Wellness Wednesday 2024
Oct. 30 - Grief: Navigating Emotions and Healing
Sept. 25 - Gratitude: shift your energy, mindset & mood
July 26 - Addiction: Learning New ways to self-soothe
Addiction is when a person uses a substance or behavior to regulate their nervous system. Risk factors include economic or housing insecurity, a history of personal or generational trauma, other pre-existing health conditions, and many other things. There are multiple ways to recover from addiction, or use harm reduction to manage negative effects.
May’s session was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
We will continue on June 26 with addiction.
April 24 - Stress: How it manifests and how to address it
We all have stress in our lives. Stress is not a distinct medical diagnosis and there is no single, specific treatment for it. Treatment for stress focuses on changing the situation, developing stress coping skills, implementing relaxation techniques, and treating symptoms or conditions that may have been caused by chronic stress.
mar. 27 - Decluttering: Mental Health & Your Environment
Wherever you are on the continuum of collecting to hoarding, most of us have more than we need of at least one thing. If you are a trauma survivor, it can be even more difficult to let go of physical objects.
Research suggests the obsessive need to collect and keep material objects may serve as a coping mechanism for grief, loss or posttraumatic stress [http://tinyurl.com/5ff7w98d]. Holding onto things even after they’ve lost their usefulness (broken down car, empty cardboard boxes, etc.) can give a person a sense of autonomy or make them feel that in times of scarcity, they will have resources (whether of actual value to others or not).
Feb. 28 - Making New Habits Easier (virtual only)
Trauma, including generational trauma, can impact your brain’s ability to regulate itself and make good decisions and change patterns of behavior.
This month, we will learn the science behind making lasting habits and tips on how to set goals that won’t be overwhelming.
Neuroscientists have traced our habit-making behaviors to a part of the brain called the basal ganglia, which also plays a key role in the development of emotions, memories and pattern recognition. Decisions, meanwhile, are made in a different part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex.
[More information at http://tinyurl.com/mr3a3fpm]