Category: Mental Health
Erin Harris: Aligning Personal Values with Meaningful Action
Erin Harris embodies the initiative and energy Doing Good enjoys seeing in volunteers. Eight months ago, she founded Un/Do Mindset, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health education and trauma recovery. A former teacher, Erin’s passion for this project is both inspiring and deeply personal. Her teaching career came to a heartbreaking end due to...
Beverly Powers: Finding Personal Value by Volunteering with Horses
By working with Freedom Reigns Ranch, Beverly Powers has not only nurtured her passion for horses but also found a sense of value following her divorce. Beverly relocated to Nashville three years ago after escaping an abusive marriage. There, she started a life coaching business in hopes of helping newly-divorced women discover their sense of...
A Mother’s Story
“I get more from volunteering than I give,” says Denise Stewart. “It gives me joy to watch how much NAMI’s programs that I teach, train and present help others.” NAMI Tennessee is the Tennessee chapter of the National Alliance of Middle Tennessee. She serves so people who want help with mental illness can get it...
Why do you volunteer?
What leads someone to become a volunteer? For Rachel Moore it started early. While still in school in Hickman County, Tennessee, she liked to read so she volunteered at her local library. And her mother always told her “You need to help someone whenever you can, because you may need help sometime, too.” For Rachel...
