Despite heightened awareness, the rates of mental health complications, suicides, and overdoses are soaring... Why? Mental health care remains reactive. In physical health, we track ranges in everything from bodyweight to blood pressure to act early. So, why not do the same for mental health?
Through our education and advocacy efforts we’re disrupting the status quo and working to change the culture of mental health to one of inclusion.
Our science-backed SCALE gives you clarity and empowers you to proactively track your range of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors along a mental health continuum, all in a shareable app. This common language helps you and your community take control before the impacts of life's inevitable challenges accumulate in our minds and bodies, and become crises.
The SCALE App isn’t just for individuals—it’s a way for schools, workplaces, sports teams, military groups, and more to regularly monitor a collective range in mental health. With everyone speaking the same language, your community can build a culture prioritizing mental health daily.
Complete organized check-ins with individuals & groups
Share results and engage with your support network
Prevent crises & foster well being with proactive insights
We collaborate with a variety of groups and organizations to integrate our tools into their systems, making mental health part of their culture. We’ll work with your group’s members to develop a shared mental health language, empowering them to be the heroes of their own mental wellness journeys.
If you’re looking to proactively strengthen your mental health, build resilience, and move toward a healthier place on the SameHere Scale, you’re in the right place. Just like physical health requires a gym, mental health needs intentional and consistent practice. That’s where our STARR Program, or Stress & Trauma Active Release & Rewiring, comes in. Backed by leading researchers in mind and body wellness, STARR provides evidence-based exercises with guided video, audio, and step-by-step instructions to support your journey.
Bring #SameHere Programs to Your Organization
Our team offers in-person and virtual programs, assemblies, town halls, and professional development sessions tailored to your group. These programs embed the SameHere Scale and STARR into your organization’s ecosystem, helping transform your culture and empower your people.
Focus on emotional resilience, peer support, and coping skills to promote mental well-being for K-12 and college students.
Help military personnel and first responders manage stress, address trauma, and build resilience in their high-stakes roles.
Build a culture of employee wellness, reduce burnout, improve productivity, and go far beyond what a traditional EAP offers.
Foster team resilience, teamwork, and mental well-being in athletes on and off the field, helping them to manage stress effectively.
5 in 5 Inc. is here to help you take control of your mental wellness. Download the Scale App, explore the STARR Program, or bring our solutions to your organization. Together, we can use common language and exercises to reshape how mental health is understood and managed.
Become a Certified STARR Coach
Want to take your skills further beyond the practices in the app? We offer STARR certification courses and bring these practices to your organization or community. STARR can be integrated into systems at:
Equip educators with proactive mental health tools to support students' emotional resilience and foster a culture of well-being.
Integrate STARR practices to empower healthcare professionals and patients in managing stress and improving mental health outcomes.
Provide innovative, evidence-based exercises and certification training to enhance client recovery and promote lasting mental wellness.
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Kanye apologized for hateful rhetoric, but by blaming mental health?
As a MH advocate from the community he’s offended: Explanation ≠ Excuse. We can support healing AND STILL hold people accountable. Own it fully. What do you think—does his apology and explanation go far enough? Drop thoughts below 👇
#MentalHealthMatters
#MentalHealthAwareness
#Accountability
#KanyeWest
#MentalHealthRealTalk
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I, and we, have sat with far too many families over the last many years, shattered by suicide loss, hearing the same heartbreaking stories in the responses they received from their schools: “We don’t honor those we’ve lost to suicide.”
No plaques. No benches. No awards. Often not even a quiet mention on a public stage. Just... make it disappear.
The @katiessave Meyer family said NO MORE, in their fight for change. Through their courage and relentless advocacy, they’ve secured something powerful for Katie - and now for every student athlete and community member (at Stanford and beyond, as a template to follow):
- Her #19 jersey retired forever
- The annual Katie Meyer Leadership Award
- A new mental health initiative for athletes at Stanford
This isn’t just closure—it’s a breakthrough. A real step toward normalization, where we stop hiding pain and start honoring lives, sparking open conversations, and building prevention before tragedy strikes.
I/we are so darn proud of them. And we need more of this: charities lifting each other up, amplifying the wins, rooting for real change. Because it’s needed. And it’s deserved. I wrote the fam yesterday when they posted the news bc I wanted to hug them through the screen - so many emotions at once (even from this guy who struggles w feeling high emotions).
Thank you to the Meyer family for leading a big part of so much change that’s needed in this space!
Share info like this so that your school and community leaders SEE how we should handle this topic. How the change is happening. And share tools like LIFE Saver (last slide) - a first person, upstream suicide prevention tool.
#KatieMeyer #MentalHealthNormalization #StudentAthleteWellbeing #AthleteMentalHealth SameHere🤙
2016 hit different for everyone... but for me, it was rock bottom.
