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From Monday, May 11, to Sunday, May 17, 2026, Period Poverty Awareness Week offers more than a date on the calendar. It is a moment to stop and confront a reality that affects millions of people around the world every month: the inability to access the menstrual products, education, hygiene facilities, healthcare, and dignity needed to manage a period safely. Continue reading “Period Poverty Awareness Week 2026: What It Means, Why It Matters, and Why We Should All Care”
National Prevention Week: Origins, Evolution, and Why It Still Matters
National Prevention Week serves as an annual moment for communities across the United States to come together and spotlight prevention strategies that reduce substance misuse and promote mental wellness. Born from decades of public health initiatives, the week has evolved into a multi-faceted movement that centers early intervention, evidence-informed practice, and community-led solutions. It is both a public education campaign and a call to collective action, asking individuals, families, schools, workplaces, and policymakers to make prevention an ongoing priority rather than an afterthought. Continue reading “National Prevention Week: Origins, Evolution, and Why It Still Matters”
April is over, but stress doesn’t clock out — here’s how to prepare and cope for the rest of the year.
The close of National Stress Awareness Month is a useful reminder that stress is ongoing, seasonal, and often predictable. Instead of treating stress management like a one-off public-health notice, think of it as an ongoing practice: small, regular actions that compound over weeks and months to change your baseline resilience. The difference between reacting to stress and preparing for it isn’t dramatic effort; it’s steady choices that preserve energy, sharpen focus, and create room for recovery when life intensifies. If you treat the next eight months as a series of manageable experiments rather than a sprint to perfection, you’ll find the year feels less like a series of surprises and more like a sequence you can influence. Continue reading “April is over, but stress doesn’t clock out — here’s how to prepare and cope for the rest of the year.”
Finding Community Again: Support Groups for Alcohol Abuse and How to Get Started
Recovery is a process — finding a community to walk with you makes it possible.
Alcohol use disorder touches far more lives than many realize. For those who struggle with drinking, the consequences can ripple through relationships, work, health, and everyday well-being. One of the most powerful resources available to people facing these challenges is the support group: a space where lived experience, practical wisdom, and steady encouragement come together. This article explains the different kinds of support groups, what they offer, and how to take the first steps toward joining one. Continue reading “Finding Community Again: Support Groups for Alcohol Abuse and How to Get Started”
Medetomidine: an emerging danger in drug supply, its risks, and how to get help
Medetomidine is a potent sedative used legally in veterinary medicine to calm or anesthetize animals. It is not approved for human use. Yet in recent years it has shown up in illicit drug supplies — sometimes mixed with opioids like fentanyl — and that has led to serious, even fatal, outcomes. Understanding why medetomidine is dangerous, how it behaves when combined with other substances, what to do in an emergency, and where to find long‑term help can save lives. Continue reading “Medetomidine: an emerging danger in drug supply, its risks, and how to get help”
Stress Awareness Month: What It Means and Why It Matters
April is Stress Awareness Month — an annual opportunity to shine a spotlight on a quiet but pervasive public health issue: stress. Stress is part of life, a built-in response that alerts us to danger, motivates action, and helps us perform under pressure. But when stress becomes chronic or overwhelming, it can damage physical health, mental wellbeing, relationships, and productivity. Stress Awareness Month exists to raise understanding, reduce stigma, and promote practical strategies individuals, workplaces, and communities can use to manage stress more effectively. Continue reading “Stress Awareness Month: What It Means and Why It Matters”
April is Alcohol Awareness Month…What You Need to Know
April is Alcohol Awareness Month — an annual opportunity to look honestly at how alcohol affects our health, relationships, workplaces, and communities. Far from being just another awareness observance, April’s focus on alcohol is grounded in decades of research and public-health practice. It’s a time to share facts, reduce stigma, promote prevention, and connect people to treatment and recovery resources. This entry walks through the month’s origins, how the conversation around alcohol has changed, why the observance matters today, and practical ways individuals and communities can use April as a catalyst for safer, healthier choices. Continue reading “April is Alcohol Awareness Month…What You Need to Know”
Women at the Center of Group Healing: A Fresh Look at Pioneering Roles in Mental Health
Women have shaped the practice and philosophy of group therapy from its informal origins through its modern clinical forms. While many historical narratives center on a handful of famous male theorists, a closer look reveals that women — as caregivers, clinicians, researchers, and activists — built the relational infrastructure that made group-based healing possible. This essay revisits that history, highlights lesser-known pioneers, and traces how women’s perspectives transformed group therapy into a versatile, community-oriented modality. Continue reading “Women at the Center of Group Healing: A Fresh Look at Pioneering Roles in Mental Health”
Women’s History Month: Celebrating Women Who Championed Mental Health and Recovery
More Than a Month: The Living Legacy of Women’s History
There is a particular kind of courage that doesn’t make the evening news. It doesn’t topple governments or win Nobel Prizes or get written into constitutional amendments — at least, not directly. It’s the courage of a mother who learned to read in secret, then taught her daughters. The courage of a woman who showed up to a job she wasn’t supposed to have and did it brilliantly anyway. The courage of a girl who raised her hand in a classroom where no one expected her to have the answer. March — Women’s History Month — is for them, too. It’s for all of them. Continue reading “More Than a Month: The Living Legacy of Women’s History”