Category: Health and Wellness
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Music is Medicine for Wellness and Joy
Our Senior Program Manager Bre shares how she uses music to uplift her mood within her wellness practice By Bre Williams Summertime is upon us! We are still in the shadows of the pandemic, but we can get out of our homes and get out in the sun! Being outside and soaking up some sun,…
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Celebrate Queer Mental Wellness with these Resources in the Bay Area
A guide to celebrations and resources centering mental wellness in the LGBTQ community in the Bay By Leah Harris Happy Pride Month! This Pride season, here’s a roundup of local and national resources that support and promote the mental wellness and social connection of LGBTQ+ folks. Please feel free to share these resources widely. Pride…
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Money and Mental Health: The Big M’s of Life
Managing money wisely can be helpful in managing overall mental health By Heather Riemer I will start this post off with this quote from French philosopher Albert Camus: “It is a kind of a spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.” I know from experience that it’s difficult to be…
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Remembering Jay Mahler
PEERS commemorates the life and work of a pioneer in the Bay Area mental health and peer community By PEERS Staff It is with great sadness that we share the news that long time mental health advocate Jay Mahler passed away last week. For the past 50 years, Jay worked tirelessly to improve mental health…
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Upcoming Event: A Night of Wellness and Healing for the Black Community
PEERS is presenting a night of Black Healing and Wellness Summit on June 3rd at 6 pm. We will have our Black Wellness and Resilience experts Regina Simpkins and Darren White and guest speakers Alicia Holcombe, Shawana Atkins and Jenee Darden providing content and solutions on what self-care and healing looks like for you and the Black…
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month!
By Heather Riemer Mental Health America started Mental Health Awareness Month in 1949. This was to bring awareness to the fact that there are many many people living with mental health challenges. Mental Health Awareness month has a different campaign theme each year. Some of the most recent years were these: 2020-Tools 2 thrive 2019-4…
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Finding healing through peer support groups
PEERS staff member Kivi shares their story of recovery and how it led them to join PEERS and further the organization’s mission By Kivi Neimi I am the Human Resource Manager at PEERS. I grew up in a large extended family of immigrants from Finland. We are part of a subculture called Inari Saami. My…
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How to Be an Ally to AANHPI Communities
By Leah Harris This month, we spotlight the intersection of Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. While AANHPI groups are by no means the same, having vastly different cultural histories and a wide variety of lived experiences, the traumatic impact of historic and recent hate crimes and…
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A Little About: Kimberly
Written By: Kimberly Marquez-Cortes My name is Kimberly and I have the pleasure of being the Programs Manager for PEERS. Here is A Little About Me! I am the fourth of six daughters but the eldest who lives here in the states. Obviously I am the coolest and most amazing one, no surprise there. (jk…
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Equity
Written By Vilma Salauskaite I haven’t heard much of that term “equity” being used lately. Here’s a little something I found on SAMHSA page: Behavioral Health Equity is the right to access quality health care for all populations regardless of the individual’s race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, or geographical location. This includes access to…