Happy Friday! For part 3 of expanding our emotional vocabulary, let’s explore the wonderful emotion of calm. 🙂 CALM could be… Carefree Clear Collected Comfortable Composed Cool Easygoing Gentle Harmonious Peaceful Placid Relaxed Restful Serene Soothed Stable Still Temperate Tranquil
by Kate Fitch Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, pushed forward by Representative Tim Murphy, is ANTI-RECOVERY. SAMHSA has established a working definition of recovery that we at the Network stand behind. It calls recovery “a process of change
It’s almost here! Colorado Gives Day is next Tuesday, December 8th! Schedule your donation now or contribute on the 8th, either way The Network benefits! Click the image below..
by Kate Fitch, Amanda Kearney-Smith, and Jennifer Hill Just because Thanksgiving is over doesn’t mean we can’t still give thinks! Here’s a list of ALL the things we’re thankful for (that we could think of)! Relationships Experience of love Experience
by Kate Fitch Earlier this week I talked about handling Thanksgiving when you’re in recovery from disordered eating. Today I’m going to talk about it in the context of recovering from alcoholism. Lots of Thanksgiving celebrations include drinking as well
by Kate Fitch It’s a challenge. No matter if you are in recovery or not, how long you have been in recovery if you have, and how supportive/understanding your family is or isn’t, Thanksgiving is tough. Here are a few
by Kate Fitch The Murphy Bill seeks to expand HIPAA privacy exceptions to an unreasonable extent for people with mental illness. Privacy laws as they exist now already allow for the disclosure of protected health information under emergency circumstances and
For week three of our “Colorado Gives Campaign” featuring our volunteers, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kate Fitch. Kate has been with the organization only for 5 months devoting roughly ten hours per week to our marketing and communications,
by Kate Fitch One major emphasis in the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act is the increase in funding toward, and financial incentive to States for implementing, “Assisted Outpatient Treatment.” This is less euphemistically known as Involuntary Outpatient Commitment.
by Kate Fitch Today’s post is about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). OCD seems to be a common joke when someone seems tidy, or the subject of photo series’ on the internet depicting things with bothersome asymmetry. These might look familiar: