TMHA Week: Collaborative Mental Wellness Mural

Hello everyone! 👋

Since it's May – Teen Mental Health Awareness Month – we are trying to do something to show we are all in this together and to highlight how important our minds are. I am super excited about the activity: Collaborative Mental Wellness Mural 🎉

Think of it like this: it is a shared canvas just for us to show what feeling mentally well *really* means to each of us. There's no right or wrong way to do it; it is all about you sharing your vibe and connecting with everyone else creatively.

Imagine this activity as our collective voice, like a beautiful, colorful quilt comprising all our thoughts and feelings about mental health. Whether it is that peaceful feeling inside, something that makes you strong, a symbol of hope, or just a few words that lift you, we want to see it and hear it from you.

So here is how you can participate:

Get arty 🎨: Take a pencil and paper to let your creativity flow. Draw shapes that bring you peace, patterns that feel grounding, characters that represent resilience, abstract designs that capture your inner world – whatever visually speaks to your understanding of mental wellness. Don't forget to try colors, if you can. 

Use text to share 💬: Share words that uplift you, short phrases that resonate with your journey, affirmations you hold onto, inspiring quotes you love, or even single letters that carry significance for your mental well-being.

Use images/ stickers 🖼️: Do you have a picture on your phone or a sticker/ gif that shows what mental wellness means to you? Share it with us.

For me personally, I think feeling mentally well is kind of like having a little garden 🌸 inside you. It needs looking after, some care, and lots of different things to help it grow. Sometimes it is about finding those quiet moments of peace (maybe a soft blue circle?), sometimes it is about being strong when things get tough (like a vine that just keeps winding and growing?), and sometimes it is all about connecting (like lines and shapes all coming together?). I can't wait to see how all our different ways of showing this come together into something really beautiful, and that means a lot to us all.

This is a safe space for us to share, connect, and remember that none of us is going through this alone. What you think, what you have experienced, and how you see mental wellness all matter – a lot.

So, let's try this activity together and share what you can.