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Are You Caring for Someone with Psychosis?
Join us on November 2nd, 2023 from 12:00pm - 3:00pm EST Limited seats. Register below. What is this training about? This training is about Psychosis Recovery by Enabling Adult Carers at Home (p-REACH) is a free online training that offers concrete, evidence-based...
What is Mindfulness and How Can It Help Me Support a Young Person Recovering from Psychosis
Mindfulness practices can help us deal with the stress that understandably arises from trying to navigate psychosis with our loved one. NAVIGATE’s Mindfulness initiative is an 8-week class for families involved in coordinated specialty care programs, offering training...
The Power of Social Connection
Mental health challenges can lead to feeling isolated, or estranged from relationships. While these experiences are more common than we think, it can still be hard to put words to. Based on the understanding that social connectivity is an important driver of...
Navigating Recovery from Psychosis: Michigan youth & families share their experiences
https://www.youtube.com/embed/QPOOP2XrT0I Michigan Minds Empowered is a resource hub for teens and young adults experiencing changes in thinking, emotions, and sensory perceptions such as hearing or seeing things that others don’t (also known as psychosis). Although...
Sydney’s Story: Navigating Recovery from Psychosis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Or-EjAG4E Sydney shares her experience of hearing voices and rediscovering themselves. Transcript: SYDNEY: I was in grad school and I began to have unusual thoughts. I thought people were trying to brainwash me. I also thought I...
Kathy’s Story: A Parent’s Perspective Navigating Psychosis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTCJJIQoUas Kathy shares her experience as a parent navigating psychosis for her daughter. Transcript: KATHY: When we saw our daughter struggling, we were just so confused and scared because we were dealing with something we...
A Refreshed Resource for Michigan Youth
Welcome! We’re excited to launch a newly-designed website for Michigan Minds Empowered, which has served as an online resource for teens and young adults since 2017. We’ve added new learning content, a self check-in questionnaire, and personal narratives from young...
James’ Story: Navigating Recovery from Psychosis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hshteD2hKAU James shares his experience of hearing voices and rediscovering himself. Transcript: JAMES: I was struggling with my mental health, seeing things, hearing things, just deteriorating. The voices I was hearing, they were...
Garrison’s Story: Navigating Recovery from Psychosis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt4c8hqpYY Garrison shares his experience of hearing voices and rediscovering himself. Transcript: GARRISON: I had hallucinations that were conjured up by my brain. And I felt like I knew more than I could handle, and none of it was...
Eleanor Longden: Voices In My Head
https://youtu.be/syjEN3peCJw?feature=shared Not long after Eleanor Longden started college, she began to hear a voice narrating all her actions in the third person. At first it was a neutral voice, but after telling a friend about it who reacted in horror, Longden...