This week marks International OCD Awareness Week. To honor it, we’re spotlighting an artist we’ve admired for years. Jeff Sparr co-founded PeaceLove, a nonprofit that helps people find peace of mind through expressive arts. He also lives with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). He counts creativity among the most important tools he uses to care for…
Logan Lynn had been home for four days when he joined us for a Flawless Talk. He had come off a whirlwind tour of advance community screenings for The Pain and The Power, staying after each one to talk with audiences. The tour left him tired but that morning he felt ready to work again.…
National Compassionate Leadership Week runs September 6 through 12 this year. The TramutoPorter Foundation, which Donato Tramuto co-founded with Jeff Porter, established the week in 2022. The premise holds up. Leaders get better results when they lead with empathy, and compassion belongs at the center of how we work. Donato has spent a career making…
Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday, September 2nd at her home in New York City. She was 92. Her official Instagram account announced her death, saying she passed away “surrounded by some of the many who loved her.” The world will remember her for the movement she built. She helped launch Ms. magazine and co-founded the…
Sydney Towle was 23 years old when she was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive bile duct cancer that typically affects people over the age of 50. What followed was three years of treatments and challenges most people, especially those in their twenties, will never face. Across her vibrant social media, Syd met all…
Three advocacy role models worth knowing before National Schizophrenia Awareness Day, this July 25th. Some words come with misconceptions before we have a chance to define what they mean. “Schizophrenia” may be the leader in this category. This Saturday, July 25, is National Schizophrenia Awareness Day. The awareness day was started in Britain by Rethink…
By: Dr. Robin Jones What an incredible, high-energy day! On Wednesday, July 15th, the Flawless Foundation team, Carol, Ashley, Justice, Zion, and I headed to the 15th annual KidsFit Jamathon® at the South Florida Fairgrounds. We set up our Flawless Wellness Table right in the middle of the Silent Disco Room, and let me tell…
Reflections from a July morning in Crotona Park, where Hope House celebrated its ribbon cutting. If you have been following our Flawless blog over the past few weeks, you know we have spent a lot of time in the courts: the treatment courts of Miami-Dade, the science of relapse and recovery, and the long family…
We Lost the Filmmaker. Let’s Not Forget His Cause. The mental health advocacy community has lost a quiet giant. Brian Lindstrom was a Portland, Oregon-based documentary filmmaker who devoted his career to telling the stories of people living with mental illnesses and the consequences of a judicial system that too often criminalizes them. He described…
A #FlawlessTalk on Maternal Mental Health Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is a time to celebrate the beauty of new life, but it is also an opportunity to speak about the realities many new moms face. The transition to parenthood can be one of the loneliest and most overwhelming seasons of life. Recently, we sat…
