Hope +Wellness Blog
little snippets of advice for everyday challenges many people share
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 to Do When Life Feels Meaningless
What can you do when life feels meaningless? Remember, you’re not alone, and you won’t feel this way forever. Here are 6 suggestions for what you can do when life feels meaningless:
What is High Functioning Anxiety?
People who struggle with high functioning anxiety often find themselves motivated by their anxiety to achieve their goals and to appear perfect. Often, they struggle with extreme inner turmoil while on the outside they appear successful.
6 Ways to Deal With Intrusive Thoughts
Intrusive thoughts often cause extreme distress and worry, and they can be difficult to deal with in the moment. So, how can you cope with intrusive thoughts? Here are 6 strategies to try the next time you have an upsetting intrusive thought.
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 Do I Need to Know Before my First Therapy Session?
Starting something new–especially something like therapy, which asks us to be present and raw and honest–often brings up some anxiety. To help cover some more general concerns, here are our tips on how to prepare for your first therapy session.
4 Tips to Become a Better Listener
Everyone wants to feel listened to and understood by the people around them, but listening well can be easier said than done. Becoming a better listener is a powerful way to improve your relationships with others, whether it’s close friends and partners or even just people you know casually.
Healing through Relationships: Why the Therapeutic Relationship Matters
Therapy is so much more than the tools you learn. Therapy is comprehensive mental health care, where the relationship between therapist and client is a crucial component to the treatment and healing process.
What to Do When You’re Burned Out
Burnout leaves you feeling exhausted, depleted, and hopeless, which can make it harder to get started doing anything that will help you feel better. Coping with burnout doesn’t have to be complicated, though, and there are some simple steps you can take to start feeling better.
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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