Hope +Wellness Blog
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Making Friends as an Adult: A Guide for 2025
If you’re longing for closer friendships or struggling with making friends, you’re not alone. Here’s how to approach it.
Thanksgiving Survival Guide
Thanksgiving is nearly here, and with that can come a lot of complicated emotions. If you’re feeling anxious about the upcoming holiday season, kicked off by Thanksgiving this week, you’re not alone. To help, we’ve gone through our blog to date and gathered up posts we think will help you get through this season.
6 Practical Ways to Cope with Post-Election Anxiety
Your feelings post-election are valid, including anxiety for what’s to come. These are a few ways to cope with post-election anxiety.
How to Ask for Help When You Need It
Asking for help can be intimidating. Discover how to tell when you need help and how to make asking for help easier.
Five Tools For Managing Loneliness and Building Connection
The problem with loneliness is that it tricks us into thinking we’re the only one who feels that way, that everyone else is happy and connected and supported by their friends, loved ones, and community, and out of shame we end up isolating, only making the loneliness worse. But the truth is most of us feel lonely every now and then.
Why is Making Friends as an Adult so Hard? + What to Do About It
Friendships become communities of support–communities which go against the American ideal of self sufficiency. Because they present this sort of counter-culture to the American way, we don’t put value onto platonic relationships the way we do with others and we don’t learn how to make, cultivate and sustain intimate them. So what can you do?
7 Things to Do When You’re Lonely
Loneliness has a serious impact on our lives, but there are things you can do to cope with loneliness and to minimize its effects.
Balancing Self and Community Care
How do we find balance between individual responsibility and collective care?
Cultivating Strong Community Ties for Better Mental Health
To put it simply, communities are crucial to health because everyone needs a support system–health is made up of many moving parts, all of which can be tended to by different community relationships and resources.
Racial Justice Resources
As attention on the movement on social media begins to die down, we wanted to share a small directory of racial justice resources. Anti-racism is lifelong work that will often feel uncomfortable. But it’s important to commit to that lifetime of learning, listening, and doing better if we ever want to see real change.
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.
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