The High Human Cost of Policy Negligence and the Urgent Need for Reform — If you’ve never held vigil beside your child’s hospital bed following a suicide attempt, if you haven’t sacrificed weeks of work, desperately phoning facilities nationwide because your entire region offers no viable treatment options, if you’ve never spent years in sleep-deprived anxiety, fearing every night that your child might not…

In the quiet hallways of many schools, there’s a silent crisis echoing. — Rachel Miller, once a young individual grappling with her own mental health, understood this all too well. While the blackboards display math problems and history timelines, hidden stories of personal struggles go unnoticed. …

I made the mistake of reading some social media comments this morning for an article about mental health. The comments were riddled with opinions about how mental health must be a result of poor parenting. I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. It continues to fascinate me…

The worst of the four letter words — Ah, “sure.” On the surface, it seems like such an innocuous word, doesn’t it? It’s short, sweet, and to the point. But, for many of us, and certainly for me, the word “sure” sounds as grating as nails on a chalkboard. Brevity might be the soul of wit, but “Sure”…

Beyond Blogging: Cultivating a Collective Consciousness — When my children were born, much to my dismay, they did not come with manuals strapped to them leaving me having to figure it out as we went. To say I’ve had just as many crash and burn moments as celebrations may be a gross underestimation of my experience as…

The brain, a complex and fascinating organ, undergoes rapid and profound changes throughout childhood and adolescence. From the formation of synaptic connections to the pruning away of unused neural pathways, the early years of a person’s life lay the foundation for cognitive, emotional, and social development. By the time adolescence…

How to find higher quality mental health care. During Covid, people started to pay attention to mental health more, though, mental health has been an ignored epidemic long before the pandemic began. While it’s encouraging to see a movement to increase mental health professionals, we have to be cautious in remembering quality > quantity. Simply having more therapists…

Raising a Beautiful Mind is becoming a beacon of light for those raising children with mental health needs. Our publication is rapidly growing and becoming instrumental in helping parents and caregivers navigate the tricky waters of mental health, providing guidance, support and education along the way. I cannot emphasize enough…

In recent years, the teaching profession has experienced a seismic shift. Educators, often revered as the bedrock of societal progress and our children’s future, find themselves in an unenviably precarious position. Today’s classrooms aren’t just centers of academic learning; they have evolved into multifaceted environments where teachers play roles that…