Jason Lennox, a Minnesota business owner is in the middle of a 307-thousand mile walk. <\/p>\n
He is dedicating it to the people who died in 2024 from substance abuse or mental health struggles.<\/p>\n
Jason Lennox’s father died at age 39, from cirrhosis of the liver, caused by alcohol abuse.<\/p>\n
His father’s death hit home, causing Lennox to go on his own path of mental health issues and substance abuse.<\/p>\n
Years after recovery… Lennox noticed a large number of deaths… from mental health and substance abuse.<\/p>\n
Those deaths… started “the Recovery Road” campaign.<\/p>\n
Lennox isn’t the only one on this Recovery Road…<\/p>\n
Multiple people joined his cause, including former Minnesota Vikings defensive end, Everson Griffen.<\/p>\n
Everson Griffen\/former NFL player\/2:15<\/p>\n
If I had Jason my NFL career, I still be playing right now, Griffen said.<\/p>\n
In recent years, Griffen has been through some of his own mental health struggles.<\/p>\n
Saying that walking many miles with Lennox by his side has taught him a lot.<\/p>\n
“You just find good habits, good routines, and good disciplines to be able to identify your weaknesses and grow, Griffen said.<\/p>\n
Lennox’s trip ends in Nashville, where he’ll be speaking at the InVest behavioral conference on October 22nd.<\/p>\n
to advocate for more funding and resources for those struggling with mental health issues.<\/p>\n
He is encouraging people going through tough times to “hang on one more day”<\/p>\n
because you never know what will flip the switch….<\/p>\n
I always say it’s up to us to reach out to them, Lennox says.<\/p>\n
Lennox’s campaign also includes a fundraiser to open mental health and substance abuse facilities. <\/p>\n
The goal is $307,000, each dollar attributed to a person who passed in 2024 from either cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Lennox, a Minnesota business owner is in the middle of a 307-thousand mile walk. He is dedicating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6017,64,63,129475,129474,137,129473,514,515,129472,8123,29595],"class_list":{"0":"post-210219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-advocacy","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-behavioral-conference","12":"tag-everson-griffen","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-jason-lennox","15":"tag-mental-health","16":"tag-mentalhealth","17":"tag-recovery-road","18":"tag-resources","19":"tag-substance-abuse"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}