The Main Place, Inc.

05/11/2026

05/09/2026

05/09/2026

Go visit The Main Place crew at today on The Square!

05/08/2026

Staff and Peers made a post it board today full of positive affirmations!

05/08/2026

With the first week of Mental Health Awareness Month coming to a close, let’s take this time to take a break. Here are a few minute break ideas that you can add to your toolbox and recharge.

~ Deep Breathing: Try the 4-7-8 (Inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 7, then out for 8
~ Sensory Reset: Take an ice cube or cold cloth and place it on your face
~ Simple Yoga: Stretch your limbs it does not have to be anything fancy
~ Start a Gratitude Jar: Get a small paper and write one thing you are grateful for and put it in the jar. Later add to your jar and pull out as you need the positive boost.
~ Take a minute to clean your place or things. Throw some trash away, rub the dust off, or simply organize that pile of mail. Even just a minute can help boost your mood.

These are just a few ideas to give yourself a nice needed small break when you need to reset adding these to your mental health toolbox that you may like or may help you and add your favorite tool to the comments because your tool might be the thing that someone else needs to hear.

05/05/2026

🌱 Mental health is everything.
Not just on the hard days, but every single day. It’s the foundation for how we show up for ourselves, our families, our friends, and our dreams.

Too often we push through exhaustion, anxiety, sadness, or burnout like it’s normal. We say “I’m fine” when we’re barely holding it together. We scroll past our own needs to take care of everyone else.

But here’s the truth:

You can’t pour from an empty cup.

You’re allowed to rest.

You’re allowed to ask for help.

You’re allowed to not be okay.

If you’re struggling right now — whether it’s anxiety that won’t quit, depression that makes everything feel heavy, or just a constant feeling of being overwhelmed — I see you. You’re not weak. You’re human. And you matter more than your productivity or how “together” you look on the outside.

•Check on your strong friends.

•Check on the ones who always seem happy.

•And most importantly, check on yourself.

Small steps count:

• A 10-minute walk

• Saying no without guilt

• Reaching out to a friend

• Therapy

• Medication (when needed)

• Simply breathing through the hard moment

Mental health isn’t a luxury — it’s everything. Let’s normalize talking about it without shame.

If you’re reading this and needed this reminder today: You’ve already survived 100% of your hardest days. You’ve got this. One breath, one step, one day at a time.

05/05/2026

05/04/2026

Thank you Timothy for these beautiful paintings you created. These paintings will be at the Steps of Change raffle.

05/04/2026

Here is the Mount Vernon Center calendar for May.

Some highlights:

~ Tuesday (5th): The center is closed all day

~ Monday (18th) at 10am: Finding it hard to make up your mind? Need some tools to help you be more decisive? Join us for our Decision Making group.

~ Friday (22nd) at 12pm: In preparation for the long weekend, come join us for Reflection Friday followed by a movie!

~ Monday (25th): Memorial Day, the center will be closed.

04/30/2026

Another month quickly passed us, but here at The Main Place we are excited to share with you all our Newark center’s calendar for May. Some important dates and things you might see are:

~ Monday (4th) at 12:30: The agency is welcoming a local artist to come teach come make something nice and learn something new.
~ Tuesday (5th): The center will open late at 10am
~ Monday (11th) at 9am: Come to Monday Morning Music and enjoy a bit of destressing, we will be jamming out.
~Monday (25th): Memorial Day, the center will be closed.

We look forward to seeing you all and stay tuned for more fun groups and activities being held at both centers.

01/28/2026

Imagine a world....

Where mental health care was health care.

Where our insurance paid for annual checkups with a mental health provider, even if we are "fine."

Where we all had a primary care provider to help keep our minds well, and our insurance paid for those visits too, or at least helped out with the cost...

Where also we had someone we could go see when we are not feeling well in our minds, and our insurance paid for that too, or at least helped out with the cost.

Maybe then in this world, more and more people would have healthy minds, souls, and bodies.

Why do we wait until more and more people are mentally ill, and hit bottom and lost everything they need in their life, to start paying attention to mental health, and demand the mentally ill get help, and then have insurance, or taxpayers, pay, or help pay for those services?

Imagine a world...