Welcome to Mental Health Advocacy Inc.

Founded 2010

Who we Are and What we Do.

We do not provide services, we provide opportunity

Learning Wellness

Learning Wellness is our natural next step. It means approaching health and mental health as an ongoing skill set—because we are not broken, defective, or flawed chemistry. We are people who can learn, grow, and deserve healthier ways of living. Since the dawn of time, we have learned what harms us and set it aside; we have learned what helps us and made it part of our lives. Building on science, Learning Wellness emphasizes education and supports the brain’s natural ability to mend and adapt, guiding us toward healthier minds. Wellness becomes doable, not just something we hope for. Most importantly, it reminds us that mental illness is not destiny—health is practice, and every small step is progress toward a stronger, more balanced life.

Peer Support

This video offers a warm, peer-to-peer conversation designed to make wellness feel approachable and practical. Instead of sounding like a lecture, it flows like a supportive chat with a trusted friend, highlighting everyday insights that anyone can relate to. The casual tone and natural setting help viewers feel at ease, while the message encourages hope, resilience, and self-discovery. By blending knowledge with lived experience, the video reminds us that wellness isn’t about being “fixed” but about learning, practicing, and growing together.

We Teach Coping Skills

Coping skills are practical tools we use to manage stress, emotions, and difficult situations in healthy ways. They aren’t complicated techniques reserved for therapists—they’re simple actions anyone can practice every day. Whether it’s taking a deep breath, writing down your thoughts, calling a friend, or listening to music, coping skills help calm the body and clear the mind so challenges feel more manageable. Learning and practicing these skills builds resilience over time, making it easier to face life’s ups and downs with balance and confidence. To learn more and find ideas you can try today, visit our Basics page and our Resources page.

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Path to Recovery

"Recovery comes from within the person with the right supports" - Marc Jacques.

This is evidenced by what you don’t see from these organizations who tout recovery services – you don’t see people leaving services and getting on with their lives.

What will you do to improve your health today

What will you do to improve your health today? What we all can and should do is commit to learning how to be well. Being well doesn't come from a pill, it comes from education. Pills are prescribed to us when we get sick, they are not healthcare. Pills are better described as Sick care. Healthcare are the things we do to keep ourselves healthy, both physically and mentally. The goal of Mental Health Advocacy Inc. is to connect us with information that teaches skills and techniques for optimum health. Our strategy then is to learn more and more ways to take care of ourselves. Watch some of our videos and try one - start small with one useful tip and build upon it. For beginners, we suggest exercising for just a few minutes in the morning like chair yoga, dancing in front of your TV to a music video, or an exercise channel, or simply taking a walk before breakfast. Speaking of Breakfast, a very healthy thing to try is to increase the time between our last meal at night and our first morning meal. A good first good step is to replace sugar with Stevia™. Eat less butter and more olive oil, you can start by cooking with half butter and half olive oil. To improve your health, we advocate getting smarter. What will you do to improve your health today? Get smarter, start watching our recommended videos now.

Sustained Recovery

Sustained recovery is tied directly to improving our health, it’s about movement, doing better – not doing the same thing year after year with no improvement.

Our strategy for sustained recovery is to offer opportunities for acquiring knowledge that will empower us. The objective is to build a network of healthy people through education and by fostering community connections. We can’t stress more strongly that sustained recovery does not come from pills, but in learning how to not need them through skills building. Medication may be helpful in the short term, but you should know that nearly all clinical treatment guidelines say not to use medications long term. Sustained recovery requires different expectations around treatment. We talk frankly to our prescriber and ask for a recovery plan to move away from lack of progress. From our perspective, an important lesson to learn is not to be tied at the hip to our provider in an endless and pointless cycle of dependency. The truth of the matter is that they cannot make us well, only we can do that. We must unlearn the unhealthy patterns of being a ‘client’ and take back control of our own health as self-advocates. Sustained recovery is tied directly to improving our health, it’s about movement, doing better – not doing the same thing year after year with no improvement. If they are not helping us improve our health, seek out the services from organizations who are not motivated only by our insurance money, but have a record of helping people get well. Join us in that first step of a supportive environment where each step forward is celebrated and shared among peers committed to mutual growth.