June 2025 Reflections: Travel, Transitions & Looking Ahead

Sunny Naughton
Jul 1
2 min read

June was an interesting month! With just a handful of spring travel days left on the calendar, we wrapped up the season by continuing our work around Vermont while also turning inward, focusing more intentionally on self-care and wellness as we head into the second half of 2025.

At the same time, we've been adjusting our schedule and availability to best serve the clients and communities we’re so grateful to work with.

To kick off the month, we headed to southeast central Vermont to collaborate with Rutland Regional Medical Center’s Prevention Unit on a Storytelling 4 Advocacy program. Over the last year, as a certified Living Proof Advocacy Coach, we've developed this offering to support both youth and adults in using storytelling as a tool to further their personal and professional goals. We had the pleasure of working with three incredible student groups and are looking forward to continuing this work in the year ahead.

From there, we traveled to:

Milton for a Mental Health Literacy and Substance Misuse Prevention workshop
Burlington for a NAMI event
Killington for a Partner Collaboration Day representing our work with Vermont Care Partners and Mental Health First Aid through the AWARE grant

Virtually, our momentum continued with several UVM COPE classes, six Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) courses, and ongoing check-ins with collaborators before the official start of the summer slowdown.

Looking Ahead: July will be full of meaningful work, including more than half a dozen MHFA classes across the state—including Castleton, Vermont. We’ll also be heading to Montreal for the International Association of Cultic Studies Conference, followed by a series of Suicide Prevention trainings and events later this summer (more to come on that soon).

June was a fast-paced yet transitional month, both personally and professionally. Now, we're embracing a new, lower-impact schedule that allows us to move fully into this next chapter.