Pathlight Mood and Anxiety Center

Your gentle reminder of the week: you are worthy of love just as you are. 🧡

What is the best mental health advice you've ever received? 👇

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is ask for help. 🧡

We’ll say it — asking for help is *so* much easier than it sounds. Especially for those of us who love to be the one to offer help to our loved ones... Asking for help ourselves can feel so foreign, so weird, so shameful. But we’re here to remind you that there’s nothing wrong with asking for help. In fact, it’s one of the bravest things you can do. 💙

If you’re looking for help for an eating disorder or a mood disorder, know that there are resources available. Send us a private message if you have questions and we’ll help direct you to some resources!

In honor of , we're taking a moment to highlight one of our amazing nonprofit partners that works tirelessly to support initiatives and programs that increase access to culturally relevant mental health and wellness resources, therapy, and training experiences for the Black community.

Learn more about Black Mental Wellness below!👇

Individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPOC) often face unique roadblocks and stigma when seeking mental health care. Each July, aims to reduce this stigma and increase mental health support within these communities.

To help raise awareness, we've compiled a list with four nonprofit organizations you should know about.👇

Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3RQxnWD

1. The Loveland Foundation
2. Asian Mental Health Project
3. Kevin Berthia Su***de Survivor/Advocate/Speaker
4. Black Mental Wellness

Individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPOC) often face unique roadblocks and stigma when seeking mental health care.

Each July, BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month aims to reduce this stigma and increase mental health support within these communities.

To help raise awareness, we’ve compiled a list with four nonprofit organizations you should know about.☝️

If you’ve been struggling with your self-worth lately, here are 3 affirmations to try 🧡:

1. I am worthy of love even on my bad days.

2. Other peoples opinion of me does not determine my worth

3. My past mistakes do not define me.

Let’s support each other in prioritizing our mental health by sharing helpful self-care activities below.👇

Let's support each other in prioritizing our mental health by sharing helpful self-care activities.👇

If you're struggling to make time for self-care in your daily life or need more activities to try, find helpful tips in our blog here: https://bit.ly/3L6bLSk

In case anyone else needed to hear this today... 🧡

Your end-of-week encouragement to lead with a little self-love. 🧡

If your loved one has recently been diagnosed with PTSD, you may feel overwhelmed trying to figure out how to best support them.

Above are a few tips on how you can navigate this challenging time. 🧡

If your loved one has recently been diagnosed with PTSD, you may feel overwhelmed trying to figure out how to best support them.

Below are a few tips on how you can navigate this challenging time. 🧡

In honor of , we'd like to invite you to join us in raising awareness about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in an effort to increase understanding and reduce the number of people suffering in silence. 🧡

Learn more about PTSD and treatment options here: https://bit.ly/3KQRCQm

In honor of , we’d like to invite you to join us in raising awareness about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in an effort to increase understanding and reduce the number of people suffering in silence. 🧡

Tap the link in our bio to learn more about PTSD and treatment options. 🔗

We're so excited to share a beautiful piece of writing by our incredible collegiate mental health advocate Shannon Kopp where she discusses her relationship with her father who struggled with addiction.

Read it on the Today Show here: https://on.today.com/3VMbzOj

In an effort to help reduce mental health stigma this , we've compiled a few stories where men share how therapy has helped them.

Check it out below. 🧡

Quotes from BuzzFeed

Did you know that male suicides have been on the rise since 2000? This devastating statistic shows how important it is to change the way we speak about masculinity and encourage men to speak up and reach out for the help they need and deserve.🧡

Here are a few phrases that people need to eliminate from their vocabulary. 👇

1. "Real Men Don't Struggle"

2. "Man Up"

3. "Asking For Help Makes You Weak"

4. "Men Don't Cry"

We'll say it — asking for help is *so* much easier than it sounds. Especially for those of us who love to be the one to offer help to our loved ones... Asking for help ourselves can feel so foreign, so weird, so shameful. But we're here to remind you that there's nothing wrong with asking for help. In fact, it's one of the bravest things you can do. 🧡

If you're looking for help for a mood disorder, know that there are resources available. Send us a private message if you have questions and we'll help direct you to some resources!

Some may call them “silly little posts,” but if our content can impact the life of just one person, and help them feel seen, validated, and less alone in their struggles, it means the world to us. 🧡 🧡

What is emotion regulation? The best way to understand emotion regulation is to start with what emotion dysregulation looks like. When we live in a dysregulated state, we aren’t able to use helpful skills to reduce or moderate negative emotions.

This can look like...

Mood swings: You are extremely happy and then extremely sad, with no sense of balance.
Irritability: You feel triggered and yell at the driver who just cut you off, even though they will never hear you.
Feeling stuck: You can’t move beyond feeling angry or jilted, and it keeps replaying in your mind.

So, emotion regulation is practicing skills to reduce these intense emotional responses to a situation. This is like opening up our brain’s pathways to find new avenues to communicate experiences, fixing the fractured roads so traffic can flow freely.

Head to our latest blog for more tips on emotion regulation: https://bit.ly/44LQPJK