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Let’s Talk About Mental Health: Harmony in the digital age of fitness
By Eileen Coil GUEST COLUMNIST
In today’s dynamic fitness and sports training landscape, technology plays a pivotal role in aiding athletes and health-conscious individuals in their quest for peak performance. From state-of-the-art tracking apps to advanced wearables like watches and heart rate monitors, there’s an abundance of data available to fine-tune training regimes and gain a competitive edge. However, as we embrace the digital revolution, it’s important to meld technological advancements with mindfulness, focusing on listening to one’s body, prioritizing mental well-being and reconnecting with nature.
Let’s Talk About Mental Health: Supporting mental health in kids and teens
By Nevada Reed GUEST COLUMNIST
Opportunities for self-comparison and judgment seem to be lurking around every corner for our kids, from social media influencers posting carefully edited scenes about their best life—or so it appears—to the latest news story about another student setting a new athletic record or getting a perfect ACT score. Our digitally connected society and the impacts of the COVID pandemic have led to different daily mental health pressures, which is reflected in ever-climbing rates of anxiety and depression across all age groups, including striking increases in children, teens and young adults.
Let’s Talk About Mental Health: FebrYOUary
By Michelle Nierling GUEST COLUMNIST
A solid foundation—it’s something necessary to build upon.
To build this foundation, no matter what the foundation is for, you need tools. A nail is just a sharp object without a hammer. You can’t just pour cement to build a foundation without the proper tools to level it out. We know we need tools in everyday living and building. Do you know what else society needs tools for? Building a better YOU.
Let’s Talk About Mental Health: A new year, a new you—are we buying into that?
By Allison Bradac GUEST COLUMNIST
We turn the calendar page to a new year. Once again, we see goals, resolutions and promises spike to a new all-time high. Our culture paints a picture that a new you—people often say “new year, new me”—can be our new reality. Do you buy into that? Isn’t being you enough? I think yes, you are enough.
Let’s Talk About Mental Health: Holidaze health
By Jeremy Harder GUEST COLUMNIST
Ski town facts—the hustle, bustle, and diverse social dynamics that often amplify mental health and substance use challenges, have arrived. For most of us, the motion has been set in force. Out-of-town drivers in mental lapses of wonderment of Big Sky poorly navigating 5,000-pound vehicles, frantic food shoppers filing through local markets with unattended carts, blind to people around them or lacking peripheral vision, and the youth running wild after being released from school for 12 and a half days, only to run amuck with visions of powdery ski days in the terrain park and never-ending bags of Nerds Gummy Clusters.
Let’s Talk About Mental Health: 100 days
By Andy Nagel EBS COLUMNIST
Age is just a number, and so is your number of days.
In today’s world of rapidly advancing technology, it’s easy to access data tracking our health, finances, energy consumption, and so much more. Much of this data serves as an aid to efficiently navigate our roller coaster of life. For many skiers and snowboarders, there is no greater data than the number of days we ski or ride in a winter season. We wear it like a badge of honor.