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11 Blogs to Help Practice Skills Needed for Self Love
While February is usually a month honoring romantic love, we’re taking some time to spotlight the hard work that goes into self love, and providing a roundup of tools to help make the various practices of loving ourselves easier.
Creating a Self-Care Toolkit for Mental Wellness in 2025
We put together this toolkit to be there to pick up the slack, and be the supportive friend you can turn to when 2025 starts to be just a little too much to manage on your own. This toolkit isn’t about meeting external expectations or achieving someone else’s version of wellness. It’s about creating the practice of returning to tools and relying on support that honor your unique needs, values, and experiences.
The Mental Health Benefits of Having Pets
Caring for an animal can be a lot of work, so why do so many people adopt pets? There are lots of reasons, but a big one is that pets are good for your mental health! Here’s why.
Supporting Your Mental Health During Your Freshman Year of College
Finding the right ways to take care of your mental health as an adult takes some trial and error. If you’re working on supporting your mental health during your freshman year of college, here are some things to keep in mind to help you.
How Routines Can Support You in Tough Times
Whether you’re going through a stressful time in your work or personal life, or if there’s something upsetting happening in the news, a routine can help you stay grounded and help manage stress.
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.
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?
6 Ways Hobbies Benefit Your Mental Health
The reason that hobbies are so popular is because they give you a chance to unwind and recharge mentally. Lots of hobbies are physically taxing, but they allow us time to get in the zone of doing something we like and get over the stress of our day. And hobbies aren’t just for fun, they’re good for you, too! Here are 6 ways hobbies benefit your mental health.
What Does it Mean to Take Care of Yourself? 7 Blogs to Help You Practice
Self care requires a lot of skills we aren’t necessarily taught, and it asks us to patient and compassionate with ourselves and others as we develop those skills. Some of them are easier than others; it’s easier to get yourself to stretch or go for a walk when you feel your body to start to ache than it is to figure out how to express an unpleasant emotion to someone you care about. To help you practice, we’ve gathered 7 of our favorite posts that cover skills you may not even realize are self care practices.
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.
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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