Category: Health and Wellness
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Your Pandemic Holiday Season Survival Guide is Here!
By Leah Harris Even before the pandemic, the holiday season was a very challenging time for folks living with mental health and substance use conditions. There is the stress of connecting with relatives, especially if there has been a history of trauma in families. For some LGBTQ people, there is the pain of being unwelcome…
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Affirmation for the Weekend: Place to Be
Today’s WRAP® affirmation was contributed by Kenneth Kozi Arrington, Programs Outreach Coordinator. Thanks Kozi!
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Sneak Preview: WRAP for the Holidays
For more WRAP® support, visit PEERS’ WRAP® Program webpage, download the WRAP® app, and find out more about WRAP® online. By Vilma Sakalauskaite HOLIDAY WELLNESS Let me ask you, how do the Holidays make you feel? Joyous Spiritual Generous Excited Isolated Sad Grief Bad memories Holidays are an annual recurring time of the year marked…
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PEERS Perspective: Courageous Dialogue
For more WRAP® support, visit PEERS’ WRAP® Program webpage, download the WRAP® app, and find out more about WRAP® online. By Kiana Smith I remember seeing Daryl Davis on a show that I watched called, Real Time with Bill Maher, and I decided to look up Daryl Davis on YouTube to see if I could…
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Wellness Tools: “A Love Letter To Myself”
For more WRAP® support, visit PEERS’ WRAP® Program webpage, download the WRAP® app, and find out more about WRAP® online. By Heather Riemer Recently I was feeling kind of down. I happened to come across an exercise that I thought might make me feel better. It was called “A Love Letter to Myself” I looked…
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Wellness Tools: Virtual Traveling
This edition of Wellness Tools was written by community partner, Kai Jones-Biscette. As someone living with mental health challenges, one really must pay particular attention and care to the activities and routines which help keep us well. And, during these Covid Times, I’m finding that I am having to pull out the ‘big guns’ to…
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Wellness Tools: Open Water Swimming For Anxiety Relief
For more WRAP® support, visit PEERS’ WRAP® Program webpage, download the WRAP® app, and find out more about WRAP® online. By Vilma Sakalauskaite Open Water Swimming For Anxiety Relief Open water swimming is a new wellness tool for me that I started a month ago and have been using on a daily basis. Swimming really…
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Affirmation: Peace & Security
The question as we go into the Holidays: “True Peace and Security, How Can You Find It?”
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PEERS Perspectives: Gratitude for the Peer/Consumer Community
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 Gratitude for the Peer/Consumer Community In this time when we have to be so much…
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Wellness Tools: Meditations for Staying Positive
“Meditations for Staying Positive” In the world we live in there are many reasons to feel overwhelmed. That’s why we created this list of podcasts entitled, “Meditations for Staying Positive”. This is a list of 10 uniquely chosen podcasts to put you in the mood for thinking positively about your life and so you are…