Mental Health is Physical Health

NAMI Hearts+Minds is an 8-hour wellness workshop divided over four weeks designed to empower you to better manage your health - mentally and physically!

In this course, a duo of trained instructors will guide participants to better understand and advocate for their whole bodies by sharing helpful information on how body systems interact, effective strategies for managing physical effects of mental illness, and facilitating discussions on how to improve long-term health.

NAMI Hearts + Minds will be offered in 2025.
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We will recognize you as a whole human being, not a diagnosis or a medical condition. 

In addition to learning how to advocate for your mental health, how physical and mental health are connected, how nutrition can affect gut health and the brain, and effective methods for managing side effects of medication, you will gain a greater sense of control over how you feel.

  • Mental Health Is Physical Health

    It's time to correct the idea that mental and physical health are separate health conditions.

    The best possible mental health recovery requires attention to all aspects of your health.

    You are complex, unique, and interconnected from head to toe. You are a "whole" human being — not a medical condition or a mental health diagnosis. You are not alone, and you are not powerless.

    You can improve your symptoms by learning about how your body systems interact, and by effectively managing both the physical effects of mental illness, and the lifestyle options that can help you feel better overall.

  • What you'll learn

    You’ll gain information and tools that can help you plan and achieve recovery goals and better overall health.

    How to advocate for your health

    • How physical and mental health are specifically connected

    • Gut health and how nutrition can affect the brain

    • Current information on the interplay of diet and fitness — and how they can influence your symptoms

    • Effective methods for managing the side effects of medication

    • Substance use and smoking cessation

    • How to gain a greater sense of control over how you feel

  • Did you know?

    People with depression have a 40% higher risk of developing cardiovascular and metabolic diseases than the general population.

    Rates of obesity for people with serious mental illness are nearly double the general population.

    People with serious mental illness have twice the rate of type 2 diabetes than the general population.

    People with cardiovascular disease and serious mental illness have a significantly shorter life span (10–20 years) than the general population.

    (https://www.nami.org/Support-Education/Mental-Health-Education/NAMI-Hearts-Minds)