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Our Aevidum Mental Health Club hosted Kindness Week from March 11th to March 14th to encourage, promote, and embed extra kindness throughout our community. It was our hope that the week’s programming would strengthen the already-existing protective factors for mental health conditions that exist within our community, such as compassion and connection.

The Student Mentors had their third mentoring session at St. Mary Magdalen School on Wednesday. These sessions comprise of six senior mentors that have been carefully chosen to work with 7th and 8th graders at SMM. The students meet for thirty minutes in the library at St. Mary Magdalen. The students are separated by gender and have the opportunity to talk openly with Archmere seniors about particular topics they are curious about. We cover things such as time management, social issues, athletics, academics just to name a few. The middle schoolers enjoy hearing any kinds of advice our seniors have for them when it comes to making the most out of their high school experience.

Ask yourself, how have you been over the last couple of months? Have you been feeling low on energy? Unable to focus? Always feeling ready to take a nap? This time of year, some people are experiencing (SAD) Seasonal Affective Disorder. SAD is a type of depression that happens during certain seasons of the year, most often in fall and winter. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, less sunlight and shorter days are linked to a chemical change in the brain and can be a part of SAD, which is commonly called seasonal depression.