Mental Health Resources in Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, & Winona Counties
Week 2: Reach out: Help is within reach. Key messages and actions It is important to find the help that is right for you when your mental health feels off. Hope and healing can come from many places and in many forms to get the support that you need. Talking about the resources available across… Continue Reading Suicide Prevention Awareness Month – Reach Out
Week 1: Learn the warning signs: Hope begins with awareness. Key messages and actions We all have mental health and it’s as essential to a person’s life as physical health. Mental health (https://www.samhsa.gov/mental-health) includes our emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing. It affects how we think, feel, and act, and shapes how we handle stress, relate… Continue Reading Suicide Prevention Awareness Month – Learn the Warning Signs
When children leave the nest — whether it’s to start college, move across the country for a dream job or flex their newfound independence as adults — the transition for parents can be challenging. The article shared here from Mayo Clinic Press will help in understanding what Empty Nest Syndrome is, how to prepare, and… Continue Reading Empty Nest Syndrome
If you’re a Veteran in crisis or concerned about one, contact the Veterans Crisis Line to receive 24/7 confidential support. You don’t have to be enrolled in VA benefits or health care to connect. To reach responders, Dial 988 then Press 1, chat online at VeteransCrisisLine.net/Chat, or text 838255. Sharing from the VA Newsletter, Rachel Carpenter,… Continue Reading Blue Star Support Circles
Feeling anxious is a normal part of life. Many people worry about things such as health, money, school, work, or family. But anxiety disorders involve more than occasional worry or fear. For people with these disorders, anxiety does not go away, is felt in many situations, and can get worse over time. What is generalized… Continue Reading What is anxiety?
NAMI In the early 1970s, small groups of family members, nationwide, began to gather around kitchen tables searching for support and understanding of their mentally ill family members, more often than not, young adult children. The majority of those meeting together were moms blamed by the medical profession that their parenting skills caused their child’s… Continue Reading Learn about NAMI Southeast Minnesota
Learning about our mental health and what we need to support our wellbeing takes time. It’s important to make mental health an ongoing priority in our lives, take care of ourselves, know when to get help, and share our own stories about mental health when possible. Prioritizing self-care and emotional wellbeing as part of your… Continue Reading Embrace your mental health journey
Find mental health support in tough times When your mental health is off, it is important to find the help that is right for you. Where you go for help will depend on what is happening within your life. Often the best place to start is to talk with those that you already have… Continue Reading Find mental health support in tough times
Self-connection, or self-care, is about finding practices that help you thrive, and it can include a range of things. It takes purposeful effort, but it can help you maintain or improve your daily mental wellbeing. It can be helpful to think of it as taking time to connect with yourself and care for yourself as… Continue Reading Nurture your well-being
Mental health is our ability to engage with our emotions, thoughts, interactions with others, and the world around us. Mental health affects how we think, feel, and act every day. Just like with our physical health, we can do things that make us mentally healthier and happier. When you feel mentally well, you’re more able… Continue Reading Explore your Mental Health
NAMI Minnesota has collaborated with the National Library of Medicine Minnesota State Advisor Group to create a Crisis Resource handout that meets readability standards for medical information. We have updated our 2024 Crisis Resource Handout with these standards and have had it translated into Spanish, Hmong, Somali, and Ojibwe. Click on the links below to… Continue Reading Crisis Resource Handout in English, Spanish, Hmong, Somali, and Ojibwe
Men need to know it’s okay to be men. Men need to know it’s okay to be male. Men need to know it’s okay to not be okay. It’s okay to ask for help, to talk about feelings, to break down, to go to therapy, to be vulnerable, to need support, to cry. It’s okay.… Continue Reading Men need to know it’s okay