Hope +Wellness Blog
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How Mindful Communication Can Improve Your Relationships
There are many benefits to mindfulness, including the ways that mindful communication can enhance relationships. Here are 4 ways that mindful communication can help you improve the relationships that matter to you:
How Can My Therapist Help with My Chronic Pain?
Suffering from chronic pain, or having a chronic illness with severe physical symptoms might not seem like the kind of thing you can go to a therapist for, but a therapist can be a key element of your chronic pain management.
While your illness or pain may be physically located in your body, that doesn’t mean it’s entirely separate from your mental health. In fact, mental and physical health are incredibly linked. So, when your mental health suffers, your physical health often suffers, and vice versa.
Why Is It So Hard to Build New Habits?
Sometimes, even when we try to make sure we’re following best practices or practical advice for establishing new habits, we still can’t get there. Let’s explore some reasons it can so hard to latch onto new habits.
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.
How Can Therapy Help Me Navigate Big Life Changes?
It’s a cliche but it’s true: change is the only constant. So why does it always feel like such an insurmountable task? In therapy, along with navigating crises as they come up and exploring your internal experience, you get the chance to practice skills that make it easier to navigate life transitions when they come up.
How to Improve Sleep When You Deal With Chronic Pain
If you deal with chronic pain, you know how important sleep can be to helping you feel better. Discover tips to improve your sleep even when in pain.
9 Commonly Asked Questions About The Therapeutic Process
Since therapy is already a vulnerable experience, we want to help make it as easy and supportive to begin the process as we can, so we’ve put together this list of common questions and further resources for each to help you get started.
The Psychology of Fresh Starts: Embracing Change in the New Year
With the start of a new year just a few days away, it’s a good time to think about your relationship with change.
Managing Racing Thoughts That Keep You Awake
Have you ever been trying to fall asleep, but your thoughts just wouldn’t stop? One minute you were sleepily dragging yourself under the covers, and the next your heart was pounding and your thoughts were racing and your breaths were coming in short and quick? Racing thoughts aren’t uncommon–we all deal with them from time to time
I'm Dreading My Next Therapy Session, What Now
Sometimes, even if you’re doing great work and you typically leave therapy with a new understanding of yourself (no matter how small), you might start to feel a little dread come up at the thought of going to your next session.
If that feeling comes up, it’s important to take a step back and get curious about it
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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