Proceeds from “Everybody Has Mental Health” supports Leverette’s mental wellness initiative, The Abeze Project. Its message, “What’s Your Mind Grind,” encourages people to recognize what is weighing on their minds and have the comfortability and know-hows to navigate it healthily. Abeze is also built on the framework of Awareness, Balance, Empower, Zeal and Encouragement. The framework helps people have emotional awareness, balance, feelings of empowerment to make health choices, a renewed zeal for life, and ways to encourage themselves and others. Through the framework, Leverette wants to help guide people through their emotions and mental health, letting them know it’s important to care for their mind. She notes she doesn’t diagnose people, but she does provide education, encouragement, resources, coaching and outreach to help make mental wellness easier to understand and help people be more comfortable with talking about their mental health.
Leverette says she wants to erase the stigma surrounding mental health.
“People think that [mental health] is a bad thing, but it’s really not a bad thing. Everyone has mental health just like everyone has physical health. We go to the doctor about our physical health for everything else and seek help for that. Why not try to seek help for our mental health?” Leverette asked.
Leverette wants to promote everyday mental wellness for all ages. She says she is working to get The Abeze Project out more since she believes it truly can help other people deal with their emotions.
“It’s just basically to help encourage people, teach people about and bring awareness to mental health, and also give them the tools and the necessary equipment and things that they need to help guide them through the day,” Leverette said. “Mental health helps people to deal with stress, emotions, and just the things that we go through every day. Like everybody goes through things every day. Mental health just helps us to deal with it better, to cope with it better, and that’s really what I want The Abeze Project to do, to create something to help people cope with their everyday challenges.”
