Category: Health and Wellness
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WRAP® Wellness Tools – A Trip to the Dog Park
For more WRAP® support, visit PEERS’ WRAP® Program webpage, download the WRAP® app, and find out more about WRAP® online. By Heather Riemer A great wellness tooI I have found is taking a trip to the dog park. There is one in Richmond called Point Isabel, a big park right next to the water and…
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WRAP® Affirmations for the Weekend: Liking Yourself
Today’s WRAP® affirmation was contributed by Reinaldi Gilder, TAY Program Coordinator at PEERS. Thanks, Reinaldi!
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Is Media Consumption Affecting Your Mood?
This piece contributed by Communications Coordinator, Joshua Walters Is Media Consumption Affecting your Mood? Reggie Watts Asks on Instagram: “If I’m stressed and anxious from the news should I stop reading/viewing it? I like staying informed but it’s really getting to me. What do you do to manage this? (Bellow are some of the comments…
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Remembering John Lewis
Today’s post was contributed By Kiana Smith Last Month American Civil Rights Leader and Congressmen, John Lewis passed away. His funeral was attended by three former US Presidents, as Lewis was a fixture of American political change and consciousness. Lewis was closely connected with Martin Luther King Jr. and marched for African-American voting rights in…
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WRAP® Wellness Tools: My Best Friend
For more WRAP® support, visit PEERS’ WRAP® Program webpage, download the WRAP® app, and find out more about WRAP® online. By Kenneth Kozi Arrington If you love someone, better off telling them now. Kozi has shared a piece in which he tells someone how much they mean to him. This particular poem is from 1982. MY BEST FRIEND I pick…
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WRAP® Affirmation for the Weekend: Everybody
Today’s WRAP® affirmation was contributed by Vilma Sakalauskaite, Program Assistant at PEERS. Thanks, Vilma!
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WRAP® Sneak Preview: Wake up!
Wake up! PEERS wants to support them on their way with WRAP® providing daily blog posts in the coming days and weeks. We will have publications especially in Spanish on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For even more support visit us on our PEERS page, download the WRAP® app, and find out more about WRAP® by going…
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PEERS Perspectives: A New Understanding of Mental Health
PEERS Perspectives is a blog series that offers thoughts and reflections from our staff and community members on mental health, current events, and the ways they affect our lives. Today’s post on Mental Health perspective is written by Program Evaluation Specialist Sarah Marxer Are you noticing what I’m noticing? In conversations with friends, with people in my family,…
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WRAP® Wellness Tools – Puzzles
For more WRAP® support, visit PEERS’ WRAP® Program webpage, download the WRAP® app, and find out more about WRAP® online. By Portia Lee Happy Monday – Social Distancing can be challenging but I found a new way to create indoor fun. My granddaughter and I have rediscovered puzzles. Jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, word search puzzles. Puzzles are both educational (builds…
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WRAP® Affirmations for the Weekend: I Am the Expert on Myself
Today’s WRAP® affirmation was contributed by Jules Plumadore, Interim Executive Director at PEERS. Thanks, Jules!