Last Saturday, 49-year-old Adam Palmer of Eagle updated his Facebook profile photo to an image of him and a group of his ski buddies. They’re suited up and striding along
The Healthy Kids Colorado Survey asks local youth about health topics, including exercise, diet, alcohol, tobacco, drug use, mental health, suicide, bullying, health care, and sexual behaviors (high school only). The survey, which is taken…
Sustainability Tip
It’s fair to say we all leapt into this new year with more hope in our hearts and minds than we’d come to know in the year prior. What may be a surprise is the list of positives hidden beneath the suite of misfortune last year brought.
“I feel like there is a silver lining, and the more we can talk to people about finding that, the more the effect of the pandemic won’t be as negative, long-lasting and impactful as it’s always painted out to be, with people finding new opportunities, new ways to engage, and using it for a positive shift in their life,” said Chris Rieder, Eagle County Program Director of Mind Springs Health.
Valley Voices
The holidays are the most wonderful time of the year, at least that is what we are told anyway. The reality is the holidays, combined with the challenges that 2020 has presented, can be a difficult time for many individuals struggling with alcoholism and other addictions, and for those in recovery.
This holiday season looks and feels much different than previous holidays. Understandably, this is likely to produce a wide variety of thoughts and feelings for all of us. For someone with a substance use disorder, these thoughts and feelings can lead to continued use of a substance or begin the process of relapse for someone in recovery.
Holidays highlight critical issue of mental health in Colorado mountain towns
Two of things keeping us sane these days skiing … and dogs.
The holidays can be a tough time of the year on the behavioral health front under the best of circumstances. Throw in a global pandemic, economic collapse, and the most divisive election in recent memory, and you have a perfect storm of deteriorating mental health for many folks.
Ski towns in the idyllic mountains of Colorado, where everyone is supposed to be happy and healthy all the time, are not immune.
Take, for example, ski instructors. You’d think they’d be happy just to be plying their trade at all given how many other people in the tourism, recreation and entertainment industries have been shut down by COVID-19.