Hope +Wellness Blog
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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.
Coping Strategies for Managing Grief and Loss
Learning how to ride the waves of grief is like learning how to manage any other intense emotion. It takes time and effort, and often the help of a professional to support you through it.
How to Move Through Grief with Kindness and Self-Compassion
If there was ever a time to be kind to ourselves, it would be during the different seasons of our grief. However, it is not uncommon that we become highly self-critical and particularly unforgiving to ourselves while we are grieving.
4 Tips for Dealing With a Friend Breakup
If you’re struggling with a friendship breakup, know that you’re not alone. So many people have been through this kind of pain, and whatever reaction you’re having is valid. Here are some of our top tips for dealing with a friend breakup.
4 Myths About Grief
There are a lot of common myths about grief that get passed around as general wisdom in hard times. Today we’re going to unpack some of those myths to hopefully help you understand your grief a little better when it shows up.
5 Reasons You Might Consider Ending a Friendship
Whatever way works for you and your situation, know that it is okay to feel a bunch of conflicting feelings about ending a friendship. You might feel relieved to not have to deal with them anymore. You might feel sad remembering the good times you had together. You might be angry at the way they treated you. Whatever you’re feeling, it’s okay.
7 Ways to Remember Your Lost Loved One
Loss is a universal experience, but it is still not something we are ever prepared for. No matter how much we understand about loss intellectually, when it happens to us, it’s hard to know what to do. Grief is something we will all feel at some point, and there is no set timeline for working through grief. There are stages to grief, but it’s not a linear process. Part of learning to live with grief is figuring out ways to honor the person you lost while managing your grief.
4 Ways to Support Someone Struggling With Infertility
It’s natural to want to support the people you care about, so if you know someone who is struggling with infertility, you’re probably looking for a way to genuinely help. Here are some ways to support someone experiencing infertility.
Processing Non-Death Related Grief
Some of us might assume that grief is exclusively reserved for death, but there are lots of ways grief can come up in someone’s life. So, if grief isn’t just the sadness that you feel after experiencing the death of someone close to you, what is it? What does it mean to be grieving?
20 Journal Prompts for Grief + Loss
Journaling can help with meaning-making during the grief process. Here are some prompts to help you get started.
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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