21 May My Experience With Anxiety as a Child
I am a person with anxiety; almost no one around me experiences the same thing. I can tell you, it’s hard....
Author: Leah
05 May The Humanity in Schizophrenia
I was scared the first time I met Matthew. It was many years ago, before I knew much about mental health, and before I became a nurse....
17 Mar In Solidarity with the Asian American Community
Our collective mental health is strengthened by our shared humanity....
20 Jan Eleanor Owen is 100!!!
Eleanor Owen is 100!!! Image created by Artist, Kyle Krauskopf On January 22, Eleanor Owen will celebrate her 100th birthday. If you’ve been around NAMI for a while, you likely know the name. You might know of her role in starting—and then leading for more than twenty...
09 Dec Introducing Sophie Taylor, NAMI Seattle Board Member
By Reagan Kim, Kyra Pennington, Matthew Kolden, Natalia Andrzejowiec, and Arundet Mee, UW Bothell School of Business Sophie Taylor (Photo credit: Sophie Taylor) “Be nice to yourself, if all you can manage to do is take a shower, take a shower, and be proud of yourself.” When...
09 Dec Meet Penny Carothers, a NAMI Seattle board member.
Meet Penny Carothers, NAMI Seattle board member By Samuel Burley, Yeraldin Enriquez, Nathan Markley, Roewyn Umayam, and Boyue Xi, UW Bothell School of Business Penny with her husband and children. Photo credit: Lisa Page “Anyone can be struck by mental health challenges at any time and they deserve...
24 Sep A Better September: Focusing on doing good
A Better September: Focusing on doing good Written By Kim Salada, NAMI Seattle volunteer and trained facilitator. Let's face it. We are not being inundated with good news these days. Quite the opposite, in fact. Pandemic, injustice, unrest, now fires. The heaviness can be hard to avoid...
01 Jul Two Immigration Attorneys’ Perspectives on Mental Health in Immigrant Communities
Two Immigration Attorneys’ Perspectives on Mental Health in Immigrant Communities Thank you to the artists for sharing their work on Unsplash:(top left) Santi Vedri; (bottom left) Caique Silva; (top middle) Karl Fredrickson; (bottom middle) Sabrina May; (top right) Chang Liu; (middle right) Cristian Newman; (bottom right)...
11 Jun It’s Time to Envision a New System
Words matter. So do actions. We need you for both. NAMI Seattle stands in support of Black Lives Matter Seattle/King County and Black organizers across Seattle and the U.S. who are leading a movement to dismantle anti-Black systems and policies. Too often we talk about racial...
01 Jun In Solidarity With the Black Community
Black lives matter. Black mental health matters too -- but outside of the fullness of Black humanity and liberation, they’re just words. We know our amazing NAMI Seattle community understands better than most the impacts of trauma, of state-sanctioned violence, and of systems that were not created with...