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Every journey to healing begins with HOPE.  I invite you to join us on the pathway of healing and living joyfully.  On the Hope for Healing website you’ll find tools and resources to learn and apply new skills to increase happiness,  build confidence and self-esteemstrengthen families and marriagesmanage stress, and help alleviate symptoms of depression and anxiety.  You have the power to create the life you want.  We’ll show you how.

 

17 Simple Ways to Relieve Worry, Stress, and Anxiety

17 Simple Ways to Relieve Worry, Stress, and Anxiety

17 Simple Ways to Relieve Worry, Stress, and Anxiety Worry, stress and anxiety can trigger a host of health problems, but there are things we can do to overcome the feelings of worry, stress, and anxiety.  Here are 17 simple ways to relieve worry, stress, and...

How does worry and stress affect your health?

How does worry and stress affect your health?

You Got This! Am I good enough?  How do I stop worrying about my kids?  How do I forgive myself?  All these questions and more are answered in "You Got This!" "You Got This!" is a thoroughly researched, easy-to-read, well-designed action plan to calm feelings of fear,...

Emotional first aid kit

Emotional first aid kit

What is an emotional first aid kit? An emotional first aid kit is simply a list of emotional wellness tools that can provide an immediate, although temporary, positive effect on the way we think and feel.  Having an emotional first aid kit readily available can...

What to do when you hit an emotional wall

What to do when you hit an emotional wall

What to do when you hit an emotional wall You may have seen it in others or perhaps experienced it yourself.  Someone starts off with great intentions towards change and self improvement only to become discouraged and give up.  This article explains why that might...

Hope for Healing Program – How it Works

Hope for Healing Program – How it Works

The Hope for Healing Program - what is it? The Hope for Healing Program is a method of increasing personal empowerment.  When we feel hopeless, anxious, full of despair, or have a victim mentality, we feel powerless.  In order to heal, we need to get our power back. ...

How to raise a successful, happy family

How to raise a successful, happy family

How to raise a successful, happy family - according to science.   The National Survey of Health & Development conducted a longitudinal study carried out on tens of thousands of people over 50 years. Their research reveals a profound truth… parenting matters. ...

Teen Depression and Anxiety

Teen Depression and Anxiety

Teen depression is on the rise, and a parent’s best strategy to help a child is to promote the development of key skills.   Believe that change is possible One of the most important aspects of healing and recovering, whether from teen depression and anxiety, or a...

Why is it so hard to heal from depression?

Why is it so hard to heal from depression?

Why is it so hard to heal from depression? Depression is a pervasive problem and extremely frustrating for many reasons. Depression diminishes hope and motivation Because of the way it affects the mind, if you’re struggling with depression you’re not only fighting an...

5 ways to boost confidence and self esteem

5 ways to boost confidence and self esteem

You can build confidence and self esteem with simple, consistent actions.  Here are five things that scientific research has shown to increase feelings of confidence and self esteem.1. Boost confidence and self esteem with a hero pose You can increase confidence...

The secret to confidence and self esteem

The secret to confidence and self esteem

What is the secret to confidence and self esteem? Why is it that some people seem to have all the luck? Brimming with confidence, happiness and success they have a strong sense of love and belonging while other people, no matter how hard they try, are always wondering...

5 Tips to Increase Happiness

5 Tips to Increase Happiness

Tip #1 Smile Why it works:  Which comes first, the smile or the happiness? When people are happy they smile, but Charles Darwin first proposed the idea that it can also go the other way around in 1872 when he wrote, “The free expression by outward signs of an...