1 in 5. 1 in 5 people have a mental health condition today. However, what you may not know is that if you are an athlete with a mental health condition, you are significantly less likely to seek help or treatment for your mental health condition. No one should go without help, but athletes face…
He changed the game, now he’s changing the lives of at-risk youth in Akron, Ohio. July 30th marks the day that the doors of the I Promise School opened to 240 third and fourth graders. NBA star Lebron James wanted to give back to the children from his hometown; a place where he missed…
Today is the final day of Social Wellness Month, so I’d like to take the opportunity to share some ideas about social wellness and how to achieve it. Social wellness embodies self-care and nurturing your relationships with others. It means giving and receiving social support, both of which have therapeutic benefits. This kind of relational…
Hi, I’m Lily Turner from Long Island, New York! I’m a sophomore at George Washington University, studying International Affairs. My job at Flawless is graphic design and video editing. I love the foundation’s mission, and their core values align with mine. In my spare time, I enjoy volunteering to help children and their families, creating…
As an Intern at the Flawless Foundation, I have learned more than I could have ever imagined. Not only have I learned an abundant amount of information concerning brain health, but also communications, professionalism, and essential life-skills. Through this inspiring intern training, I learned how to come back from mistakes, the importance of paying attention…
By Maureen Mahoney Flawless Fellow When people hear internship, they think of going on coffee runs, copying data into a spreadsheet, and not having the respect other employees get. My experience interning for the Flawless Foundation has been quite the opposite. I am given real responsibilities and tasks to complete, I have learned an incredible…
“I have depression; it does not have me.” – Michelle Williams Depression. What does it look like? That’s a tough question to answer. Depression on the surface can look like nothing more than a typical, “normal” human being. Or, in this one case, maybe even a vibrant, beautiful Grammy-award winning star. Michelle Williams is a…
Flawless, devoted, detail-oriented, intelligent, talented – only a few words to describe the incredible Elisabeth Scott. Though we are saddened by her departure from Flawless to return to her previous career in Corporate Real Estate management, we celebrate all of her gifts to our organization. Elisabeth’s determination never ceased from her first day on the…
It’s become a strangely familiar routine. It can be any morning, preparing for a busy day scrambling to get out the door with coffee and keys in hand, when a push notification will pop up on my phone: another celebrity has died by suicide. Every time, I feel a sense of utter shock, disbelief, grief,…
It’s a spiral of silence. If no one is talking about it, how can someone experiencing mental health issues know it’s okay to not be okay? How will they know what to do when they are struggling? By not talking about this topic, the spiral continues. Sometimes, the spiral is fatal. Recently, I attended the…
