In Their Name
A National Day of Remembrance and Connection
Together, we carry their names and create a path to hope and healing.
Carry a stone with your loved one’s name on September 19th.
Find a stone.
Any stone will do.
Write your loved one's name on it.
Paint markers work well.
Carry it with you.
Up a mountain, around a park, down a city block, in your pocket while you run errands or work out.
Place it in a cairn.
When you're done, place the stone in a cairn on a hiking trail, a city park, or even on your windowsill.
Share it.
Use #intheirname and tag @riserecoverlive if you post about the day on social media.
Built directly out of a tradition we already have at The Phoenix: our hikes in Moab, where each person carries a small stone and creates a cairn at the end of the trail.
In Their Name is a national day of remembrance for the people we’ve lost to substance use, mental illness, and isolation. We’re taking that ritual—carrying a name, carrying a memory, carrying a person forward—and opening it up to the whole country.
The ambition is that this becomes a day the whole country observes — not through our programming, but through millions of people doing a simple action on the same day because it means something to them.
Volunteers encouraged to host a group hike, walk, or workout on 9/19 with space for sharing loved ones’ memories. Bring along a few paint markers for rock decoration!
Hike
Up a mountain. Build a cairn at the top.
Walk
Around a park. Down a city block.
Workout
Stone in your pocket. Hold space to share.
On your own
Carry it through an ordinary day. Rest it on your windowsill.
2 names carried, and counting.
Kara. Your light shines every day.
Danny R.
Loudest laugh on every trail. Carried up Mount Sanitas. — Kara, Boulder