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Therapy and Me with Alia Andrews

“Therapy, for me, has always been there to catch me.” Q: When did you first enter therapy? I was in my early teens. My mom is a therapist. She wasn’t a therapist at the time, but back in the day

Wilder Hickney August 16, 2022August 16, 2022 Colorado Mental Wellness Network Blog Read more

The Therapy Tour

Therapy is a wonderful resource for people living and thriving with behavioral health conditions. However, it can be hard to know what kind of therapy is right for you. With hundreds of practices and specialties, finding the right therapy for

Wilder Hickney July 26, 2022 Colorado Mental Wellness Network Blog Read more

De-Stigmatizing the Self

In our last blog post, I opened up about my experience with self-stigma and the concept of “normal” – for years, I felt like I could not be “normal” or participate in society in the same ways that others did.

Wilder Hickney June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 Colorado Mental Wellness Network Blog Read more

Coping with Cognitive Distortions

“I am not my thoughts – my thoughts do not define me, nor do they always represent reality.” The most valuable realization I have had in my recovery has been learning about cognitive distortions. These are biased perspectives that we

Wilder Hickney March 15, 2022March 14, 2022 Colorado Mental Wellness Network Blog Read more

The Self-Care Complex

Morning routines, healthy eating, and the perfect meditation app – that’s what most of us think about now when we think about self-care. It often feels like there’s pressure from industries to have the perfect self-care routine down flat. Most

Wilder Hickney March 1, 2022March 2, 2022 Colorado Mental Wellness Network Blog, self care Read more

Living Between Diagnoses – By Wilder C. Hickney 

My name is Wilder Hickney (pronouns she/her or they/them). I am a recent addition to the Colorado Mental Wellness Network community! I work as a contracted consultant with the Network. I’m here to help spread CMWN’s mission of positivity and

Wilder Hickney December 13, 2021December 13, 2021 Colorado Mental Wellness Network Blog, Our Stories Read more

Becoming a Peer Specialist – Guest Post by Carrie Baatz

Peer supporters have walked a road through trauma, addiction, mental health conditions or other disabilities. We have made it to another side. On the road, we gained experiential knowledge – understanding you can’t learn from a textbook. Our stories give

CMWN July 11, 2018June 11, 2019 Colorado Mental Wellness Network Blog Read more

Finding the Right Diagnosis

Guest Post by Alex Salazar My name is Alex Salazar and I’ve been recently diagnosed with Schizoaffective Disorder. Since I was 15 I had the diagnosis of just Paranoid Schizophrenia. I am 21 years old now and on May 22

Aubrey Boggs June 13, 2018September 27, 2018 Colorado Mental Wellness Network Blog Read more

A Change is Gonna Come

by Aubrey Boggs, Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator   CONTENT NOTE: Death of parent     This year has been, in a word, difficult for me. I have found my mental health being pressed from every angle. In January, I had

Aubrey Boggs October 29, 2017October 31, 2017 self care, Uncategorized Read more

Why Mental Health Awareness Month?

Each May our community recognizes mental health awareness month, a tradition that has existed since 1949 in an effort to shed light on the “normalcy” of mental illness. (1)   Is it working? Hard to say. Granted we’ve moved away

Amanda Kearney-Smith May 1, 2017May 1, 2017 Colorado Mental Wellness Network Blog Read more
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