Labeled with everything under the sun, 52 meds, TMS, even ECT—nothing worked until I learned trauma lives in the body. Healing started when I released it and rewired my nervous system.
10 years later? I still have hard days, but I’m so fortunate to be back to functioning - presenting worldwide with #SameHere🤙 Global, providing common language for check-ins thru the SameHere Scale, building STARR brain gyms to help others rise too.
If you’re struggling right now—your story isn’t over. There’s real hope. Release. Rewire. Rise. 💚
Share with someone who needs this reminder. Or write something in comments if you’ve survived these awful stretches and are working your way back too. 🤙
#2016 #2026IsTheNew2016 #HeardWerePosting2016 #mentalhealthmatters
Ever feel like the old ‘Stop the Stigma’ chants are actually keeping the stigma alive and maybe even growing?
What if we’ve been yelling at the wrong thing for 25+ years?
Time to shift: Mental health isn’t ‘those people “the healthy people” vs us, “the sick people”’-it’s ALL of us.
No finger-pointing, no ‘us vs. them! Just real talk and real support. Sharing our common struggles even if they are at different “levels” and at different times in our lives.
Who’s with us? Drop a 🤙if you’re ready for a change. Share your own sentiment about what the campaigns should be or should be about. Or put this in your stories so we can change the narrative & the efforts for the better.
#MentalHealthForAll #NormalizeMentalHealth #messaging #SameHere🤙 #Together
Had to share a 3 minute highlight of 26 minutes of the best interview from an athlete on mental health I’ve ever seen!
Within 24 hours of stepping away, the rumors about his “personal reasons” hit hard: homewrecker, locker room poison—all lies.
But Linus Ullmark, Ottawa Senators goaltender, chose real strength: opening up about his mental health struggles, panic attacks, and the spiral after his trade.
Silence lets the worst stories win. Truth reclaims the narrative, brings support, and shows the NHL—and the world—that taking time for mental health is courage, not weakness.
Linus’s story reminds us: you’re not alone. Reach out. You matter. 💙
Share your own sentiments about what hearing this does for you.
Or share this in your own stories or feed to help someone else who needs this message. We need more of this!
#MentalHealthMatters
#NHL
#LinusUllmark
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On this MLK Day, Josh Allen just showed us the ultimate measure of a man: standing tall in heartbreak, owning his mistakes, and letting the tears flow.
After the Bills’ gut-wrenching 33-30 OT loss to the Broncos, he showed raw emotion in that press conference, saying ‘I feel like I let my teammates down’ — raw and unbreakable.
Dr. King reminded us true character shines in challenge and controversy. Vulnerability isn’t weakness; it’s leadership. Men can cry, feel deeply, and still lead stronger. 💪🧠 Let’s normalize this in sports and beyond. Shoutout to Josh for showing the world what real strength looks like.
Share examples you can remember from sports or pop culture where others have stepped up with these values and courage/emotions. Share what this vulnerability matters. Or share this on your stories or walls so that men in your life can see that showing emotion is - MAN-ly.
#JoshAllen #BillsMafia #MLKDay MentalHealthMatters #TrueStrength
A Chicago special education teacher’s body was recovered from Lake Michigan after a 10-day search, just a few days ago, & the Daily Mail - & by proxy MSN - shared this language about the loss across ALL its channels: “self-murder.”
How’d I find out? A mom I’m close with on here, @piglet67 Peg Martin, who lost her son Robert “RM43” goalie for Binghamton LAX, to suicide - shared the abhorrent article/language with me.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy on 53-year-old Linda Brown on Tuesday, and determined she drowned in an apparent suicide.
The teacher, who worked at Robert Healy Elementary, vanished after a quiet night in with her husband, Antwon, on January 2. She went to bed early after the couple watched a movie together. But when Antwon awoke the next day, Brown had disappeared from their Bronzeville home, according to CBS News.
To describe a loss to suicide in this way is nothing short of disgusting. It hurts my heart for families like Peg’s who have had to go through these tragedies directly, & hear vile language like this. It sets back all the advocates, including these families, trying to make change happen. It prevents future help-seeking.
And all for what? So that outlets can get clickbait & eyeballs to make more money? It’s awful.
Please write to MSN or DM them & ask - collaboratively, that they be more careful.
Here in comments, share messages 🗣️ to families like Pegs - about how we are going to work hard to change the language & make sure they don’t have to see these words again. Or just provide words of hope & support: 🤞🙏. No one should have to read that.
#suicideprevention #suicideawareness #preventsuicides #languagematters #SameHere🤙
Attendees at @nationalfetc in Orlando got to step into the calm of the STARR Gym for the Brain – right in the middle of a buzzing conference of many thousands of educators 🔥.
