By Tre Gabriel Flawless Fellow What is PeaceLove, and what exactly do they do? The 2019 Annual Peace of Mind Storytellers event answered this question: PeaceLove helps people achieve peace of mind. The Storytellers event brings together leaders, experts, and anyone else working to create peace of mind in their own lives and the lives…
At the beginning of the Saks Institute 2019 Spring Symposium, facilitator Elyn Saks quotes Freud: “Love and work…work and love, that’s all there is.” What people want, Elyn reminds us, is to love and to work. For people living with chronic mental health conditions, however, achieving the “work” part of this equation is often not…
Teachers go into education with eyes wide open, aware of its many challenges. They know that the pay might be low, the hours long, the to-do lists seemingly endless, and that they may have to toe the line between caregiver and educator for many students. Until recently, however, teachers wouldn’t begin their careers thinking that…
“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…
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…
This spring at the University of Michigan, it was more of a whirlwind than normal: our men’s basketball team made it to the final of the NCAA March Madness National Championship, and the campus was in a tumult of celebration and wild hope…until we lost to Villanova. Despite this, the Michigan head coach John Beilein…
This post was first published on October 23, 2017. Behind all of our work at the Flawless Foundation is our core belief in the perfection of every person. Our perspective is always based on seeing our common humanity through the lens of light and love. And we know we aren’t alone. There is a growing…
When I started my non profit, the Flawless Foundation, one of the first organizations I got to know was the One Mind Institute. In particular, One Mind’s founders, the Staglin family, went out of their way to help us get off the ground by introducing us to Patrick Kennedy and working with us on our…
This piece originally appeared on The Huffington Post In honor of President’s’ Day, as part of the Flawless Foundation’s month of spotlighting champions of love and peace, we’re sharing some of the most inspiring models for collaboration across political lines. Lately, there’s been a lot of attention on all that we disagree on, but if…