The Essence of a New Day

This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good.

Submitted by one of our Family Members

Author: Anonymous

Good Day Fellow Family Members!!



I hope everyone is having a lovely summer! The weather has been such a nice change compared what we got the last couple of summers. I hope you all are making use of the sunshine and getting out and about. Walking, having BBQs and picnics, relaxing at the beach and lots of gardening!! Summertime is about family and warm weather always brings people together.


I still am glowing from our last family peer support potluck dinner meeting. It was so nice to see so many of you out. The food was absolutely delicious and it was so nice of our gracious family member to invite us all over to her beautiful beach home. It was an amazing opportunity to recognize the efforts of our 2 long time Family-to-Family teachers with their teacher certificates! Good work ladies, we are all so appreciative of all your hard work and dedication. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves as much as I did. I hope we will continue to get stronger and embrace others with the support we all deserve. Thank you for all of your contributions.


We are getting geared up for the fall around here. It’s been a busy summer and we are happy to be welcoming more family members through our doors. With the NAMI Family-to-Family program starting as well as our walking groups, Yoga and Tai Chi resuming, it’s also going to be a busy fall. Please remember if you have any suggestions for programming ideas, we are all ears!


Enjoy the long weekend everyone! Hope you all get a chance to take part of the festivities this at Summer in the Park. See you all at our next peer support meeting, Tuesday August 3rd at Nipissing Family, 6:30-8:30 p.m.


~April