The Headway Project
Promoting Positive Mental Health
What is The Headway Project?
The Headway Project is a website designed to promote improved mental health. It is built around the TEACH Model, a system of understanding and managing, Thoughts, Emotions, Attention, Connections, and Health in ways that build practical skills in each of these areas, leading to a more balanced, healthy, and enjoyable life.
After the overview of each area of the TEACH Model, we suggest daily practices that will help you gradually build strengths in each area. We offer a variety of ideas to browse, intending to pass on strategies that have been helpful to others.
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Mental and emotional health can be challenging in today’s world, where resources are scarce and reliable information is hard to find. Headway is a non-profit organization intended to provide helpful information without any agenda other than improving the health and well-being of the individual. The simple pleasures of improved relationships, better health, and discovering more meaning and purpose in life are available. The Headway Project will help you with your journey.
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Our approach is to shift away from focusing on conditions or problems that people may have and instead focus on the things we can all do to improve our well-being. This change in focus recognizes the common core of humanity: that we are all flawed and at times, everyone struggles.
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The TEACH model is unique in providing a system of care that addresses mental health comprehensively. It is a systemic approach to well-being in which adjustments in each area complement one another.
We are committed to helping people understand the power of Thoughts, Emotions, Attention, Connections, and Health and how these areas work together to improve the quality of life. We also welcome your feedback and suggestions to help us identify additional information that we can share with others.
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Welcome. If you want to improve your mental health, you have come to the right place.
The Headway Project is here to Help.
We offer practical and effective daily living strategies backed by research and inspired by many years of clinical practice. Explore real-life stories from clients, summaries of helpful articles, links to other websites, videos, and downloadable forms to prompt new behaviors and monitor your progress. We also offer activity packages to help children and families develop helpful skills. Start with the Thoughts section and work through each section systematically, but feel free to bounce around to topics of interest. Return to the website often, as there is much to be found.
Maintaining mental balance requires small, frequent adjustments. At the macro level, the TEACH model adresses: Thoughts Emotions, Attention, Connections, and Health. Information provided in each area will help you improve comfort and peace of mind. At the micro level, the TEACH program encourages: Tiny, Easy, Attractive, Consistent, Habits. These small changes help you fine-tune your system and over time, accumulate into improvements that help you find the healthy balance we all seek.
The information provided on this website is intended for informational purposes only. The information should not be used to diagnose or treat a health problem or disease or prescribe medication or other treatment. Always speak with your physician or healthcare professional before taking medication, nutritional herbal, or homeopathic supplements or using any treatment for a health problem. If you suspect that you have a medical problem, contact your healthcare provider promptly. Do not disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking professional advice because of something you have read on this website. Information provided here and the use of product or services purchased from our website by you does not create a doctor-patient or client-patient relationship between you and any of the physicians or professionals affiliated with our website. The Food and Drug Administration has not evaluated information and statements regarding dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.