Welcome to One Clear Step

A New Publication and Community for Accelerating and Celebrating Mental Health

One Clear Step is a new Medium publication—designed to help a global community of humans to actively practice healing, growing, and celebrating their mental health.

One Clear Step will provide a unique library of simple mental health actions that can be searched, practiced, and shared among professionals, friends, families, community members, and co-workers to promote mental health.

Later in this article I’ll show you how you can participate with others using One Clear Step—creating your own personal circles of support and drawing upon mental health practices of your choosing.

The idea for One Clear Step arose from conversations I’ve had with close friends who are professionals in the mental health field. What became apparent in these conversations was the need to help individuals directly access evidence-based practices they can self-apply for therapeutic benefit. As I have shared the vision of One Clear Step with others, a team of supporters has been naturally forming.

We see a community of caring and sincere mental health advocates—from professionals to ordinary citizens—who want to promote mental health for themselves, for their loved ones, and for the world.

Mental health requires dedication and practice like any other skill or health concern.

These are examples of accepted efforts we all make to protect things we value. And exactly what to do to maintain them has been well-documented and is publicly accessible.

The delicacy and nuances of mental health and the inner workings of the human psyche has made the “how to” part of mental health harder to pin down, share, and promote.

The research, care, diagnosis and treatment of mental health needs have been largely left to professionals. Indeed, trained mental health…

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