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Founded on the premise of compassionate, understanding and standing together.

10/15/2026

Nearly one in three young adults between 18 and 25 experienced a mental illness in 2024. 11.6 million people.

That's the college freshman who calls home sounding "tired." The 23-year-old working two jobs and smiling through every shift. The kid who just moved back home and doesn't know how to say why.

This is supposed to be the "best years of your life" stretch — which makes it twice as hard to admit when it isn't.

If you're in that window: there's nothing wrong with you for finding it hard. And if you love someone in it, call them this week. Not to fix anything. Just to listen.

www.healingheightsfoundation.com

10/14/2026

Some of us will sit down to a holiday table this year with an empty chair.

A parent. A child. A friend. A marriage. A version of yourself you lost along the way.

Grief doesn't take the holidays off. If anything, it shows up early and stays late. And the pressure to be merry on top of it can feel like being asked to sing with a hand around your throat.

So here's your permission: say their name. Tell the story. Light a candle. Leave the room for ten minutes if you need to. You are allowed to miss someone out loud.

If the weight gets too heavy, call or text 988. 💚

www.healingheightsfoundation.com

10/13/2026

Some of the best conversations of the whole day happened between laps.

Walking back down, catching your breath next to someone you'd never met, somebody says "this is harder than I thought" — and suddenly you're talking about a lot more than the hill.

That's the quiet magic of doing hard things side by side. It loosens something. People say true things when they're too tired to pretend.

Two months later, I hope you're still having those conversations. Pick up the phone and have one this week.

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10/12/2026

Some of you climbed alone. Some of you climbed as a team. Both are brave. But there's something about watching a group slow down so nobody gets left behind.

That's what we want for everyone who's struggling: a team. People who match your pace when your legs are gone. People who don't count your laps for you, but won't let you forget how many you've already done.

To every team that climbed this year — thank you for showing us what that looks like.

Who's on your team? Tag them. Tell them. 💚

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10/11/2026

We put athletes on pedestals and then wonder why they're afraid to fall off.

In the NCAA's most recent health and wellness study, 44% of student-athletes in women's sports reported feeling overwhelmed. In men's sports it was 17% — and we have to wonder how many more just didn't say it.

The same discipline that gets you up at 5 a.m. for practice can convince you that struggling is a character flaw. It isn't. Grit and asking for help are not opposites. The strongest teams have a coach, a trainer, and someone to talk to.

To every athlete reading this: your worth is not your stat line.

www.healingheightsfoundation.com

10/09/2026

This year we didn't hand the microphone to one keynote speaker. We handed it to all of you.

Throughout the day, people from our own community stood up — mid-climb, out of breath, some of them shaking — and told the truth about the hills in their own lives. The ones nobody could see from the outside.

There's something holy about hearing a stranger say the thing you've never said out loud. You watch them form the words, and something in your own chest unlocks.

To every storyteller: thank you for your courage. You gave everyone on that hill permission to stop pretending.

Got a story of your own? We want to hear Why You Climb → healingheightsfoundation.com

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10/08/2026

Eleven years.

That's the average gap between when mental illness symptoms first show up and when someone finally gets treatment. Eleven years of "I'm fine." Of white-knuckling it. Of believing you should be able to handle this on your own.

Some of us know that gap from the inside.

On World Mental Health Day, here's what I want you to hear: you do not have to wait until it's unbearable to be allowed to ask for help. Earlier is not weaker. Earlier is brave.

If today's the day you shorten your own eleven years, start at healingheightsfoundation.com — or call or text 988 any time.

10/07/2026

Look around the next room you walk into.

More than 1 in 5 adults in this country lived with a mental illness in 2024. 61.5 million people. That's not a fringe statistic. That's your coworker, your neighbor, the guy ahead of you in the pickup line — maybe the person in your mirror.

Nobody talks about how ordinary this is. We talk about it like it's rare, like it happens to other people, and that silence is exactly what makes it heavy.

So let's make it ordinary to talk about. Ask someone how they're actually doing this week — then wait for the real answer.

Learn more and find support at www.healingheightsfoundation.com

10/07/2026

Three weeks later, I still have hill in my shoes.

Not literally. (Okay, maybe literally.) But every time I close my eyes I see it — that slope at Pioneers Park, covered in people who decided, on purpose, to climb something hard together.

Some of you ran it. Some of you walked it. Some of you sat down halfway and let the hill hold you for a minute before you got back up. Every single one of those laps counted.

Hell on the Hill 2026 is over. What you built out there isn't.

Thank you, Lincoln. From the bottom of a very tired heart.

You can rest. You can ask for help. But you cannot quit.

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09/14/2026

It usually takes me a day after Hell on the Hill to gather my thoughts.
To come down from the adrenaline. To process the conversations, the stories, the tears, the laughter, and everything that happened on that hill.
This year felt different.
It was more emotional for me. The stories hit closer to home. The conversations felt deeper.
And I keep coming back to this:
The people who showed up were the people who were supposed to be on that hill.

Some came for themselves. Some came for someone they love. Some came for someone they lost. Some came because they believe nobody should have to go through the hard stuff alone.
And some healing happened on that hill.
The weather held out.
The morning was beautiful. And our community showed up.

To every person who walked, ran, climbed, cheered, volunteered, shared a story, hugged someone, took a lap for someone else, or simply stood beside another person, thank you.
None of this morning happens without the businesses and people who believed in the mission and gave to make it possible. From the bottom of my heart, thank you:

The Charging Station — a special shout-out for keeping everyone fueled with coffee and drinks all morning.
Amy Fries, Realtor
HOME Real Estate
Home Services Title
Three Pillars Performance
402 Title Services
Kinkaider Brewing Co.
Wade Bartels
Altitude Motion Motion
E.T Sweets
Stacy Ideus Photography — for capturing the morning so we can hold onto it.

You believed in the mission and helped us create a place where people could show up exactly as they are.

To Eliot Appleget, the board, community partners, supporters, and everyone who helped behind the scenes, thank you.

Hell on the Hill is one morning.
But the mission is much bigger.
My hope is that we take what happened on that hill back into our own tribes.
Check on your people.Listen to their stories. Ask the second question. Let someone know when you're struggling. Make room for hard conversations. Remind people that asking for help is strength. And remind them that they belong here.

This is what Healing Heights is about. Creating a community where we can rest. Where we can ask for help. Where we show up for each other. And where we keep going.
Year three is officially in the books.

To everyone who had any part in it, thank you. I'm grateful beyond words.
Keep going. I'm glad you're here.
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