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Ready to be uplifted, mind, body, and spirit? You’ve come to the right place. Making small, consistent strides toward your goals, like taking great care of yourself mentally and physically, can help you develop healthy habits that amplify your joy and enhance your life. Participating in the Brighter Days Challenge is a fantastic first step!
What is the Brighter Days Challenge?
It’s a month-long series of brief, uplifting challenges that set the tone for having a brighter day.
Here’s how to participate:
Sign up on your own to access inspiring activities that take under 15 minutes to complete.
Sign up with a buddy and you’ll also both get access to weekly Buddy Bonus Challenges, making your days even brighter and more engaging.
Share your experience with friends and family. It will feel great to relive the highlights and may inspire them to boost their well being too.
A new Brighter Days Challenge theme each week
Challenges that engage the imagination and inspire creative thinking around what wellness means to you personally.
Challenges that help you remember to put the oxygen mask on yourself first by suggesting accessible opportunities for self-care.
Challenges that explore different expressions of kindness and generosity– towards yourself and others.
Challenges that focus on taking action and completing unfinished tasks so that you have more energy to focus on what’s meaningful to you.
Plus… Bonus Badges
Participate in every challenge during a given week, and earn that week’s bonus badge!
How do I get started?
Simply sign up and gain access to a new and inspiring activity every other day that takes under 15 minutes to complete. Doing the challenge with a buddy? Awesome. Just check the buddy box and you’ll get the bonus challenges too.
Once you’re signed up*, you’ll receive a new challenge in your inbox every other day for a month.
* If you sign up anytime before May 1st, your first challenge will be emailed to you on May 1st.
Tight on time or motivation? Though Brighter Days is officially a month-long experience, you’ll have up to 90 days to complete all the challenges, or return to them to enjoy again. (from May 1st through July 31st 2024)
See a sample challenge
Receive a Brighter Days Ahead certificate when you’ve finished at least 75% of the challenges.
* If you sign up anytime before May 1st, your first challenge will be emailed to you on May 1st.
We know you care about mental health as much as we do. Show your support by joining us May 1st through July 31st.
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P.S.
If you’re doing this challenge in support of someone else, we also invite you to check out How Depression Feels and experience some of the challenges people with depression commonly face.
Questions?
Get more information.
We know you care about mental health as much as we do. Show your support by joining us May 1st through July 31st.
The State of Mental Health
IN AMERICA 2023
21
%
of adults are experiencing a mental illness.
Equivalent to over 50 million Americans.
16
%
of youth report suffering from at least one major depressive episode in the past year.
More than 27 million youths are experiencing severe major depression.
15
%
of adults had a substance use disorder in the past year.
93% did not receive treatment.
4.8
%
of adults reported serious thoughts of suicide.
Over 12.1 million adults.
11
%
of adults identified with two or more races reported serious thoughts of suicide.