PBSC Student Wellbeing

02/12/2025

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“You have to take care of your brain just like you take care of your body.”

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver (and Super Bowl LIX champion!) A. J. Brown has been open about his mental health since experiencing a mental health crisis in 2020. Since then, he’s become a true advocate for seeking help and destigmatizing conversations around mental health.

Thank you for speaking up about mental health, A. J.! 💚🦅

04/12/2024

The lotus flower makes its way through murky, muddy waters, in dark and suffocating conditions, making its way past obstacles toward the light, only to blossom beautifully at the top. It is not only unfazed by the mud in its path, it is nourished by it! And much like the lotus, we trek through life's challenges and darkness, learning and growing with each experience, shaped and stretched by everything that we initially think is "in our way," when in reality, every difficulty and heartache, disappointment and hardship, are all essential to our immeasurable and unique beauty. Just keep pushing toward the light, grateful for the lessons along the way, not resentful of them, because without the mud there could be no lotus. 🙏🪷

09/23/2023

“I’ve been doing good work lately. My schoolwork, I mean. God that sounds so nerdy. But this year I’ve been trying to make school less about the grade and more about doing work that makes me proud. To put it bluntly, I wrote some good fu***ng essays this year. There’s this one paper called The Term Paper. Every junior has to do it. It’s six to eight pages. Just say the words ‘The Term Paper’ to a sophomore, and they will cower in fear. It’s supposed to be the culmination of everything you’ve learned about literature. Everyone begins by making their proposal to the teacher. The coolest thing about essays, as opposed to say math, is that they're one of the only chances you get in high school to say something original. So I was like: ‘Let’s go, let’s push it.’ We were supposed to choose one book. But I told my teacher: ‘There’s an author I love named Kazuo Ishiguro, and I’d like to compare two of his books.’ She told me nobody had ever asked that before, but she let me do it. And for the longest time it seemed like I’d made a huge mistake. It took me six months. It was such a complicated argument, it took me almost twenty pages. I felt so tired. I had no idea if I was going to finish on time. Even with an extension, I turned it in fifteen minutes before the deadline. But when she gave me the paper back, she said something I couldn’t believe. She said: ‘This is graduate level work.’ It was the proudest moment of my life. It’s only been sixteen years, but still. Writing was never my strength. I think back to my crappy little paragraphs about ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ that I wrote in seventh grade. Even in eighth and ninth grade, my essays were still pretty s**t. But I started really working hard to make them better. And I just kinda kept working. And it wasn’t just six months that went into that paper. It was those six years of getting better. And I don’t know if it will get published or anything, that’s probably not something I can do. But for her to say that, it means my work is getting close to what people are actually doing out there in the world. I’m not sure if this makes sense. But it made me feel like I’m finally part of the world. Instead of just in it.”

07/05/2022

https://10daysofhappiness.org/

Free online program to boost your wellbeing

07/04/2022

05/31/2022

Anyone with a Florida library card can get a pass for admission to a state park

11/09/2021