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Anchorage's Voice on Mental Wellness
NAMI Anchorage provides peer-led mental health support, education, and advocacy for our community because when you replace the "I" with "We" illness becomes wellness

📚 This week's recommendation has been sitting on our office shelf and honestly — fall feels like exactly the right time ...
08/29/2026

📚 This week's recommendation has been sitting on our office shelf and honestly — fall feels like exactly the right time to finally pick it up. 💚

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer

This book is about plants. And it is about so much more than plants. 💚

Robin Wall Kimmerer is both a botanist and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and she writes about the natural world in a way that will fundamentally change how you see it. The trees. The moss. The sweetgrass. The garden outside your window.

Her central idea — that the earth gives to us and we must learn to give back — feels deeply relevant right now. In a world that takes and takes and rarely pauses to say thank you or ask what it can offer in return, this book is a quiet revolution. 💚

It ties beautifully into everything we believe at NAMI Anchorage about community, reciprocity and showing up for one another. And it makes us want to go tend our Trellis Project garden immediately. 🌱😄

For anyone who finds peace in nature, believes in the wisdom of Indigenous voices, or just needs a reminder that we are all deeply connected — this one is for you. 💚

In fact — it's right here on our shelf. Come visit us and borrow it. 😄💚

Happy Anchorage! 🎉Annie has absolutely abandoned poor Leona in the office all by herself today. 😄In Annie's defense — ...
08/28/2026

Happy Anchorage! 🎉

Annie has absolutely abandoned poor Leona in the office all by herself today. 😄

In Annie's defense — it's State Fair season and the youngest needed a fair buddy. The youngest, for context, is a completely grown adult human of 18 years old. Full legal adult. Still needed their parent to take them to pet the animals and eat irresponsible amounts of fair food.

We fully support this. 💚

No judgment here. Fair food hits different at any age and those animals aren't going to pet themselves. 🐄🐖🐓😄

We just wonder if he's going to get his face painted like this again....

So while Annie is out there getting overstimulated and overcharged and absolutely loving every second of it — we want to know:

Have you been to the fair yet? 🎡

Is it your favorite time of year or does the crowd, the noise and the price tag send your nervous system into full revolt? OR — and this is valid — is it somehow both? 😄

Drop your fair hot takes in the comments! 👇

Leona is holding down the fort solo and we appreciate her more than words can say. 💚😄

It's and we have NEWS! 🎉After much determination and possibly some colorful language 😄 — Annie has officially figured ...
08/28/2026

It's and we have NEWS! 🎉

After much determination and possibly some colorful language 😄 — Annie has officially figured out how to add events to our volunteer tracking software!

This means YOU can now see exactly where we need help, when we need it, and sign up for the specific events and shifts that work for you! 💚

We have a FULL fall calendar ahead — health fairs, community events, markets, Mental Wealth, StoryTime and so much more — and we genuinely cannot do any of it without our incredible volunteers. 💚

📲 Scan the QR code on our flier to check out current volunteer opportunities and sign up today!

No experience necessary. Just a heart for community. 💚

"Because I remember what it felt like when I needed someone... and no one showed up." 💙This is why NAMI exists. This is ...
08/27/2026

"Because I remember what it felt like when I needed someone... and no one showed up." 💙

This is why NAMI exists. This is who we are — people who have been in the dark and refused to let others stay there alone.

But we can't do it without you. And right now we are facing a very real fiscal cliff. 💙

If every Anchorage resident gave us just $1 — one single dollar — we would be fully funded for an entire year. Or become a member starting at just $5 at www.nami.org and your voice becomes part of shaping the future of mental health support in our community.

Because people like this — people like YOU — are exactly what this world needs more of. 💙

All donations are tax deductible — receipts provided upon request.

Happy **Women's Equality Day** Anchorage! 💙Today marks the 19th Amendment — the right to vote for women. And we are cele...
08/27/2026

Happy **Women's Equality Day** Anchorage! 💙

Today marks the 19th Amendment — the right to vote for women. And we are celebrating. But we are also having an honest conversation. 💙

Because look at this shirt.

Rosie the Riveter. The Statue of Liberty. RBG. A suffragette. All iconic. All powerful symbols of women's rights and resistance.

And all white. Even Lady Liberty — she may be green but she is very much European. 💚

The 19th Amendment that we celebrate today? It was systematically denied to Black, Indigenous, Asian and Latina women for decades after it passed. The women who fought loudest and longest for equality are frequently the ones left off the shirt. Left out of the history books. Left out of the conversation entirely.

