Amid Coronavirus rapidly spreading across the world and hitting closer to us in our local communities, the fear we may experience as individuals is not only turning to anxiety but to emotional community contagion. So think about your own fear, and adopting someone...
To Our Clients, Our Efforts to Minimize Risk
Dear Clients and Community Partners,The Hope Center for Wellness cares deeply about our clients, partners and their health. We continue to monitor Coronavirus (COVID-19) and bring our full care to what will best serve our clients, colleagues and partners. We...
What We Are Reading – Radical Compassion
Every time clinical psychologist and meditation teacher, Tara Brach, has a new book out, I rush to the nearest book store or a web store to get it. Her teachings of radical acceptance, true refugee, self-love self-awareness and compassion, among many others, have...
How to Talk to Immigrant Children about Recent Shootings
When tragedies happen, any of us can be affected by the aftermath whether we were impacted directly or indirectly. But our kids are the most vulnerable. They have not yet develop the skills and ability to process things like adults do. If children do not have the...
Como Hablar con Los Niños Sobre Redadas y Deportaciones
Nuestro actual ambiente político anti-inmigrante está desatando terror en nuestras comunidades. Las recientes redadas y deportaciones masivas que hemos visto en el país y amenazas de futuras redadas, tienen el potencial de generar un estado de pánico, y...
A Work in Progress: How to Embrace Where you Are Right Now
There are 365 days in a year, 24 hours in the day, 60 minutes in a hour, 60 seconds in a minute. These aren’t just numbers, well they are but these numbers can also represent thousands of opportunities to renew, and grow. The beauty of having endless opportunities to...
What we are reading
On a cool Sunday afternoon, I walked into a bookstore looking for a new read. This book caught my attention right away. As a mental health therapist, I was curious about the word "mentally" within the title. I was skeptical at first wondering if this was going to be a...
Make Self-Care Part of New Year’s Resolutions
It’s that time of the year, where our enthusiasm for change and newness is so vibrant that we are determined to set new goals, leave what doesn’t serve us behind and launch a fresh start. It’s a new year! And with each new beginning, we have endless...
Mind Power: 5 Strategies to Managing Distressful Thoughts
Our minds are powerful and constantly thinking. We think about the past and future every day, we ruminate about things that happened and worry about things that haven’t happened yet. That’s part of our mind’s job and it does that to protect us or get us motivated. For...
#SaludMentalADiario: Colorea
Es el mes de la Salud Mental. Estamos compartiendo fotos de actividades que promueven #saludmentaladiario. Colorea. ¿Te acuerdas cuando pintabas en tu infancia? ¿Qué recuerdos te vienen a la mente? Tal vez sentistes alegría, te divertias y te sentistes creativo/a....