2024

Mental Health Action Day

My Good Brain is a proud community partner of MTV Entertainment Group’s Mental Health Action Day. Our theme for this year’s event is focused on the healing power of music.

On May 16 and all month long, we invite you to take ONE hour for
your mental health & well-being

Pledge to Take One Hour

For Your Mental Health on 5/16

How to Join

  1. Sign up below and pledge to take one hour for your mental health on 5/16.

  2. Follow us on Instagram: @mygoodbrain

  3. Create a social media post on 5/16 and tag us to be featured! @mygoodbrain #mentalhealthaction

Our Mental Health Action Day Goal

For Mental Health Action Day, our goal is to raise $2000 by the end of May. With your support and generosity, we are raising funds to help us 1) deliver more SF Bay Area in-person events, covering the costs of art materials, travel, advertising & marketing, and other event-related costs; and 2) provide more art therapy Tool Kits for our upcoming Fall 2024 school year.

View the donation thermometer on the right to see how much we have raised so far!

May 8

Events

Fremont Main Library, Fukaya Room B
4-5pm

We’re back for our last Art x Mental Wellness Workshop of the 2023-2024 school year at the Fremont Main Library! Open to children ages up to 12 (families welcome)

Fremont Street Eats

May 17

Downtown Fremont Events Center
3500 Capitol Ave, Fremont, CA 94538, US
5-9pm

Come say Hi! Check us out in-person for some FREE arts and crafts activities at Fremont Street Eats!

Sunday Art Club

May 19

Youtube.com/@mygoodbrain
11am-12pm PST (Los Angeles)

On the third Sunday of each month (unless otherwise noted) at 11 AM PST (Los Angeles), My Good Brain premieres a free, on-demand arts and crafts activity on YouTube. For kids of all ages and no art experience is required!

On May 16, 2024, we invite individuals of all ages to spend one hour for mental wellness by taking a break and listening to some music! Whether you’re in the mood for something fun and catchy, or looking for some cozy, slow jams, we’ve got you!

In collaboration with JV Agency, enjoy a curated Spotify Playlist of inspiring songs from your next favorite artists! These were selected to help you get through some of life’s toughest moments, whether that be your exams, graduation, or other big life events.

Tag us on Instagram @mygoodbrain if you enjoy our playlists!

Mental Health Action Day
Music Playlists

Featured Artists

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Featured Artists 〰️

  • Indie-rock/folk singer Nikita Lev is committed to crafting compelling music.

    Fashioning her songs with grace, emotion, and soft haunting vocals, the New York-bred multi-instrumentalist released her debut single “Elegance,” on February 27, 2023, and has since released four singles. Her second single “Like I Care,” in April, her third single “Nothing Has Changed” in June, “Nowhere Bar” in July, and her newly released single on October 10th, “Nihilistic Baby”.

    Nikita crafts music that is honest, confident, and mature. Not afraid to speak her mind, she introduces a tension between nostalgia and modernity on “Elegance.” As she penned the lead single of her forthcoming “Clearly Misunderstood” EP, she examined the juxtaposition between entering adulthood and the carelessness of being a free-spirited youth.

  • With a music career rooted within the rock band Linus Young, IRIS has grown as an independent solo artist and created a name for herself. Based in LA, IRIS is a prolific singer and songwriter who touches the hearts and ears of listeners with her music. Her single “Crazy” was featured on the hit show Santa Clarita Diet starring Drew Barrymore on Netflix, giving a great start to her venture as a solo artist. IRIS’s music is a blend of pop, rock, and R&B influences as well as her Icelandic heritage, and she strives to enlighten and strengthen every listener with positive and supportive messages. With her new uplifting cover of Alessia Cara’s “Stone,'' IRIS shares the feeling of being safe and supported no matter how uncertain the world may get.

  • Francisco Martin was born and raised in the Bay Area (specifically, the city that shares his name) in a musically fertile household. Self-taught as a child, Francisco mastered drums, guitar, piano, and several other instruments, taking his talent to local stages while playing with musicians several years his senior. He later earned the title ‘writer-producer’ as he began to dabble in poetry and experiment with SoundCloud, where he amassed a following for his original renditions of favorite covers.

