It used to be that when people heard about meditation, they often pictured someone with long hair and a beard, wearing Eastern-style clothes and a string of beads around their neck, sitting cross-legged in an excruciating posture like a pretzel, eyes closed and chanting some unfamiliar words. Read More
Breaking Free of the Stigma: A Conversation on Mental Health is a virtual panel that will explore the stories of fashion designers, models, and sober advocates, and the impact their mental health has had on their careers within the industry. Read More
We’ve all heard the term unprecedented times throughout the past few years. It continues to be a fitting description of our current state of the world. Read More
As the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in the country, the opioid epidemic has been raging silently, with less coverage by the media. Unfortunately the past 2 years of the pandemic have led to sharp increases in overdose deaths. Read More
Break Free NYFW, a sober fashion showcase, held its first showcase on Monday, February 14th. The featured designers include: Jacqueline City Apparel, Love Disorder, Adorn Your Clothes, and LadyCat. Read More
There was a guy at work I liked, but he was straight. The other guys at work always made fun of him, jeering with mirthless laughter. He was the punching bag. Read More
Often, when we consider the notion of change, we only pay attention to the extraordinary measures people take to overhaul their lives. We think of the person who had the life-altering epiphany, the one who “woke up” one morning and decided to do everything differently. Read More
Naloxone, also known as one of it’s brand names, Narcan, is a medicine that has greatly helped during the opioid crisis. Some people have been calling it a miracle medicine. Read More
You’re tired of feeling anxious and frustrated. You feel a little helpless- are they ever going to change or get better? Will you be stuck in this terrible cycle forever? Read More
New Years Eve and Day looked a little different for everyone this year, however we all still entered with goals and resolutions to make 2022 much brighter, make ourselves much stronger and make those that we love feel even more loved. Read More
Know Your Why is a virtual panel that will explore ways to get involved with the recovery community and the panelists why for what they do in their daily lives in their careers of working within the recovery and mental health communities. Read More
Is it too big a stretch to merge the conversation of mental health and recovery with fashion? Alexandra Nyman of LadyCat doesn’t seem to think so. Read More
