The Flawless team recently traveled from all over the country to congregate in New Hampshire for the Mental Health for US Unite For Change Town Hall. We heard from an incredible group of speakers and even a few presidential candidates who introduced their ideas and policies on mental health. For me, two speakers left a resounding impact and gave everyone in the audience hope and inspiration with the authenticity of their speeches.
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By Abby Cooper, Flawless Intern Being grateful can really change your life, and there’s science behind it. You can express gratitude for anything in your life, tangible or otherwise. Gratefulness has been proven to affect overall happiness by improving one’s career, social life, and even physical health. Simply acknowledging what you are grateful for can…
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Esmé Weijun Wang is an award-winning writer and her most recent essay collection, The Collected Schizophrenias, was named a New York Times best seller and one of the TIME’S 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019. Recently, Flawless Foundation had the opportunity to hear from Wang herself in conversation with Elyn Saks at USC’s Saks Institute…
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By Janine Francolini, Flawless Founder At the Flawless Foundation, our tagline is “Seeing the perfection in every person.” This means that we approach the world by looking through the lens of light and possibility with a focus on creating healthy environments for growth and optimal health to occur. What defines health often changes, depending on…
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Our Flawless Fellow Maureen Mahoney had the opportunity to meet and attend a talk by Mike Erwin, United States military veteran and founder of both Team Red White and Blue and the Positivity Project. Continue reading to hear about all the wisdom and inspiration she gained from this experience! Today, we celebrate Veterans Day. We…
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Who’s got the power? We’ve got the power. What kind of power? People power! The final keynote discussion of the UsAgainstAlzheimer’s 2019 National Alzheimer’s Summit—about the intersection of civil rights, racism, and the impact of Alzheimer’s— ended with this chant, led by panelist and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta. The audience answered the chant’s call…
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By Abby Cooper, Flawless Foundation Intern As Bullying Prevention Month comes to an end, I feel inspired to share with you my thoughts on The Peanut Butter Falcon, a film that powerfully represents the lives of people who are differently abled. I am reflecting on this movie during this important awareness month, in particular, because people…
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American Eagle recently partnered with The Global Coalition on Youth Mental Health to host “YMentalHealth? Our Future Depends On It,” a forum featuring the experiences of young people who are living with mental health challenges. The event was an important opportunity for young people to talk about why mental health matters to them, with the…
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The issue of bullying is especially close to our hearts here at Flawless. Although this is a very serious issue, we find hope in the knowledge that prevention is possible, through the intersection of social and emotional learning and culture change. October is National Bullying Prevention Month so we are sharing our top 5 tips…
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At its most essential, mental health advocacy has one main goal: saving and improving lives by changing policy. This means that at federal, state, and local levels, we need policymakers to believe in our goals for mental health reform as much as we do. When the brain health advocacy community has the opportunity to affect…
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