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Join Melissa McPheeters of Rise to Resilience with special guest and parent, Janise Cross, for this interactive workshop! Click here to register! Schedule: During this 3-hour interactive workshop, Melissa and Janise will facilitate a presentation, time for personal reflection, and voluntary activities to solidify learning and growth among participants. Two fifteen minute breaks are provided. There is no expectation that you have your camera to participate. We encourage you to show up in...

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Looking for CME or CE credits? This training earns 1.5 CME or CE credits. REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/e...tickets-151575148349 WHEN: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00 - 1:30 PM PST Training Description: This workshop addresses the mental health implications of COVID-19 and the long term mental health impact. Participants will learn about evidence-based alternative healing modalities as a complement to traditional therapy : (1) Tools to increase the heart and mind connection and mental...

Survivor’s guilt can occur in a person’s life concerning a traumatic event, such as a pandemic, where there are fear and loss of life. When a survivor does not react or have the trauma affect them like others they can have feelings of remorse that can lead to lifelong challenges.

Chloe Yang, 5/10/21, positiveexperience.org/blog We are thrilled to announce the publication of our journal article, “Transforming Practice with HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences),” in Maternal and Child Health. You can read the paper here on the HOPE website, on our Publications page . This paper was a team effort, led by Dr. Dina Burstein, HOPE Project Director. Other authors include: Chloe Yang, a research assistant working on HOPE; Kay Johnson, President of Johnson Group...

By Good News Network, April 28, 2021 A new study reveals a significant association between gardening more frequently and improvements in wellbeing, perceived stress and physical activity. The study from Britain’s Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) surveyed more than 6,000 people, and results indicate that those who garden every day have wellbeing scores 6.6% higher and stress levels 4.2% lower than people who don’t garden at all. RHS Wellbeing Fellow and lead author, Dr Lauriane Chalmin-Pui...

By Bernard J. Wolfson, California Healthline, May 3, 2021 If you are uninsured because health coverage seemed too expensive the last time you looked, it’s time to look again. A new federal law could make it a whole lot cheaper to buy your own insurance if you don’t get coverage through an employer or a government insurance program such as Medicare or Medicaid. The law, the American Rescue Plan, provides billions of federal dollars to reduce premiums for people who buy their coverage through...

By Natalie Vaughn, Relias, October 30, 2020 Nurses and doctors experience unexpected challenges daily — challenges that would quickly overwhelm many other individuals. Yet despite the mental and physical toll these challenges take, nurses and doctors are expected to persevere. In fact, many healthcare professionals take pride in their ability to endure long days and high-stress situations. But this attitude often keeps these individuals from engaging in the self-care they need to protect...

By Heather Mullinix, Crossville Chronicle, May 6, 2021 Traumatic experiences in early childhood can put individuals at risk for future substance abuse, mental health disorders, chronic health conditions and early death. But efforts to combat those adverse experiences can help set children up for a brighter future, says Becky Haas, author, advocate and community educator. “No on picks where they start in life. But the good news is we can come alongside our children and help them have a better...

You know, I have this idea that if you are willing to go through the mental torture of thinking through every last detail of everything that you could contemplate, and you do your best to understand exactly what is happening fundamentally and dynamically in social situations, your theory of mind will go from zero to better than everyone else’s by the time you are 27-30. It just feels that way because of the personal experience I have and understanding exactly where our attention goes more...

You might be standing in a room with hundred-dollar bills blowing everywhere, but if you can’t catch any, or even notice them, you won’t have any extra money in your pocket. Gratitude works the same way. If you don’t even notice the opportunity to feel gratitude or know how to catch it, then you can’t hold much appreciation for it and your life won’t be altered in any positive way. We all need something positive to hang onto, to build hope and motivation moving forward. That’s why I want to...

As we wrap up this year’s Resilience Week VA, I want to thank you for taking part in this celebration! Trauma-informed community networks (TICNs) across the state have found so many ways to recognize and promote resilience in their communities, and it is exciting to see the wide variety of events and activities that have been offered. Many of these events and trainings are recorded and still open to view, so it’s not too late to check out the offerings from the past week! The Greater...