching and preparing for the end of what has been an exhausting and especially challenging year.
If you’re a Jewish educator, I know what you were thinking about and planning for… and then everything changed.
The news coming out of Israel over the last few days is tragic. Over the last few days, those of us outside of the Middle East have been bombarded with images from Tel Aviv, Gaza, Sheik Jarrah, the Kotel, Ashkelon… The devastation of these events as seen on screens is nothing compared to the suffering and the fear being felt by the inhabitants of the region.