Alright I forgot to post yesterday😅 ! We had social Saturday and I hope you all took advantage of the gorgeous weather and met up with some friends. I have a confession… I cleaned my house instead of going out🤦🏽‍♀️ I did spend some quality time with my family though. Alright today concluded the seven day challenge and we are wrapping up with Self Care Sunday. Self care is a monumental part of your mental health and I feel like it’s something we are not so good at. So, today you should do something nice for yourself. Take a bubble bath, go to the spa, maybe spend some time doing whatever your favorite thing is to do. Whatever it is that brings you peace. If you don’t have any idea what to do, try some things and learn more about yourself! Everyone have a great day and feel free to share what you did for yourself today.

Alright fitness Friday!!!! I’m awake extra early cause my back decided we didn’t need much more sleep. So I’ve started my day off with some awesome stretches that the physical therapists gave me and at 8am I’m heading into the PT for an exciting hour of painful movement which he swears is helping me🤣 Anyway that’s about all the fitness I’m allowed to do right now with my injury but something is better than nothing.

Alright we are on Thankful Thursday!! Five things and what they have meant to me 1. My children… they are my life. Without them I do not know where I would be. They are my reason to get up and keep going no matter how much I don’t want to at times. 2. My health…. I’m grateful that I’m healthy enough to do all the things that my body allows me to do. 3. My friends and my family, and the friends who have become family. I’ve gone through some tough times and the I appreciate every single one of those people who stood by me and stood up for me when I couldn’t. 4. Every new day … I’m grateful that there’s a new beginning every morning and it’s a chance to start fresh. Im also grateful that there is a defined ending to the day because it allows me to close the chapter if maybe that day wasn’t so good. 5. Im grateful for this non-profit. It allowed me personally to honor the friend that we loss. It teaches me everyday that there is hope that someone else who feels lost, alone and desperate for an end might come here and find what they need to keep fighting . It teaches me humility and I value that lessen so much.

Alright people today is Wednesday and as such I hope that you will participate in this challenge. Journaling is a great tool for getting things out of your head. If you dont already do this , please give it a try no matter how silly you think it seems. We do not need to know what you wrote down, but feel free to let us know if you felt like it made a difference for you.

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@Mfeby Thank you for your kind words and encouragement. I truly appreciate that.

Alright today is Tuesday and I have one things burning through my brain that I would like to talk about. Earlier we mentioned a former first responder who is homeless and heavy addicted to drugs. We tried to get him off the streets and couldn’t. We tried over and over and over with no luck. As fate would have it at 3am Friday night I received a phone call from a friend that runs a homeless outreach. I quickly assumed the worst but I found out that our friend actually was pretty sick and was requesting to be taken to the hospital. This is an action that is out of character for him, so he must have been in bad shape. Usually when he goes to the hospital he walks out. I’m happy to say that he’s still there, well at least as of last night he was. He did get frustrated and talked of leaving last night but the conversation ended with him promising to stay. I want to help him so badly, and I have the means to make it happen, but I know he has to want it. I’m just frustrated and really don’t know what I’m going to do if he refuses.

Okay guys and girls it’s Monday!!!! My go to song is Post Malone - sunflower! Love it, doesn’t matter how bad a day I’m having that song makes me feel good.

The winners were chosen this afternoon. Gary and Jay both received a 25.00 Venmo credit

We ran a contest this past week on all social media platforms which asked for members of management to post pictures or stories of how they showed their appreciation for their teams. We also asked all rank and file employees to pick the person or persons who keep them going at work and post a pic. These are the submissions we received.

Love this post!! Thank You for sharing it with us.

Music therapy is the best!!! I use that one a lot.

Thats interesting because Im honestly torn on what comes first. May I ask why you feel PTSD comes first, then burnout?

I think our first order of business for this self help group should be to figure out why only Bonnie has a sideway profile picture. LOL!

On the facebook page we discussed is it a physical presentation or a mental presentation. What is PTSD versus burnout? Are they the same? Does one lead to the other? What do you guys think?