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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Sacrificing Yourself for Love? How to Identify the Codependency Trap
If you find yourself consistently neglecting your own health in order to make your partner happy, it may be time to check in on your attachment habits.
Feel Smart, Feel Well: How Emotional Intelligence Can Make You More Balanced & Resilient
Taking the time to observe and understand our emotions before acting on them can lead to healthier relationships and better decision making. But it can be hard! Here’s a few tips to make it simpler.
The Frightening Jump Into Sobriety: Why It's Worth It
The journey into sobriety can feel like a lot – especially that first jump into the unknown of a different life. Today we’re looking at common fears and doubts that hold people back, and valuable advice on how to overcome them in order to step into a healthier, happier life.
The Write Way to Heal: Therapeutic Benefits of Writing About Trauma
If you’ve experienced something traumatic you know how difficult it can be to process what happened. But did you know that writing can be a powerful tool for healing and freedom? Let’s explore how writing can help you process trauma in a non-threatening way.
Triggered? Take Charge and Navigate Trauma Triggers with Confidence and Care
Learn how to approach trauma triggers with tenderness and intention to move towards healing and empowerment.
How Your Leadership Style Can Transform Conflict in Your Life
By reflecting on our natural leadership style tendencies, we can see where we are using conflict as a tool to foster empathy and reconciliation, and where we may need to rethink our approach to resolving conflict.
The Ferris Wheel of Shame, and How to Get Off the Ride
It's time to stop the ride and get off the ferris wheel of shame. Read on to learn how to identify shame triggers, cope with negative behaviors, and see yourself as the valuable, flawed human you were created to be.
How The Power of Positive Communication Strengthens Relationships
Discover the power of positive communication and how it can lead to a more fulfilling and long lasting relationship.
Sobriety Through Service: The Transformative Power of Helping Others
Living an outward-focused life can be one of the best ways to empower recovery and strengthen sobriety.
Looking for relief from the hidden wounds of PTSD? Here's a tool to help.
When the memories feel managed, healing can begin to occur. This tool has helped millions cope with PTSD in healthy ways.
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.
In Conflict Which Is Best: Direct Opposition or Indirect Opposition?
Which style is best at achieving mutually beneficial solutions that keep both parties engaged, trusting of the other, and satisfied with the results?
Potholes on the Way to Whole: Healing Around the Obstacles
We all need a little help seeing the potholes in our life as portholes to a new way of life.
Why White Knuckling Your Secrets is Bad For Your Health
It’s exhausting work to keep a secret, especially when it’s about pain we’ve experienced. This obsession over protecting our secrets can be damaging to our physical and mental health.
Lean On Me: The Powerful Benefits of Dependency
Our culture loves talking about the dangers of codependency, but we may be overlooking the powerful benefits of dependency.
Your bookshelf is full of cathartic tools for healing
Add a little character to your day by trying out some bibliotherapy.
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.
The Sound of Healing
Research reveals how sounds could make you happier, healthier, and wise!
What Most People Get Wrong About Trauma
Take a look at how one of the leading experts in trauma research is redefining what trauma actually is.