Hope +Wellness Blog
little snippets of advice for everyday challenges many people share
Making Friends as an Adult: A Guide for 2025
If you’re longing for closer friendships or struggling with making friends, you’re not alone. Here’s how to approach it.
Navigating Relationship Shifts on Your Healing Journey
Navigating the relationship changes that accompany your healing journey with compassion—for yourself and for others—is essential.
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.
Leaning Into the Season: How to Embrace Rest in Winter
What if winter isn’t a time to push through, but an invitation to slow down? Even if we can’t get there fully, like bears hibernating until spring, can we meet our need for slowness and rest this season halfway? Can we learn to welcome a season of rest? Embracing rest during this season can be a radical act of self-care and healing.
Dealing with Food and Body Image Stress During the Holidays
Do you find yourself stressing about food and your body during the holidays? You’re not alone. Explore strategies to help you navigate food and body image stress during the holidays.
Thanksgiving Survival Guide
Thanksgiving is nearly here, and with that can come a lot of complicated emotions. If you’re feeling anxious about the upcoming holiday season, kicked off by Thanksgiving this week, you’re not alone. To help, we’ve gone through our blog to date and gathered up posts we think will help you get through this season.
7 Tips for Dealing With Travel Anxiety
If travel triggers anxiety for you, you’re not alone! There are things you can do to manage travel anxiety and still enjoy your trip.
6 Practical Ways to Cope with Post-Election Anxiety
Your feelings post-election are valid, including anxiety for what’s to come. These are a few ways to cope with post-election anxiety.
I Want to Start Therapy: What Do I Need to Know?
Starting therapy can be overwhelming. How do you know therapy will be helpful? How do you find a therapist that’s right for you? What should you prepare for, in your first session? How much of therapy takes place in therapy, and how much work will you have to do outside of your one on one time? These are common questions, and we want to help you feel informed and prepared.
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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