Hope +Wellness Blog

little snippets of advice for everyday challenges many people share

Getting To Know Your Inner Child
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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.

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6 Ways to Build Self-Respect
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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.

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Don't Know What You're Feeling? Try This.
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Don't Know What You're Feeling? Try This.

There are so many moments we find ourselves not knowing what we’re feeling–maybe because we haven’t taken enough time to sit with it, or maybe because we’re feeling something in a context we’ve never felt it before–or maybe because many of us aren’t taught to recognize and have compassion for what we’re feeling when we’re feeling it. So how do we identify what we’re feeling if we don’t have the vocabulary for it?

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Why Is It So Hard to Build New Habits?
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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.

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Separating Healing from Healthism
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Separating Healing from Healthism

A lot of language around health focuses on should’s. What habits we should have, what foods we should eat, how much media we should consume, how we should engage with our bodies, when we should be active and productive, how active and productive we should be, and on and on and on.  But why? And, maybe more importantly, what if in centering our health and all of those “shoulds” we were actually getting in the way of really caring for ourselves?

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Exploring & Expressing Anger Safely
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Exploring & Expressing Anger Safely

Anger is often a secondary emotion–which means if comes as a result of another, often more vulnerable feeling. While anger is what is being expressed in that case, the feeling at the root could be hurt, shame, betrayal, etc.

However, anger still tells us a lot of information, and isn’t an emotion to be afraid to feel or express

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How to Tell the Difference Between Avoidance and Self-Care
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How to Tell the Difference Between Avoidance and Self-Care

It can be hard to figure out if you’re practicing avoidance or self-care. The purpose of self-care is to make you feel rejuvenated. Life isn’t only about being “productive”, but self-care in general should make you feel as though you’ve accomplished something. Avoidance, on the other hand, is draining. It doesn’t feel good to keep putting things off or pushing things away, because there’s always the fear that they’ll come back at any moment.

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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.