Accepting Bipolar: 4 Tips To Living With It
Accepting Bipolar Disorder Is The First Step To Living With It Accepting bipolar mental illness can be a long process. It’s a common diagnosis and like any disability, learning to live with it and thrive takes skill. The stigma of having a mental illness is the first hurdle to overcome. How will people see me? […]
Tips To Stop The Epidemic of Despair Overdoses
The epidemic of despair overdoses topped 100,000 this year. What can you do to save yourself Despair overdoses is what I’m calling an unacceptable death rate that has more than doubled over the last few years. Over the last week, several people have forwarded me this article, 100,000 Americans died of overdoses this year. Just […]
Take The Gratitude Challenge To Connect
Why you need the gratitude challenge this year? We’re coming out of a long isolation of the Covid pandemic, and it’s still with many of us. We’ve lost our connections that kept us sane and (for many of us) secure in our recovery. We haven’t been about to meet up and hug each other. It’s […]
See The Art/Media Contest Poster Winner
The Art/Media Contest Poster Winner Jahzara Blake Is A Sophomore At North Port High School Jahzara Blake is the amazing High School Art/Media 2021 contest poster winner, hosted by ROR and sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sarasota Bay. We’re so excited to introduce you to her powerful work that blew us away for many […]
See Our Fabulous High School Art/Media Contest Runners’ Up
Spotlight on Art/Media Contest Runners’ Up We are so proud of our ROR and Rotary Club of Sarasota Bay High School Art/Media contest runners up. Our two extraordinary winners for positive mental health messaging chose videos as their media entries. Students from 10 high schools in Rotary District 6960 registered for the contest and read […]
Spotlight on FACEing Mental Illness Podcast
FACEing Mental Illness, a podcast and article series by award-winning journalist Carrie Seidman, is my favorite way to learn about interesting people who have lived experience with mental illness. Did you know that 50% of Americans will experience a mental illness during their lifetime? With some five to fifteen people family members impacted by every […]