Thank you so much for your support and for wanting to help. You are welcome to join me as we continue to fight to have a mental health curriculum added to the schools. When was the last time you used advanced calculus or trigonometry? How did memorizing the periodic table of elements help you when you were depressed?

So why aren’t we teaching our young people how to navigate life better? Why aren’t we giving them the tools to succeed?

When people ask how they can support my work, the answer is clear: become actively involved. Every effort, no matter how small, can make a meaningful difference in the lives of young people facing mental health challenges.

Mental health education deserves a permanent place in school curricula across the United States (and the world). If we begin teaching emotional awareness and coping skills at the elementary or middle school levels, children will be far better equipped to face the pressures that emerge in high school, college, and as young adults. By failing to provide this foundational support, we are leaving our future generations unprepared and abandoned. But this is something we can change together!

Life has changed dramatically since I was a teenager, and the challenges young people face today in their development, relationships, and sense of identity are unlike anything I’ve seen before. The constant pressure to create a perfect life on social media, the isolation, and the emotional ups & downs, create an environment where teens and young adults feel unhappy, exhausted, and unsure of who they truly are.

There is a growing body of studies, national surveys, and government reports that clearly illustrate how rapidly the mental health crisis among teens and young adults is escalating (more info on that at the end), so it’s time to provide them with help.

Not all teens and young adults have access to mental health treatments in the form of seeing a therapist and/or psychiatrist, but they can be provided with the information on how to empower themselves to change the way they feel.

Until we get a mental health curriculum added at schools, we can provide teens and young adults with their own manual of how to become happy (ish) and not cry every day.

This is what 7 to 5 is all about: Empowering teens and young adults, in an easy and simple way. I created this game and wrote this book with them in mind. The ideas and interventions are provided to them in a way that is fun and easy to follow, so they don’t feel powerless and succumb to their inner chatter.

In the words of the great Robin Williams, “we must help people be less afraid.”

If you have teens or young adults in your life (family members, friends, or neighbors), get the book for them. If you have financial resources and want to become involved by empowering teens and young adults, consider donating the book to libraries, community centers, juvenal detention centers, high schools, colleges, youth probation programs, outpatient mental health clinics, inpatient psychiatric units, residential treatment centers, primary care offices, youth shelters, homeless programs, anti-bullying organizations & non-profits, etc.

I believe 100% that this book can help people become more self-aware, understand why they think and act the way they do, become more self-compassionate, and learn to take action so they can improve their lives. By gifting this book, caring adults (parents, teachers, mentors) create a gesture of support (not just material, but emotional). It’s a way of saying “I see you, and I want you to know you’re not alone,” helping young people feel less isolated and more understood at a time when their mental health often determines their entire trajectory.

I don’t have social media (and I’m not planning on getting it either, LOL), but you can support my mission by posting on your social media about the book, parts of the book that you like, how you’re playing the 7 to 5 game, the pictures you colored, or how the book has helped you or someone you know. If you reach your own “aha moments” or insights, share those with the people you know… Share your knowledge and become an advocate for growth!

This book is not a magic pill to make everything better, but it contains information that can make a difference in this human experience.

I wish I could donate the book for free to all who I feel could benefit from it, but unfortunately, I don’t have the resources. However, if you want to learn to play the game and you want to read the book, but you don’t have money to buy it, PLEASE, PLEASE, contact me, and I’ll make sure to send you one of my own copies… I mean it! Send me an email or a text with your information, telling me why you’re interested in it, why you think it could help you, and why you’re unable to pay for the book, I’ll figure out a way to hook you up! :)

I am humbled by the overwhelming support I am receiving with this book. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Let’s continue working together to have government officials include mental health as part to the school curriculum… this is important!

If you want to contact “important people” about adding a mandatory mental health class at schools, please feel free to use my letter (included here) as a first draft, just adapt it with your information/school district/state.

Thank you for caring!

Blessings & love,

Angela

240-500-0593