NAMI NYC In Our Own Voice Training May 5,2024 by Lady Charmaine Day

#HelloBeautiful!!!When you speak to others you sow seeds into their lives. You don't know what will grow and bear fruit. That's not your job, you job is to sow seeds. Today I had the honor to do a NAMI NYC In Our Own Voice (IOOV)training with Miguel Anderson. Miguel and I were trained together to be trainers in St. Louis in 2010. They say it takes teamwork to make the dream work, well it certainly was the combination of Miguel Anderson,Karin Broberg and Barbara Duenas to have certified all 7 trainees who came and did a phenomenal job becoming presenters for IOOV presentations. I am soooooo proud of each of them. It was a blessed day. Here's a picture of the class missing Barbara who was taking the picture. Right now I am thinking about the seeds I have sown since 2008 for reducing the stigma of mental illness, and showing hope for recovery and success after being diagnosed with a mental illness. 
Doing presentations, training and teaching for NAMI NYC Metro, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, I love doing this volunteer work. It is near and dear to my heart because I am a person who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is in recovery. To go to different places telling my story as part of NAMI's In Our Own Voice Program, Ending The Silence, Hope For Recovery, and Peer to Peer Recovery Education Class feels my heart with joy. I always say if I can reach one person then it's a job well done. I know at the end of an encounter, I feel that I have reached more than one person from the response and feedback from the coordinator. To receive emails saying that I encouraged somebody just makes me want to do more and more. I encourage you to find a charity that you are interested in and volunteer so that you can feel what I feel.Volunteer with a school, church, charity, organization or hospital to help others. By volunteering you are giving back to your community and to the world by making things better. Volunteers often help others deal with problems they have conquered and/ or recovered from. Volunteering will allow you to support causes that you believe in and are passionate about. Volunteering will help you, help yourself!
Until next time, take care of yourself and stay special!!!
#LadyCharmaineDay
NAMI In Our Own Voice Statewide Trainer
www.ladycharmaineday.com
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