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The MHB provides funding support to service agencies, managing a budget that includes sales tax funds as set forth in the Community Mental Health Act.

10/17/2025

Designing a Healthier Mindset: What Gratitude Can Offer You

It may sound simple, but a daily gratitude practice can profoundly change your well-being. It's a quiet moment of reflection with powerful, science-backed results.

By simply noting what you're thankful for, you are actively:
💖 Cultivating joy and pleasure.
🧘 Strengthening your emotional resilience.
🧠 Building a healthier, more positive mind.
🍃 Lowering your stress levels.
You don't have to believe it to try it. Just see what happens. Your future self will thank you.

What are you grateful for? Let us know in the comments below! 👇and don’t forget to follow and share.

Tomorrow: Acts of Kindness Spread the Wealth

10/15/2025

HOT SHEETS FOR THE WEEK OF 10.15.2025!

Attached is the latest McHenry County Mental Health Boards Hot Sheet of upcoming training opportunities and Support Groups.
https://mc708.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-15-Hot-Sheet-FINAL.pdf

If you would like to receive the Hot Sheet in your inbox weekly, click here to sign up. https://mc708.org/hot-sheets/

10/15/2025

IN PERSON TRAINING ON OCTOBER 17th – FREE CEUs! 🎯

Please join us for World Trauma Day as we explore how to identify, understand, and re-author the stories that define us. We’ll look at the role of self-talk in shaping these stories and how our experiences impact the narratives we carry.

We’ll also dive into techniques for reshaping self-limiting beliefs, drawing from the practices of narrative therapy, mindfulness, and self-compassion.

Imagine the freedom and growth possible when we and our clients can consciously craft an identity that empowers us, and aligns with our true values, strengths, and potential.

Date: Friday, October 17, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Location: Mental Health Board, 620 Dakota Street, Crystal Lake
CEUs: Yes — and they’re FREE!

🔗 Reserve your seat now: https://mc708.org/event/world-trauma-day-from-shadow-to-light-reclaiming-your-story-in-person/

10/15/2025

Designing a Healthier Mindset: Mindful Morning Moments

Post: What's the first thing you do when you wake up? (Be honest! 😉)

Many of us reach for our phones, but what if we reached within instead?

Tomorrow morning, join me in this simple practice:
✨ Pause: Before picking up your phone, just be still.
🌬️ Breathe: Take a deep, cleansing breath.
🧘 Notice: How does your body feel? What thoughts are present?
☀️ Intend: Set one simple intention for your day.

You have the power to shape your day from the very first moment.

What intention will you set? Share in the comments! 👇and don’t forget to follow and share.

Tomorrow: What Gratitude Can Offer You

10/14/2025

Designing a Healthier Mindset: How to Challenge Negative Thoughts

Stuck in a negative thought loop? Don't just accept it—Challenge it! Become a detective for your own thoughts.

When a negative thought arises, stop and Catch It.

Next, Check It. Ask yourself: Is this thought 100% true? Where is the evidence? What's a more balanced way of looking at this?

Finally, Change It. Reframe the thought into one that is more realistic and compassionate. For example, "I'm a failure" becomes "This was a setback, but I can learn and try again."

How Have You Reframed Your Negative Thoughts? Share in the comments! 👇and don’t forget to follow and share.

Tomorrow: Mindful Morning Moments

10/13/2025

Designing a Healthier Mindset: How to Combat the Negativity in Our Lives

Ever wonder why one critical comment can overshadow five compliments? 🤔 It's not just you, it's brain-wiring!

Our ancestors had to watch out for saber-tooth tigers, not just enjoy the scenery. That survival instinct hardwired a "negativity bias" in us.

We're programmed to notice the bad. So how do you fight back? 👇
• Challenge negative thoughts: Question their validity and reframe them into a more positive or realistic perspective.
• Practice mindfulness: Focus on the present moment through breathing or meditation to reduce the power of negative feelings.
• Cultivate gratitude: Regularly acknowledge things you are thankful for.
• Perform an act of kindness: Helping someone else shifts your focus outward, boosts your mood, and fosters a sense of connection and purpose.

How Do You Combat Negative Thoughts? Share in the comments! 👇and don’t forget to follow and share.

Tomorrow: How to Challenge Negative Thoughts

10/12/2025

Designing a Healthier Mindset: Why Gratitude is so Illusive

How many advertisements have you seen, heard or read today? Think again. Did you count the radio ads, the TV ads, those that appear on your phone, tablet and/or computer? The average American sees between 4,000 and 10,000 ads daily!

Why is that important, and how does it contribute to our dissatisfaction in everyday life?

The purpose of an advertisement is to demonstrate what’s lacking in our lives and encourage us to buy a product or service to remedy that need. In other words, they’re trying to make us feel inadequate in order to sell their stuff, and it’s working!

How are the ads you’re seeing affecting you? Share in the comments! 👇and don’t forget to follow and share.

Tomorrow: How to Combat the Negativity in Our Lives

10/11/2025

Designing a Healthier Mindset: Focus on What Matters

Focus is a funny thing, isn't it? We spend so much energy trying to avoid problems, yet they always seem to find us. It's like focusing on what we don't want just brings more of it.

What if we shifted our focus? Instead of dwelling on the negative, let's concentrate on what we have and cultivate gratitude. This simple change in perspective can be a game-changer for our Mental Wellness. Focusing on the good doesn't just feel better—it pays off big-time.

What are you focusing on today? Share in the comments! 👇and don’t forget to follow and share.

Tomorrow: Why Gratitude is so Illusive

10/09/2025

Designing a Healthier Mindset: The Jewel of a Single Breath

We pause
& wait
for moments to appear,
for spring to sprout,
for summer's shout,
for autumn's breeze
or winter's freeze,
& shudder with inept sensations,
wishing for a swift cessation,
for resolutions to occur,
or revolutions to secure,
with milk & honey
or love or money,
that health returns
& days are sunny…
& we let the moments pass,
as the scent of coffee wafts,
as the blood flows through our veins,
as the moon waxes & wanes,
as the tastes & sounds & sights
fail to thrill or to delight,
& in the wonder of existence
we persist with such resistance,
& never realize the depth –
the jewel of a single breath.

What simple wonders have you been ignoring? Share in the comments! 👇and don’t forget to follow and share.

Tomorrow: Focus on What Matters

10/08/2025

HOT SHEETS FOR THE WEEK OF 10.8.2025!

Attached is the latest McHenry County Mental Health Boards Hot Sheet of upcoming training opportunities and Support Groups.
https://mc708.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-08-Hot-Sheet-FINAL.pdf

If you would like to receive the Hot Sheet in your inbox weekly, click here to sign up. https://mc708.org/hot-sheets/

09/29/2025

VIRTUAL TRAINING ON SEPTEMBER 18th – FREE CEUs! 🎯

ADHD affects people of all ages, impacting focus, organization, emotions, and daily life. This session explores how ADHD and executive functioning challenges show up across the lifespan and offers practical, evidence-based tools to support success at school, home, and work. Grounded in strengths-based, neurodiverse-informed approaches, the training promotes self-awareness and independence.

🗓 Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2025
🕘 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
🎓 CEUs: Yes — and they’re FREE!

🔗 Reserve your seat now: https://mc708.org/event/understanding-adhd-and-executive-functioning-practical-strategies-for-children-teens-and-adults-virtual/

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620 Dakota Street
Crystal Lake, IL
60012

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday	8:30am - 4:30pm
Friday	8:30am - 4:30pm

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http://www.mc708.org/

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