During these overwhelmingly stressful times, we all need something to raise us up above the noise, anxiety, fear, and tension. The dictionary defines hope as a feeling of expectation and desire for something to happen. Hope is what we hold on to in the face of challenges and obstacles that things can and will improve. [...]
As the world we live in feels increasingly stressful and chaotic, as well as painful and scary on many levels, we come together to connect and to learn new strategies for connecting to our resilience, and this latter part takes practice, patience and perseverance. In other words, this process takes time. Last week we did [...]
When your health and well-being are impacted, you have an opportunity (unwelcome though it may be) to make changes in habits and expectations that have developed.
One of the hardest habits to break when you’re a caregiver, and probably the hardest to see objectively, is the tendency to deprive yourself of the care you need to stay healthy, happy and clear-headed enough to honor and pursue your own desired outcomes. The self-deprivation habit shows up in many forms, and is held [...]





