{"id":12,"date":"2022-03-06T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2022-07-18T20:08:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T02:08:16","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>What Lead Sunshine to Create This Website:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During my journey to find more resources and guidance to help my loved ones with their mental health, I found myself continuously running into the issue of not finding activities or actions they could take at that present moment to help themselves. They wanted to help themselves right then and there but they did not know where to start.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In my research the action that was recommended the most was to seek a therapist or counselor. Although therapy is a wonderful first step to help one\u2019s self improve their mental well being, especially since its guidance is tapered to one&#8217;s situation, it is not always the most accessible or available thing to do, especially during times of crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through research and talking with many people from friends, family, and professionals, I was able to gather a great list of activities and resources one can turn to, to use during different times and situations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This website is my attempt to put together actions and tools to help those who do not have access to seek professional help at this moment. As I put together this website, I have recognized that not all mindful practices and activities will work for everyone; therefore, I hope by having a variety of resources this will help one find something that works for them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the creation of this website I continuously ran into the difficulty of finding resources that could be easily accessible and easy to navigate. Therefore, I hope by sharing my knowledge through this website it will take some work off of one&#8217;s shoulders because how could one who is struggling and barely have motivation to help themself do this research on their own and then actually get the motivation to do these things? This question is what led me to create a website because I wanted a specific place where people could go that would be easy to navigate and use to seek some sort of help for the present moment and future moment to come.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1.5rem\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/learn\/\">Learn<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/learn\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-151\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_0023-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_0023-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_0023-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_0023-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_0023-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_0023-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_0023-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Photo Credits: Sunshine Eaton)<\/p>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/topics\/\">Resources<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/topics\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-170\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_2791-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_2791-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_2791-300x143.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_2791-1024x489.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_2791-768x367.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_2791-1536x733.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_2791-2048x978.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>\u00a0(Photo Credits: Tunte Vigil)<\/a><\/p>\n<h1><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/self-care-activites\/\">Self Care Activites<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/self-care-activites\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-171\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_0799.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"1010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_0799.jpeg 828w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_0799-246x300.jpeg 246w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2022\/05\/IMG_0799-768x937.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Photo Credits: SunnyRose Eaton)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Lead Sunshine to Create This Website: During my journey to find more resources and guidance to help my loved ones with their mental health, I found myself continuously running into the issue of not finding activities or actions they could take at that present moment to help themselves. They wanted to help themselves right &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":870,"featured_media":155,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/anthropology-20624-shining-through-the-shadows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}