My Philosophy and Pledge:

• Mental dis-ease - in all its variety - is real.

• Mental wellbeing is the ability to experience and move through all normal human emotions - happiness, anger, sadness, anxiety - with the energy and motivation to do the things we need and want to do. This should be a human right.

• It is difficult - to say the least - to reach or maintain mental wellbeing when you:

  • pay attention to what is happening in the world; are discriminated against; are over-worked, over-scheduled, unemployed, can’t make a living wage, are living paycheck to paycheck; feel like you’re going-it alone; are not in-community with like-minded others.

• Systems in this country work hard to medicalize our states of mind, placing the burden of mental wellbeing on the “patient,” instead of on the system that “patient” lives within.

• Mental wellbeing is my goal for you, for myself, and for all beings.

• Given the systems we live in, part of mental wellbeing must be pursuing systemic change in ways big and small. I ask you to join me in this effort, in whatever way(s) you can.

At Mental Wellbeing NP, I am on this path - this human path - with you.