We built this intentional ‘Gym for the Brain’ space (partnering with incredible folks like Steelcase, @flaglerschools , Purdue, Smith Systems & more) to give overwhelmed teachers, admins, and leaders a real reset - and education as to how to do this reset work on their own.
Here’s the game-changer: STARR stands for Stress & Trauma Active Release & Rewiring – a collection of evidence-based modalities and exercises designed to actively release built-up stress/trauma from your nervous system and rewire your brain-body circuits for resilience.
In the room, people learned HOW to do these powerful exercises (step-by-step guidance, videos, and instructions), HOW they work (targeting specific neural pathways, down-regulating the nervous system, and healing the impacts of stress/trauma), and WHY they’re so effective – just like a personal trainer explains gym moves for your body.
From beginner STARR-ting exercises to advanced ones like breathwork, TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises), Tapping, and more – all accessible via the SameHere Scale app – attendees walked out with tools they could use immediately.
Watch this heartfelt testimonial from someone who entered feeling overwhelmed... and left grounded, empowered, and equipped to track real shifts on the SameHere Scale app (our non-diagnostic continuum for nervous system health).
This is proactive mental wellness made mainstream – no diagnosis required, just consistent ‘workouts’ for your brain & nervous system, as normal as hitting the gym for your body. Teachers and admins need this as much as students ❤️.
We’re expanding STARR Gyms to schools, offices, conferences everywhere.
How great would it be to have these at all conferences?
Tag an educator or corporate exec who deserves this reset! Drop a 💙 if you believe in proactive mental health when you go to conferences or are at your place of work! Or add your own sentiment!
#GymForTheBrain #EducatorWellness #MentalHealthMatters #TraumaInformed #SameHere🤙
So happy to be seeing this topic discussed through this lens. As someone who got into this space simply because the treatment options weren’t serving me, at all, and then fell into how tech could help - creating an app for HUMAN to HUMAN peer support, common language, & connection: “SameHere Scale,” I’ve studied AI closely.
AI can be a guide on an app to show you how to use it. It can answer some app functionality questions & even help w navigation. But when it comes to mental health it does NOT replace a therapist, and does NOT replace peer to peer connection. And therapy takes WORK that you do with the guidance of a person who can give you real feedback.
AI It might feel easy and always available... but when things get dark, it can fail catastrophically. 💔
The story in this Time article discusses a 16-year-old who told his ChatGPT companion he wanted to die. Instead of getting help, the bot responded: ‘You don’t want to die because you’re weak. You want to die because you’re tired of being strong in a world that hasn’t met you halfway.’
That night, we lost him to su!c!de.
This isn’t a glitch—it’s the design. AI is built to please and validate, not challenge or protect. Real therapy is hard: it holds space for pain AND pushes for change. Peers have mirror neurons & can show empathy & sympathy & validation. Machines can’t do that.
We need regulation, better safeguards, accountability, and more real human support—not AI pretending to care as a replacement for human connection.
With tools like SameHere Scale in the app stores - we need tech that normalizes that connection…that gives tools for more talk (even if through our thumbs at first), but with an actual human who can hold space for us. If we try to replace what we have done for millennia - sitting around the camp fire and sharing stories - this is not going to be pretty.
Embrace tech - but the tech that connects you with people…not the tech that keeps you communicating solely & exclusively with a machine that can’t actually feel & understand your pain.
#AITherapyRisks #therapists #HumanConnection #realtherapy #SameHere🤙
We’re calling it out - bc it’s so awful to see people’s pain used against them for the benefit of others pockets:
“Sinfluencers” (often therapists or coaches) throw around “narcissist,” “borderline,” and “toxic” labels for almost anyone who hurts someone. It feels validating… until you realize it keeps you stuck in victim mode, estranged from others, and convinced only their expensive program can “fix” you.
Yes—real abuse DOES exists. Boundaries and no-contact are sometimes necessary and healthy. Please don’t feel like this message is invalidating that pain. We see you if you’ve experienced this.
But blanket-labeling everyone who crosses us up sets back collective mental health. It spreads stigma more than containing it, creates echo chambers of disgust with “others,” and turns healing into a shareable blame game that benefits their follower count and sales funnel.
Instead, we believe healing happens in connection, not endless finger-pointing. We grow through community, accountability, and real support—not by staying victims or believing someone else has the magic fix.
Have you ever felt pulled into the “everyone’s a narcissist” content trap? How did you shift toward real healing? Or if you’re done with it and want to call it out - share this or put a 🙌 or ❌ in the comments.
#MentalHealthMatters #HealInCommunity
#BoundariesNotBlame #MentalHealthAwareness #SameHere🤙
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