Hope +Wellness Blog

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Hope+Wellness 9/29/23 Hope+Wellness 9/29/23

Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Body With These Six Blogs

Having a strong relationship to your body helps your health holistically. It helps you tune into your physical and your emotional needs, and tend to them consciously and intentionally. But getting there isn’t an easy journey and it can be hard to know where to start. These six blogs are our starting point for you if you’re looking to strengthen your relationship to your body.

Hope+Wellness 8/31/23 Hope+Wellness 8/31/23

What Does it Mean to Engage in Self Care When You’re Chronically Ill?

While self soothing often focuses on things that make you feel good in the moment, self care is more about the long term maintenance of your wellbeing. It can mean using up a lot of energy, both physical and mental, which is something chronically ill people don’t usually have in excess. So how can you realistically engage in self care when you’re also managing a chronic illness?

Hope+Wellness 6/19/23 Hope+Wellness 6/19/23

7 Blogs to Read if You’re Dealing with Chronic Illness

To help make a difficult experience a little easier, we’ve gathered 7 of our blog posts related to living your best life with a chronic illness.

Hope+Wellness 4/10/23 Hope+Wellness 4/10/23

Understanding Grief and Chronic Illness

Thousands of people in the US are newly dealing with chronic illness as a result of Long-COVID. It’s more important than ever to understand the reality of living as a chronically ill person, what that can look like, and how to cope with the emotions that come with diagnosis.

Hope+Wellness 6/16/22 Hope+Wellness 6/16/22

Can I Have a Healthy Relationship with My Body Without Loving It?

Living with chronic pain doesn’t mean you don’t deserve an emotionally healthy relationship with your body, even if that can’t be one filled with love.

Hope+Wellness 3/7/22 Hope+Wellness 3/7/22

How to Be There for A Friend with Chronic Pain

If you don’t experience chronic pain, it can be hard to understand just how much it can impact someone’s life. While for most people, pain is unusual, a sign that something needs to be tended to immediately, for folks who manage chronic pain, it is a constant state. If you’re looking for ways to support a loved one with chronic pain, here are 6 ways to be there for them.

Hope+Wellness 2/23/20 Hope+Wellness 2/23/20

How to Cope With Losing Relationships as a Result of Your Chronic Illness

Many people don’t understand what it’s like to be seriously ill. People often also don’t know what to do when someone is sick. If you’ve ever dealt with a loss in your life you might be familiar with this. Some people don’t know what to say or do, so instead of saying the ‘wrong’ thing, they disappear until the crisis is over. It’s not a nice thing to do, certainly, but it is a human reaction to discomfort. Unfortunately, for folks living with chronic illness, this experience is all too familiar. With chronic illness however, there is no end in sight, and because of that some relationships just don’t survive.

Hope+Wellness is a mental health practice specializing in the treatment of depression, mood, stress, and anxiety in kids, teens, and adults. This is a blog about living well and finding meaning and purpose in the face of difficult challenges. This is a blog about finding hope.