Lived Experience

HLN Wellness is the emotionally intelligent approach to mental health and well-being consulting. Our mission is to empower parents to help their children find their passion while developing valuable mental health skills.   We motivate parents to team with their children to pursue the realization of their potential whether via the best fit is college or a direct career path after high school graduation.  It is through this pursuit that youth develop mental stability, joy, and self-worth due to impacting their generation and those that follow.

We ensure that students’ unique stories, ambitious goals, and authentic passions are the drivers in students’ day-to-day lives.

16% of our lives are spent at work, with the remaining 84% spent on “life” (personal emotional management, relationships with others, physical development, sensory development, financial management, political interests, intellectual development, spiritual development, etc.).  Yet our schools devote closer to 84% of their focus on the work.

We incubate student’s passions and take their interests to the next level. Our students aren’t just encouraged to do well in class.  They are guided on the importance of the arts, sports, community service, political activism, and entrepreneurship.

Health Living Nation (HLN) was founded in 2016 by Mark Lawrence, an ivy league educated engineer (Cornell University) and MBA (The Wharton School/University of Pennsylvania) with 30 years of brand management and entrepreneurial marketing experience. Clients have included Nike, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Proctor & Gamble, Citibank, State Farm, The United Way, local governments, educational institutions, and small businesses. One powerful theme has recurred to hinder maximum productivity in each industry/company — stress and trauma.

For years, the serious effects of trauma affected only others (families of clients, alumni and acquaintances). Overlooked for years as a function of the workplace, school and family model, the effects of trauma could no longer be ignored by Lawrence when it manifested in the hospitalization and loss of several close friends, family members and his own son. HLN has recently used its marketing experience to produce a series of award-winning workshops and conferences to promote trauma and mental health awareness in workplaces, schools, and public community venues.

For years, corporations, schools and the public has naturally shunned anything that hinted at the stigmatized subject of mental health. After all, this is not a fun subject and so long as it it is someone else’ problem, our society has successfully compartmentalized this work to mental health treatment facilities, hospitals, psychology professionals and government agencies (SAMHSA, NAMI, State Task Forces, etc.). However, COVID-19 shined a bright light on trauma and mental health, as depression and anxiety became common terms in every corporation, school and household across the globe. In fact, every 2 seconds someone googles “depression”.