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💡Did you know about the mental health parity act of 1996?

🏥 It provided large group health plans can’t impose annual or lifetime dollar limits on mental health benefits that are less favorable than any such limits imposed on medical/surgical benefits.

🟰When a plan has parity, it means that if you are provided unlimited doctor visits for a chronic condition like diabetes then they must offer unlimited visits for a mental health condition such as depression or schizophrenia.

🔍However, parity doesn't mean that you will get good mental health coverage.

🟡 Here are 3 steps you can take to gain access to good mental health coverage:

1. Look for in-network mental health providers. By staying within the insurance network, you can find providers at a more affordable cost who have been reviewed by the carrier. Most insurance carriers give you the capability to search by location and language.

2. Invite your mental health provider to become an in-network resource. Most insurance carriers have a process to recruit providers into their network which can include participation referrals. Call the number on the back of your insurance card to find out more about the process.

3. Advocate for the care you need. If you’re having trouble finding or paying for a mental health provider, reach out to HR or your health insurance company to ask about your options for care. When benefits have gaps, your voice helps us to identify what needs to be solved. Share your story.

Healthcare is a Human Right ✊🏾

👩🏾‍💼 As an Employee Benefit Expert, I learned early on that access to healthcare is a privilege and even if you can afford it, you still need help to understand it.

👩🏾‍🏫 I made it my mission to increase Benefits literacy in my workplaces and connect employees and their loved ones to the care they needed.

👉🏾The next phase of my work is to help bridge the gap in the US by increasing the and design and delivery of across industries.

🤲🏾 To better serve my community and clients, I constantly push myself to learn, evolve, and share best practices.

👩🏾‍🎓Gaining a certificate in from helps me to better understand the landscape from the provider point of view. I’m now more equipped to help employers, employees, and those on someone else’s plan to make better decisions.

🙏🏾 Thanks to my clients and the entire Rosebud community for letting me help you along your journey to wholistic wellbeing. I promise to keep evolving and advocating to progress

HR can be a lonely job. 😕

Not only can you face , , and feeling , but you can feel like you just don't belong.

On this episode of Reach Your Ultimate Potential Podcast, host Ben Eden and I discuss this and more:

🟡 Recontract boundaries with yourself

🟡 Take breaks

🟡 How to feel like you belong

🟡 Separating who you are from what you do

🟡 The value of reconnecting to your humanity

Click the 👆 to take a listen.

Want to learn how to design benefits in an inclusive manner?

Join me and on Tuesday, April 12 @ 6:30 PM ET as we discuss what employers and employees can do to craft solutions that account for the whole person.

See you there! 👋🏾

👉🏾 Are you responsible for advancing , , and in your workplace?

👩🏽‍💻Then this workshop is for you!

🚪Barriers to systemic change damage to our health.

🤲🏾 We believe it's critical to provide support on the individual level at the same time as advocating for change at the organizational level.

🌱 Year of Living Better® is honored to offer the Self-Care for DEI Leaders: Hands-on Workshop for More Resilient Self-Care workshop developed to immediately address your unique emotional health needs.

🤝Join UCLA trained mindfulness educators, and .means.love in community with me as a special guest as we share powerful, trauma-informed tools for crafting a more resilient self-care plan.

💻 During this hands-on workshop, we will review the challenges of our traditional view of self-care, including why some of our favorite resources can suddenly fall flat.

🧠 Expect to learn new concepts of self-care based on leading research as we walk through the practical steps of creating a more resilient, personalized self-care plan.

Your learning outcomes for this event:

🟡 Understand the 3 state model for our nervous system as a framework for wise self-protection.

🟡 Practice identifying physical sensations related to your nervous system states and learn a mindfulness practice for immediate, temporary relief.

🟡Design and prepare to experiment with a personalized approach to self-care to match the unique needs of each state.

🖱Use the to register today. See you there 👋🏾

Note: Given the sensitive nature of this event, it will not be available as a replay. The organizers will record segments of the event for their own reference only.

🍽 Want to have lunch with me?

🤩 In celebration of National Employee Benefits Day on April 5, I’m running a contest to celebrate the many rockstar Employee Benefits Professionals.

⏱ To enter, tag your fave Employee Benefits Professional to this post by 11:59 ET on April 4.

🎟 On April 5, I will pick an entry at random as the winner and make the announcement in my stories.

🏆 The winner will receive a gift card and we will dine virtually for an hour at a time and date of their choosing.

Here’s some stuff my lawyers told me to say:

Contest is in no way endorsed or sponsored by Instagram. Just wanted to celebrate my fellow Employee Benefits Professionals for all the meaningful work they do and say Thank You! 🙏🏾

💭 Are you dreaming of taking the next step in your career but not sure where to go?

🧭 Or are you interested in starting or taking your side hustle to the next level?

🍳Well grab your Brunch and join .blueprint.180 & myself to learn how to move from “either/or” to “yes/and” thinking and make this your year.

Click the 👆🏽to RSVP.

👋🏾 See you there!

🔍 How are you linking your and strategies to your total rewards offerings?

🌟 To attract and retain talent across all diversity dimensions, you must be able to meaningfully invest in their

💪🏾 Physical Wellbeing

🧠 Mental Wellbeing &

💰 Financial Wellbeing

Join and I for an informative discussion on February 22 at 6:30 pm ET on to learn how to drive a culture of inclusion through

🤗 I’m thrilled to bring my signature talk on to !

💛 As an advocate of I’m impressed with how Fringe empowers employers to provide their people with lifestyle benefits that can be personalized to reduce stress, give time back, impact the family, and spark joy.

✍🏾 To book me as a for your next corporate event, visit my speaker site at the

🕵🏾‍♀️ Searching for top talent? Hire a vet!

🏅Your organization will gain high-performing employees with low turnover and a reputation boost from intentionally building a more inclusive workplace.

👩🏾‍💼 As an employer, you should incorporate for this employee community by providing:

🧠 Mental Health Resources that address conditions such as PTSD

💰Financial Resources that address money management and retirement planning

🧭 Career development opportunities including training and mentoring programs

⭐️Veterans have great leadership skills, are accustomed to dealing with complex and changing circumstances and are agile in learning new skills.

👩🏽‍💻Every organization should strive to be an employer of choice for this community.

❔What are your pronouns?

👩🏾 Mine are she/her/hers.

🗓 On October 20, 2021 you have the opportunity to be an ally to the trans and non gender conforming people.

🤝You can make offering personal pronouns part of the introduction process at your workplace.

📧 You can ask employees to include their personal pronouns in their email signature.

📄 Longer term find ways to include asking for personal pronouns as part of the interview and onboarding process.

💛 Nothing may be more personal than the way people refer to us though our name and our pronouns. So let’s choose to treat each other with dignity.