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News and stories about youth mental wellness
A Guide for Suicide Awareness
Want to learn more about Suicide Prevention? Here’s the guide for you and your loved ones to hold on to
World Suicide Prevention Day
Learn more about the importance of World Suicide Prevention Day. Get to know its significance, risk factors and warning signs, how to stay prepared, and what to do during a crisis.
Nutrition’s Role in Mental Health
Learn about the relationship between what we eat and how we feel.
Compassion for Oneself and One’s Community
Compassion is an important part of health relationship-building as it strengthens connections built on empathy and understanding and fosters collaborative problem-solving. Compassion is something we can cultivate (or grow) and can practice towards ourselves, others, and our community.
The Benefits of Exercise on Mental Health
Everyone is familiar with the physical benefits of exercise—lower rates of obesity and cardiovascular disease, better health outcomes, and much more. The benefits of exercise on mental health are just as important but aren’t as widely known. Regardless, incorporating exercise into one’s daily routine is a simple way to improve mental health and build healthy habits.
LymeLight Foundation x My Good Brain
This past Saturday, My Good Brain had the honor of collaborating with the LymeLight Foundation on their Ninth Annual Grant Recipient Reception.
Helping Students Transition Back to School After Summer
The transition from summer to school is tough. Children and teenagers are bound to feel overwhelming volumes of change — which is why it’s important to prioritize their mental health at this time.
Healthy Habits With Children
The younger your children are when they start developing healthy habits, the more consistent they’ll be able to keep up with them as they get older.
Growing The Love (Through Self-Care)
This Sunday, July 24, is International Self-Care Day. Self-care is vital for our wellbeing, but is often misunderstood. Learn about the importance of attending to our needs and the different ways to take care of all aspects of ourselves.
Youth Social Wellness
Everyone everywhere can benefit from paying more attention to their well-being. Physical and mental well-being is often intertwined so that when you are improving one aspect of your life, another aspect grows with it. See how you can improve your life and possibly the lives of people around you.
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, emphasizing the mental health challenges that underrepresented groups face and promoting action to support BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities.
The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health
Within the last decade, social media has fundamentally changed the way people interact and communicate with each other. While social media has created several exciting opportunities in connecting people around the world, it is still a relatively new phenomenon that is being widely studied. In particular, many researchers are interested in how social media affects the mental health of adolescents. Here’s what we know so far.
Yoga: Facilitating the Mind-Body Connection
Learn more about the mind-body connection and how the practice of yoga facilitates a strengthened awareness of ourselves and the world around us.
Youth Self-Care Ideas for the Summer
In this blog, we’ll share some self-care ideas that youth groups can explore during their free time these next few months. These ideas are designed to help kids and teens nurture their physical health, emotional wellbeing, creativity, and mindfulness.
Celebrating LGBTQ2+ Pride is Celebrating Mental Health
Learn more about how LGBTQ2+ Pride is mental health and discover ways to celebrate for yourself or in support of someone else.
May 2022 Recap
What a whirlwind of a month May has been! This year for Mental Health Awareness month, My Good Brain was able to feature both virtual and in-person events like never before.
Music and Mental Health
Music can reveal quite a lot about yourself and the people around you. Whether it’s relieving stress or bonding with peers, music is there for us all.
What does it mean to be resilient?
You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human.
— Lori Deschene
Teen Self-Esteem: What It Is, Why It’s Important & How to Support It
Learn more about self-esteem, why it’s important, and how to support the development of healthy self-esteem in teens (and yourself!).
Support Children’s Mental Health
My Good Brain provides resources for children’s mental health and wellness because of you. As a nonprofit organization, donations from people like you sustain our ability to create fun, engaging, and accessible arts-based healthy coping tools for children everywhere. If you believe in what we do and support our mission, please donate today.