So today we want to know — **who is your favorite influential BIPOC woman and why?**

Drop her name in the comments and tell us her story. Let's build a list worth celebrating. 👇💙

Oh — and stay tuned. Annie has a Cricut and a plan for the back of this shirt. 😄🌟

Come as you are. Always. 💙

Happy Anchorage! 🎉We have something a little different for you today. 💚Yes we have events. Yes we have the calendar. B...
08/26/2026

Happy Anchorage! 🎉

We have something a little different for you today. 💚

Yes we have events. Yes we have the calendar. But today we just want to talk about what's happening right here in our little corner of the world. 💚

After weeks of boxes and chaos and furniture assembly and the Great Power Cord Mystery of 2026 😄 — we are finally about as organized as we are going to get. The walls still need art. But it is starting to feel like us. 💚

Our plants are THRIVING in the office windows and out in the Trellis Project garden. 🌱 Lettuce. Chives. Beans and peas making a valiant late season rally. We are rooting for them. 😄

And honestly? We just want you to come see it. 💚

Not for a specific reason. Not for an event. Just come. Sit with us. See what we've built. Meet the team. Browse the craft supplies. Check on the plants. Let us make you a cup of tea.

We always need volunteers. We always need financial support. But more than anything right now — we just want to see your face. 💚

Tuesday through Saturday | 12:00–4:00 PM
📍 Umoja Cowork Building, 3001 Porcupine Street
Parking lot entrance, left door — ring the doorbell or knock on the windows to the right! 💚

Come as you are. Always. 💚

This we are coming back to something that has been sitting with us. 💚Last week we talked about Hayden Panettiere and L...
08/25/2026

This we are coming back to something that has been sitting with us. 💚

Last week we talked about Hayden Panettiere and Lindsay Clancy. Two women who told their stories. Who were celebrated for their bravery. Who did everything our culture asks of people who are struggling.

And it still wasn't enough.

Because here's the uncomfortable truth:

"We have built an entire cultural performance around public recovery, and we have quietly confused disclosure with protection. Someone tells their story. We call it progress. We share the interview. We buy the book. And we feel, collectively, that something has been solved.

Nothing has been solved."

Sharing a story is not a treatment plan. Applauding someone's bravery is not a safety net. 💚

More recently Mychal Threets — beloved new host of the Reading Rainbow reboot — wrote something that stopped us in our tracks:

"I am not okay. Maybe I'll never be okay. I'm seeking help. Going to the hospital tomorrow. In this moment I am safe. By God's grace."

And then: "No matter what happens to me, I will always be thankful for the extraordinary people in my life who worry, who help me."

THAT. Right there. 💚

Not the applause. Not the interview. Not the book deal. The extraordinary people who worry. Who help. Who show up.

That is what actually saves lives. Not disclosure — connection. Not performance — presence. 💚

That is what our volunteers do here at NAMI Anchorage. Every single week. Showing up because they have been there too and they refuse to let anyone feel that emptiness alone. 💚

And we cannot keep doing it without your support.

💚 Become a member at www.nami.org — from $5/year
💚 Donate at www.namianchorage.org
💚 Show up. For us. For each other.

All donations are tax deductible — receipts provided upon request.

Happy Anchorage! 💙We have scoured the internet. We have stared at the ceiling. We have made a second coffee. We have r...
08/24/2026

Happy Anchorage! 💙

We have scoured the internet. We have stared at the ceiling. We have made a second coffee. We have reorganized something that did not need reorganizing. We have checked our phone approximately 47 times.

And we are STILL trying to figure out what today's motivation is. 😄

So we are going to try something radical.

We are going to pretend Monday is not happening and ease gently into the week sideways. Like a crab. 🦀

Dignified. Determined. Definitely not making eye contact with our to-do list. 😄

If you too are approaching this Monday at a slight sideways angle — you are in excellent company. 💙

Come as you are. Even if "as you are" is still in your pajamas questioning all your life choices. 😄💙

Happy Anchorage. 💙We're going to be real with you today.What do you do when the battery is dead, the gas tank is empty...
08/23/2026

Happy Anchorage. 💙

We're going to be real with you today.

What do you do when the battery is dead, the gas tank is empty, payday is still over a week away, there are no spoons left to borrow, and the week ahead is stacked with sisyphean tasks that feel like they will never actually be done?

We don't have a perfectly curated answer today. We don't have a bubble bath suggestion or a gratitude journal prompt. 😄

We just have this question — sincerely, genuinely, community to community:

How do you cope?

Not thrive. Not optimize. Just... cope. Get through. Put one foot in front of the other when you genuinely cannot remember why you started walking in the first place.

Drop it in the comments. 👇

Because somebody scrolling right now needs to know they are not the only one running on fumes today. And your answer might be exactly what they need to hear. 💙

You are not alone. Even on the empty days. Especially on the empty days. 💙

WOWY'all are amazing!!!This is what is left....everything is free - come and get it!!!
08/23/2026

WOW
Y'all are amazing!!!

This is what is left....everything is free - come and get it!!!

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Anchorage, AK

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