Did you feel it? The sudden, gusty wind change from fall to seasonal pandemonium that just blew past at record speed? One minute, streets were filled with trick-or-treaters hoping for a lifelong bounty of sweets, and the next, Santa and his sidekicks pushed pumpkins off of the shelf in a mad race for first place […]
Michelle Hoy, LPC, CAC III Executive Vice President, Mind Springs Health Did you know that nearly twice as many people die by their own hands than in car accidents? Why do so many people take their own life? More importantly, what can we as community do about it? As mental health professionals, we believe that […]
Julie shares her thoughts on mental illness as a dis-ease and breaking down the stigma surrounding it.
By Jill Davis, CPFS
“When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail!” – Ziad K. Abdelnour The older I get the more it becomes crystal clear that life isn’t always going to play out the way I’d like. Oh, to be able to avoid the tragedies and traumas that can pummel my otherwise serene existence. Just like the […]
With just two extra letters Mental Illness becomes Mental Skillness. What does that mean? Julie shares her thoughts in the video below.
by Jill Davis, CPFS
“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself” –Plato I have been looking forward to the long-awaited film adaptation of Stephen King’s book about Derry, Maine and the sinister entity that has lurked forever in the town. Over the years, so the story goes, there is a ritual that is said to destroy […]
In this video Julie, who lives with bipolar, tells the story of her first visit to the psychiatric hospital and explains how sharing her story is healing for both herself and for others.
Mind Springs Health, the largest provider of mental health and addiction treatment on the Western Slope, is proud to name Meredith T. Smith PsyD., LP as Program Director for our Summit County practice, located in Frisco, Colorado. Dr. Smith, most recently with AllHealth Network, the community mental health center serving Arapahoe and Douglas Counties on […]
Julie Hart shares a fresh metaphor she uses as she lives with bipolar.
By Jill Davis
It doesn’t take too long to notice that there’s some rough things that go on in life. None of us are immune and all of us have a story to tell. The question that begs asking is this: do you have someone to tell it to? I can remember times where I felt that I […]
