Hope +Wellness Blog
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Spending Time with Your Inner Child this Autumn
As the weather cools, it’s finally starting to feel like autumn! There are many ways you can connect to your inner child throughout the year, but why not have a little seasonal fun with it? Here are just a few ideas on how you can use the changing of the seasons as an opportunity to connect with your inner child.
3 Ways to Build Interoceptive Awareness
It takes practice to learn how to engage the sense of interoception. Interoceptive awareness builds with time, so the more you can be curious about what’s going on in your body, the better. Here are 3 other ways to strengthen your sense of interoception.
Getting Started with Hiking for Mental Health
One easy way to spend time in nature? Hiking! It’s a wonderful way to build both physical and mental health. Here are a few benefits of hiking.
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.
5 Mental Health Benefits of Spending Time in Nature
The idea that getting some fresh air can be beneficial to health is not a new one. It’s go-to advice for many people, because being outside in nature actually is good for you in a number of ways.
Why is nature so good for mental health? Here are 5 mental health benefits of spending time in nature.
How Well Can You Predict What Will Make You Happy?
Your brain is a powerful machine. It can do so many things! But one thing we can’t rely on it for? Predicting what will make us happy in the future. Sound strange? Read more in this blog!
What is a Trauma Response?
The way trauma shows up in our lives is called a trauma response. Essentially, a trauma response is the repeated occurrence of a coping mechanism that helped you survive your trauma, but now it is present whether or not the danger you’re sensing is real.
4 Ways to Practice Accountability in Your Relationships
Accountability isn’t always the first quality we think of when it comes to good relationships, but it’s actually very important for establishing trust, safety, and intimacy. It’s less obvious than, say, a good sense of humor, but accountability is a crucial piece of the healthy relationship puzzle.
What is Emotional Regulation?
Have you ever felt like your emotions were controlling you?
Maybe you were in an argument, or just got bad news, or one more thing in the midst of a really bad day went wrong and made you feel like you couldn’t stay calm anymore. Suddenly your feelings were overwhelming you, like a dam broke, and you were too emotional to think through your behavior.
These are times when emotional regulation skills would help.
5 Ideas for Soothing Your Nervous System in Tough Times
We all go through seasons in life, and some are harder than others. When times are tough, it can feel like it’s impossible to make yourself feel better. Understanding how our nervous systems respond in tough times can help us come up with better ways to soothe ourselves when we feel distressed.
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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