NAMI - Tuscaloosa

08/21/2026

🎤 Lived Experience Changes the Conversation

Facts can educate us. Stories can help us understand.

Through In Our Own Voice, trained NAMI presenters share their experiences with mental health conditions and recovery, helping audiences see the person beyond the diagnosis.

Want to bring this conversation to your organization?

📧 [email protected]

08/21/2026

🌿 You Don’t Have to Fix Everything Today

Some days, taking care of your mental health means accomplishing something.

Other days, it means giving yourself permission to stop.

Both can be progress.

Take what you need from today and leave the rest for tomorrow. 💚

08/21/2026

💚 Did You Know Our Programs Are Free?

NAMI Tuscaloosa believes cost shouldn’t stand between someone and support.

Our support groups and NAMI education programs are offered at no cost to participants.

That’s one of the reasons community support and fundraising matter so much.

Help us spread the word by sharing this post with someone who may not know we’re here.

08/20/2026

🤝 Support Can Look Different for Everyone

For one person, it may be therapy.

For another, medication.

For someone else, it may be a support group, family education, or simply having someone who listens without judgment.

There isn’t one “right” way to seek support.

What matters is finding what helps you.

08/20/2026

🧠 Mental Health Is Health

We talk about taking care of our blood pressure, getting enough sleep, eating well, and going to the doctor when something isn’t right.

Our mental health deserves that same attention.

Mental health care is health care. 💚

08/19/2026

👟 Help Fund Mental Health Support in Our Community

Our programs are free to the people who need them—but providing them takes resources.

Your NAMIWalks donation helps support NAMI’s work in education, support, advocacy, and community outreach.

Even a small gift becomes part of something much bigger.

💚 Donate to Team Tuscaloosa:
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08/19/2026

💚 **Thank You, Hope Grows Center for Counseling!**

We want to extend a special thank you to **Clint Stough of Hope Grows Center for Counseling** for joining us at our August NAMI Tuscaloosa meeting!

Clint’s presentation, **“Finding Space to Reconnect and Ground,”** gave us practical mindfulness strategies for slowing down, resetting, and caring for our mental well-being during busy and stressful seasons.

We’re grateful to Clint and Hope Grows for sharing their time and expertise with our NAMI community—and to everyone who joined us for the evening! 💚

08/18/2026

⏰ Connection begins in one hour.

There’s still time to join us at 6 PM tonight.

📩 [email protected] for the Zoom link. 💚

08/18/2026

💚 Tonight at 6 PM: NAMI Connection

You don’t have to explain everything to people who have been there.

Join our free, peer-led NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group tonight from the comfort of home.

🕕 6 PM | 💻 Online

📩 Contact Paul Elmore at [email protected] for the link.

Send a message to learn more

08/12/2026

Give young people the mental health tools and resources to thrive. Me in Mind by NAMI can help.

Download our free, hands-on activity bundles to:
💬 Start conversations that matter
💙 Build empathy + self‑awareness
🧠 Support positive mental health

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