A Lovely Pause is dedicated to serving those who are healing from trauma by offering resources, community education and awareness, coping skills, and support through workshops, support groups, volunteer opportunities, and financial assistance.
The Pause
a monthly newsletter curated specifically for women who have experienced trauma to promote and inspire positive mental health awareness and practices.
10 Boundaries to Help Preserve Your Mental Health this Holiday Season
The holidays are hard for many reasons. Yes, it's the most wonderful time of the year, but for many, Christmas also brings plenty of uncomfortable emotions. Anxiety, depression, grief, loss, guilt, and shame are the necessary ingredients to create a perfect holiday cake iced with social pressures and all of the fancy, expensive baubles of the holiday season. It’s enough to make your head spin, honestly.
8 Ways to Cope with Grief This Holiday Season
It’s dawning on me that this roller coaster of a year is almost to a close. The year that brought us empty grocery store shelves; new normals like social distancing and accessorizing with a face mask; schools and jobs shutting down; and in short, life interrupted. There wasn’t any area that COVID-19 didn’t touch during this long and emotionally fraught year. And as one last hurrah it’s given us the grand finale, the 2020 Holiday Season.
Overdue Conversations
Therapist Matthew Yount hosts this month’s overdue conversation with Jillian Brown. Jillian Brown is an adventure photographer, and has traveled to some of the most remote locations in North America. She is also a domestic violence survivor who navigates the struggles of PTSD. Jillian is now working with her partner at Camp My Way to teach other people skills for dealing with trauma. We hope that you enjoy the interview as much as we enjoyed creating it.
Grief Comic By Kindred Causey
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