Hope +Wellness Blog
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What is Spiritually Integrated Therapy?
To engage with spiritual wellness, you don’t have to be religious. While religion is one pathway to spirituality, it is not the only one! Spirituality is simply a sense of connectedness to something greater than yourself, and it means different things to different people. For some it might be connecting with a higher power, for others it might be connecting with their community. Others may find their spirit fulfilled in nature, or through music.
Getting To Know Your Inner Child
Getting to know your inner child is a journey of self-discovery and healing. It’s about honoring the child within you, understanding their needs, and providing the care they’ve longed for. While the process can be challenging, the rewards—greater self-awareness, emotional freedom, and a more fulfilling life—are well worth the effort. Here’s how you can start.
5 Tips to Connect with Your Child Using Love Languages
While love languages aren’t an exact science–it’s perfectly common for people to feel that multiple love languages resonate with them–they are a useful tool in remembering the intention that has to inform our most significant relationships. In parenting, the idea of love languages can also be helpful in finding meaningful ways to connect with your child.
5 Ways Nature Can Help Your Mental Health
Integrating nature into your self-care routine can be a powerful way to nurture your mental well-being and find balance in a demanding world. While it can be tricky to add in nature time to our already busy schedules, the benefits of nature on our overall sense of wellness can make it worth the trouble. Why is nature so helpful to our mental health?
What You Should Know About Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
Whether you're dealing with anxiety, chronic pain, disordered eating, or relationship challenges, IFS offers a compassionate, non-pathologizing path to self-understanding and healing. Internal Family Systems therapy can be an effective way to heal and transform your internal world. Here’s what you should know about it!
How to Practice Reaching Out After Self Isolating
We all feel lonely from time to time, but sometimes the loneliness grows so big, we don’t feel like we can escape it. When loneliness is that all consuming, our whole world view can become twisted by that loneliness, convincing us that our cruel, self-isolating thoughts are true. The only way to heal our loneliness is by connecting with others–but like many unhelpful patterns, loneliness can become familiar.
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.
6 Ways to Build Self-Respect
Having a strong sense of self-respect can be protective in times of uncertainty or stress, because you know that you have your own back. Whatever your current level of self-respect, there are ways to increase it.
6 Ways to Support Mental Health After Pregnancy Loss
The period after pregnancy loss can be complicated, emotional, and intense. If you’ve experienced a miscarriage, here are some ways to support your mental health in the aftermath.
Self Kindness: Why it Matters & How to Cultivate It
No one is perfect, and no one’s job is to be perfect. When you make choices it’s important to know there are no right or wrong choices–there are choices that align with your goals and values and ones that don’t, but you always have an opportunity to make a new choice if one turns out not to match the life you’re trying to build. Self kindness is the first step to being okay with this process.
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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