Self-Care Guest Blog by Meg
Hello! My name is Meg, and I’m a senior at the University of Cincinnati. I am planning on receiving my degree in psychology with certificates in Deaf studies and pre-art therapy. I hope to continue my studies with graduate school in a few years. Senior year has not been an easy one, and with the […]
Self-Care Guest Blog by Nancy
At 1N5 we talk about self-care every day. How do we educate our audiences on how to take better care of themselves? It is a topic that is always on my mind. I try to make it a priority for myself to include some form of self-care every day. Sometimes I succeed and sometimes I […]
Self-Care Guest Blog by Christine
Christine Browner is the mom of 5 kiddos, wife to an amazing man, rare disease and mental health advocate, nurse, and Program Manager at 1N5. I kind of feel the same way about the word self-care as I’ve felt about the word pivot since the start of the pandemic. Way overused! I get the importance […]
Self-Care Guest Blog by Erin
Hi! My name is Erin Horn and I’m excited to be the guest self-care blogger today. I’ve been with 1N5 since summer of 2018 and I primarily work on our youth programs and prevention and wellness trainings. As I have grown along with 1N5, my knowledge around wellness has also expanded and grown. I am […]
Dr. Finch Discusses Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder on #FreeYourMindFriday
With a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Dr. Hayden Finch is passionate about understanding and treating schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other severe and persistent mental illnesses. In addition to developing outpatient and residential treatment programs for severe mental illness in graduate school, she was involved in mental health policy and legislation […]
Hold Onto Your Small Moments of Joy
Writing this blog post, I am sitting on the waterfront of Alexandria, VA, watching the life of Washington, DC right across the water and I thought about all the life happening all around us that we constantly watch pass us by. And then I felt sadness for all of those who couldn’t see the beauty […]
A Self-Love Letter to Myself
I have been going through a lot of changes lately, including a career change and moving into a new apartment. While moving, I stumbled across a letter I wrote to myself my freshman year of college. During orientation, we were told to write these letters to our future selves with our hopes and dreams and […]
Local Therapist Takes Over Our Insta to Share Her Story
The local therapist behind the Insta account, @ResiliencyinBloom takes over our Gram stories this week and shares how she found her calling to “travel” along with others through their mental health journeys. Hi All- My name is Ashton and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the Cincinnati area, working primarily with teenagers and adults. […]
Relinquishing Control, Trusting the Universe
by Ivy from Beautifully Simply You Raise your hand if you are someone who likes things done on your timeline, and absolutely no other timeline other than yours. My hand is definitely one of the highest in the room! So many of us, including myself, are impatient and want things done how we want them […]
Your Social Media Doesn't Define You
Social media can be a good and a bad thing. Social media can help a lot of us connect with people we may not otherwise connect with including old friends, colleagues, prospective leads on careers, and others who are feeling the same way as us. Social media can be great to allow us to feel […]
