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Thanks @Kim!

Oh I forgot to add- loved the “seasonal” connections our group was making. Changing your zoom location’s decor “Spruce Up Your Space” to making recipes with local season food. Different ways to show time is progressing.

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Well done, Darryl. Thanks for the excellent summary.

Embedding resilience building tools throughout the community's traditional safe spaces and places of gathering.

Hello Kylie and Ellen. Watching from South FLorida

Thank you for adding the additional resources in the Chat..YOu and Brother Kwesi were wonderful!!!!!

Care for self and care for others. Get out in fresh air daily - sunshine is healthy in bits and pieces. Seeking nature is healing and grounding.

HI MOM!!!

Love a Self-Care Plan.

Call them out to call them in.!

YES self care plan!!!

You and Erica were wonderful!!!!!!

Great recap Davina!!!

Love that! I wrote down the foods that I like and movement that I enjoy so when I am feeling down and overwhelmed I have something to look at instead of think about it!

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Check In With Yourself EVERYDAY!

Six Daily Questions to Ask Yourself in Quarantine1. What am I grateful for today?2. Who am I checking in on, or connecting with, today?3. What expectations of “normal” am I letting go of today?4. How am I getting outside today?5. How am I moving my body today?6. What beauty am I creating, cultivating, or inviting in today?

Thank you Stanley!

Love these questions. Not just for quarantine.

I finished Braving the Wilderness by Brene’ Brown yesterday (audiobook from the library!!!) and it’s a great book for such a time as this

Thank you Ericka!!!!!!!

My pleasure!

Lean toward the Light.

Thank you Alicia for your comments.

What were the three “self-“ categories mentioned by Simone?

YES YES!!! Breathe! Affirm! Laugh!Embrace! Connect!MOve!!!

Thank you to Alicia and Leslie! You and your team have done a PHENOMENAL job bringing this experience forward to the community. So glad to be a part of it!!

beautiful!

Beautiful!

Take it away Mrs Jaki

Here is a link to the video from Rising Appalachia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx17RvPMaQ8

Thanks everyone for great information and an engaging experience.

Powerful! Inspiring! Restorative! Thanks much, Leslie, IES Team and Presenters!

+1 “pandemic as portal”

The heart has a natural instinct for love, and truth and justice.....LOVE IT!

+1 “Fears come in bundles”

Uncertainty does not hold me hostage. Disarm fear - Focus on positive feelings!

See all that is right and not on all that is wrong. Tough challenge - accepted!

I ❤️ my bed

Kindness DOES NOT cost a thing!

Perfect in every way. No words!

AMEN, great benediction!

Wow!! Amazing message!! Thank you!!

Give Grace and receive it...palms up and open

Live a life of ABUNDANCE not out of surplus but out of substance!!!!!

Thank you to the Duke Endowment, and especially their support of rural faith leaders (hi y’all! Glad you’re here)

Join us for FREE Mental Health First Aid and QPR Suicide Prevention Courses!Register Here: https://app.etapestry.com/cart/MentalHealthAssociationofC_2/default/index.phpMHA's FREE, CONFIDENTIAL, ONLINE mental health screening tools:https://www.mhacentralcarolinas.org/screeningtools.cfm

Thank you all! And thank you to our National Advisory Board Members that joined us today!

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Outstanding!

Great job Alicia and TEAM IEI -- a second convening on mental health is needed.

Mental health resource guide: https://iei.ncsu.edu/reconnectnc/mental-health-resources/

I agree. Some real alchemy here today.

Continue to find the courage move upstream as well as downstream!!!

Thank you for this offering. This is an amazing team. Excellent presenters. Thank you for each and every one who provided windows into areas of expertise.

Thank you so much, everyone!

Amazing, thank you!

Great job IEI!

Thank you everyone.