May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about mental health and mental illness. Raising awareness is important, as it helps to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health, educate people about mental illness, and increase access to mental health resources. Here's what you can do to help! 

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a serious condition that can interfere with a person's life. People with SAD may have trouble working, going to school, or making friends. They may also have trouble forming romantic relationships. Yet, it is the most common anxiety disorder, affecting an estimated 15% of adults in the United States. Let's learn more!

Mental health awareness has gone main stream, with several top stars; such as Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Serena Williams, Pete Davidson and more, generously lending their voice and personal experience with mental health challenges, to help raise awareness. This, and other factors have played an important role in reducing stigma and normalizing conversations about mental health. Now that the conversation has started, it is important to understand commonly used – and misused - mental health terms and why they matter.

Anyone who has ever been in a mutually supportive, loving relationship knows just how wonderful it feels. Within the comfort and security of a loving relationship, you often feel protected, empowered, and confident. It is the perfect environment to grow and thrive. In fact, research has shown that love, within a healthy relationship, can have many therapeutic benefits to mental health, and can even help in the treatment of mental illness. 

There may be no better feeling in life than that of being “IN LOVE”. A new love, or even the potential for one, can bring intense feelings of infatuation, happiness, excitement, nervousness, attraction, and lust.  It can also bring physical symptoms, such as sweating, dizziness, pounding heart, appetite changes, insomnia and more. What makes us feel this way? It may feel like magic, but it is actually biology.  Let’s discuss the biology behind falling in love.

As a requirement to the receipt of Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funds for Sublette County by the State of Wyoming Department of Health a community needs assessment is to be conducted every three years. The goal of the 2023 Sublette County Community Needs Assessment is to better understand the needs of people who are in poverty in Sublette County Wyoming. Here are the January 2023 Sublette County Needs Assessment Report findings. 

This time of year, we can feel pressured, by ourselves and others, to make drastic and sometimes unrealistic New Year resolutions. In fact, maybe the kindest and most attainable way to improve ourselves, and manifest the story we want, is to simply make small, consistent changes each day that help us to be just a little bit better than we were yesterday.