Tag: mental health

Even with people in the public eye, most recently Meghan Markle, being more open about their mental health, there is still an insurmountable amount of shame, loneliness, and isolation surrounding it

Mental illness and suicide are still very stigmatized, most of the time no one wants to talk about it.

John Waite is one of the few candidates in memory to make mental health part of his platform. It is courageous because many people are afraid of mental health issues because they don't take the time to understand what mental illness is or how it affects our community. Ignorance of mental health and how it works has had devastating results all over the country and certainly in Spokane.

Given that our minds tend to focus on the past or on the future, mindfulness helps us learn to be in the here and now. Sometimes mindfulness can be better understood in terms of what it is not, which helped me “get it” better.