New Year, New You: Tips for living well in 2017

New Year, New You: Tips for living well in 2017

This blog was created by seven fantastic women who are hoping to share some practical wellness tips with you. We hope you will be able to relate and maybe even incorporate some of the suggestions into your everyday life! Many thanks to our community of advocates, volunteers and encouragers! We’ve added some encouraging picture messages for you to […]

#GIVINGTUESDAY

#GIVINGTUESDAY

From “stuffing turkey” to “stuff getting”, our national day of Thanksgiving is immediately followed by two days of a rampant frenzy of consumer hand-to-hand combat known as Black Friday, which has spilled over to Cyber Monday. The splurge and binge of those days created the perfect conditions for a change of pace. We needed a […]

Creating Art Journal Pages

Creating Art Journal Pages

I STILL MATTER’S MISSION IS TO FOSTER MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALING THROUGH ART AND CREATIVE EXPRESSION. Art journaling is fun and it’s something anyone can do! Journaling is a great coping skill and puts us in place where we can slow down our breathing and become more present. These photos are from our most recent […]

Addiction and Mental Illness | Guest blog

Addiction and Mental Illness | Guest blog

Self-medication is a very common problem among people with mental illness. In people with bipolar disorder, roughly 56% had struggled with addiction at some point in their lives. When self-medication leads to addiction, the effects can become very dangerous and detrimental. Self-medication with substance abuse most often aggravates the symptoms after a short period of […]