Healthy living can change your life

Take charge of your Health

From SCOPE the Stanford Medicine blog post, Taking Depression Seriously: Why Healthy Living Matters – “While medicine and talk therapy are vital to treating depression, cultivating better health habits can help promote and sustain a better mood. Working to improve diet, physical activity, weight, sleep, stress, and social support can make you feel significantly better.”

Are you a veteran? Lean more about the VA’s focus on Whole Health medical care at https://www.va.gov/wholehealth/

Important note: There are many treatable chronic illness and behavioral health problems that may present as depression. Please speak with your primary care, medical care specialist and behavioral health providers to discuss how you are feeling and to help you choose the medical and lifestyle change options best for you. 

Have Hope - Wellness is Within Reach

Today, depression and other mental health conditions are treatable with a wide spectrum of medical care options for all ages. Sometimes, though, it might feel like your mood never changes, that maybe what you are doing is not enough. You may wish you could do more to be the best “self” you can be. 

Certainly, the pandemic has taught everyone healthy living matters. But did you know healthy lifestyles also matter in the prevention, treatment, management and recovery of many mental health conditions? The growing body of evidence is confirming – What is good for your body is good for your mind as well!

Medical care treating the mind and body is moving toward “whole person health model” where your medical and behavioral health team of providers look at you at a whole person and work together with YOU to help you determine and meet your wellness goals today and into the future.

SAMSRI Embraces Hope and Health at our annual “Cross the Bridge to Hope” at the Pell Bridge Run!

In 2012, we at The Samaritans recognized the future of health care was trending toward healthy lifestyles as an important element in suicide prevention. Our annual “Cross the Bridge to Hope” walk/run event at the Pell Bridge Run not only commemorates and honors those lost to suicide but has also become a “wellness” event promoting healing and healthy lifestyles and support from a caring community of family and friends.

We encourage you to join us for this annual fundraising event. Join Team SamaritansRI when you sign up for the Pell Bridge run on Sunday, October 19, 2025. Register at http://www.pellbridgerun.com/. Want to donate to The Samaritans in support of this event? Visit our fundraising page.