Hope & Healing Blog
Every other week we’ll post a short & sweet article with practical tips on how to help you thrive.
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Sources, Symptoms, and Self-Care for the Mother Wound
If your relationship with your mother wasn't ideal, you might be carrying a hidden burden that affects your life even now.
Lost in a Sea of Feelings? Here's Your Compass
Here’s a tool to help you find your inner compass and navigate towards calmer waters when things get overwhelming and you can’t make sense of what you’re feeling.
Not feeling like yourself since winter hit? It could be a treatable condition.
For some of us the shorter and colder winter days bring with them feelings of anxiety, sadness, or an unshakeable lethargy. It could be more than just the “Winter Blues”, and it IS treatable.
3 Reasons Journalling Could be Your Key to Working Through Trauma
Even if writing doesn’t come naturally to you, or journalling doesn’t seem like “your thing” here are a few reasons to consider adding this tool to your mental health tool belt.
Yes, generational trauma is real. No, you're not destined to repeat it.
Let’s talk about history of family trauma, and how to break the cycle.
3 Hidden Secrets of Great Conflict Resolution
In some relationships bad blood may be inevitable, but it certainly doesn’t have to be forever. When handled well, conflict can draw us closer, create vulnerability, and build stronger bonds.
Do Attachment Styles Affect Your Friendships? (Spoiler: they definitely do)
A quick read to help you consider how your attachment style may be effecting your friendships.
Don’t Think About Chocolate Cupcakes… Or Your Trauma
Turns out it’s not so easy to not think about something you’re trying to not think about – especially when something (like a picture of warm, fresh cupcakes) brings it to mind. The same is true with memories of our traumatic experiences.
All I Want for Christmas is to Get Along
With Christmas right around the corner it may be the perfect time to take stock of healthy ways to manage tricky conversations with the people in your life that you didn’t choose and you can’t lose!
Ever Heard of Attachment Theory? Here's a 3 Minute Crash Course
What happens when you grow up in an environment that forces you to think the only person who is safe enough to trust is yourself? Attachment Theory takes a deep dive into how the stability we have as children affects our ability to build healthy relationships in adulthood.
Clarifying Questions at the Heart of Conflict Resolution
Let’s admit it: most of us hate conflict. And it’s hard. Read on for some practical tips on what to do next time you find yourself stuck in conflict with no idea where to go (or what to say) next.