    Francisco first shot to fame with American Idol season 18 in 2020 where he placed Top 5. From there, he quickly released a few singles before embarking on a fall coast-to-coast tour. His heart-on-sleeve soulful pop has garnered favorable comparisons to songwriter artists such as James Bay, John Mayer, Maggie Rogers, and Ed Sheeran. To date, Francisco has released several hit singles, including “Swollen,” which has amassed close to 10 million streams across all DSPs (with 7.9 million on Spotify). Francisco’s previous single, “If U Need Me,” premiered on PopMatters. He put out his debut EP, Beautiful Ramblings of a Restless Mind, in 2021. A year later, Francisco emerged with his first true artistic statement, a 6-song EP called Manic—a bold collection of emotionally raw pop-rock songs.

    Francisco continues to carry the same momentum with a new string of singles that explore themes of love and heartbreak in a modern world with a blend of retro-soul, bedroom pop, low-fi, and pop soundscapes highlighting Francisco’s signature dreamy falsetto and robust belting.

  • Bonnie Leigh McKee (born January 20th, 1984) is an American singer, Grammy nominated songwriter, actress, screenwriter, and director. She released her first album, Trouble, with Reprise records in 2004.

    After leaving Reprise, Bonnie went on to write 10 #1 songs for other artists. Songs that Bonnie has co-written have amassed over 35 million sales world wide, and garnered over 5 Billion streams. Since 2013, she's been releasing her own songs as an artist again, and continues releasing music independently today. In 2020, Bonnie starred in a short film she wrote, directed, edited, and scored, called April Kills The Vibe.

    Bonnie is best known for her collaborations with pop artist Katy Perry, co-writing "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Last Friday Night", "Part of Me", "Wide Awake", and "Roar", which earned her a Grammy nomination for Song Of The Year in 2013. She has also collaborated with and written for Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne, Jason Derulo, KYGO, Kesha, Carly Rae Jepson, Cher, Charlie Puth, Ellie Goulding, Christina Aguilera, Adam Lambert, 5 Seconds Of Summer, Steve Aoki, Armin Van Buuren, The Chainsmokers, Cheryl Cole, Rita Ora, Taio Cruz, and many more.

    While Bonnie is best known for her musical career, she has also worked as an actor, appearing as a supporting role in the Oscar nominated film August Rush, guest starring on NBC's American Dreams as Janis Joplin, guest starring on CSI: NY as Eleanor Ravelle, guest starring as Kimmy Kelly on Darren Chris's original show Royalties, and starring in two different roles for her own self written and directed short film, April Kills The Vibe, for which she's won 10 awards for, including Best Actress, Best Women's Short, Best First Time Director, and Best Score.

  • From the shadows of Confederate Mount Rushmore in Stone Mountain, Georgia, just miles outside the Civil Rights capital city of Atlanta, comes a creative truthteller, equipped with revolutionary insight, fierce vulnerability, and conscious, soulful, cinematic, pop anthems.

    Andre’s been writing songs since he was a boy, inspired by watching his father

    —a reggae musician and activist of Jamaican and Cuban roots—put rebellious chants of love and freedom to skanking rhythms on the guitar in their immigrant home. When he wasn’t sitting in front of his parent’s record player, memorizing the defiant lyrics of Bob Marley’s greatest hits, little Andre could be found in his room drawing scenes from the American Revolution. His first performances were at his grandmother’s church, where he learned to play the piano and guitar.

    Andre was studying theology when the killing of Philando Castile by the Minneapolis Police Department triggered an awakening that caused him to cut ties with his evangelical faith and begin speaking out against racial violence, declaring the good news that “it doesn’t have to be this way.” For several months, he lugged a 100-pound boulder around the Los Angeles area, to visually express how anti-Black racism burdens the Black psyche. His community organizing and writing for racial justice have made him a trusted global voice on nonviolent struggle for social progress. He recounts this journey into the racial justice movement in his bestselling memoir-manifesto All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep.

    Andre is a graduate of 1500 Sound Academy in Inglewood, California, founded by Grammy winners James Fauntleroy and Larrance Dopson. He’s also the inaugural recipient of the “Reach Out and Touch Award” in honor of his late mentor and legendary singer-songwriter Nick Ashford from The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation. His work has been featured in The Nation, The New Yorker, New York’s Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., and Super Bowl LVI.

    Whether he's marching the streets with local activists, writing his books, or performing his music, Andre is here to speak truth, spread joy, and shift culture through everything he creates.

On the Blog

Music and Mental Health

Music can reveal quite a lot about yourself and the people around you. Whether it’s relieving stress or bonding with peers, music is there for us all.

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Self-Healing Starts With You

At My Good Brain, we are all about using the arts for our social-emotional well-being. From music, visualization, and daily affirmations. Check out some of the fun and helpful resources we’ve compiled for your daily self-help.