During this engaging session of #MentalHealthMonday Elizabeth will help us learn:

• The true definition of service and how is it expressed in your life
• The importance of joy and fulfillment in wellbeing and as a roadmap for contribution
• Why sensitivity is a superpower
• How to identify characteristics of self-abandonment and self-responsive behavior

During this engaging session of #MentalHealthMonday Etel will help us learn:

• How depending on another person to change may encourage us to lose our identity
• The tools she used on her own healing journey and how she helps others today
• Ways to navigate a loved one’s addiction and recovery

Marisa Renee Lee has an eye-popping resume: Harvard grad, Wall Street whiz kid, staffer in the Obama Administration (She worked on racial equity and small business affairs, and helped lead its My Brother’s Keeper campaign for young men/boys of color). That’s the story that her bio tells, in part… but starting at age 13, she was also on a very different journey– she was also one of the primary caretakers for her mother, who lived with multiple sclerosis for twelve years and breast cancer for four before passing away in 2008. Marisa was twenty-six then. She spent fully half of her life caring for her mom, while still a half-formed person herself. The waves of grief that flowed from that experience have shaped her in indelible ways.

In her debut book, Grief is Love, Marisa unspools the story of her life with grief in all of its strange, surprising manifestations, offering up what she’s learned as a sort of compass for others navigating loss. She also laments the difficulty of Black people to access the physical/psychological safety required to be emotionally vulnerable and therefore grieve in full. Marisa remains no stranger to grief: she lost her young cousin to COVID last year, and she and her husband experienced the loss of a much wanted pregnancy. Sifting through her emotions around these traumas — personal and collective, racial and familial — Marisa arrives at a powerful conclusion: grief is our expression of unrequited love for those we’ve lost.

During this engaging session of #MentalHealthMonday Marisa will help us learn:

• How grief is our expression of unrequited love for those we’ve lost.
• Why grief “stages” and “timelines” are not only inaccurate; they’re unhelpful.
• How being a black woman shapes her grief experience 

A lot of people are in relationships where they put their focus and energy outside of themselves and onto another person—often at the expense of their physical, mental and spiritual health. The thing is, it’s easy to fall into a codependent relationship without even knowing it. And codependent relationships are not exclusive to another person. We can be codependent with work, money, media, and more. And once we’re in codependence, it can start to seem natural, like the only way to be in a relationship is to be all tangled up in each other or in whatever is outside of us. We can come to believe that there aren’t any alternatives. But there are. With awareness and patience and practice, we can learn to transform codependence into healthier behaviors that improve relationships in all aspects of our life and lead to a stronger, more rewarding sense of self. This presentation will help us learn how.

During this engaging session of #MentalHealthMonday Beverly will help us learn:

• What is codependency?
• How does codependency develop?
• Why are Substance Use and Codependency Often Intertwined?
• How Can We Recover from Codependency and Create Healthier Relationships and a Stronger Self?

Just as there is a progression of addiction, there is a progression of recovery. In fact, recovery is a healing journey that we actively participate in and influence. Our presenter, Jill Rathburn, has created a simple system called The 5 Stages of Healing to clearly show the steps involved in healing from an addiction (or any disease). Come and learn what stage you’re in, how to advance your healing journey, hear tips to overcome roadblocks, and develop a vision for your personal transformation.

During this engaging session of #MentalHealthMonday Jill will help us learn:

• How to advance our healing journey
• Tips to overcome roadblocks
• Develop a vision toward personal transformation

We all have innate divine power and it’s up to us to learn how to use it. Cam Kashani, Award-Nominated Intuitive Coach and Inspirational Speaker focused on Divine Feminine Embodiment, leads women to their true, authentic, core power. We’re excited to have her with us on Mental Health Monday telling her story and sharing her tips with us.

During this engaging session of #MentalHealthMonday Cam will help us learn:

• How addiction, abuse, and divorce helped her find her power
• To embrace our deeply rooted power
• How to collectively shift our energy