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Why Are Cafés So Great? - Public Health Innovation and the Epidemic of Loneliness
In recent years, about one-in-two adults in America reported experiencing loneliness. And that was before the COVID-19 pandemic cut off so many of us from friends, loved ones, and support systems, exacerbating loneliness and isolation.
Why Are Cafés So Great? – Cafés and Healing Trauma
Trauma, especially trauma that is experienced in early childhood, can have a significant and lasting impact on an individual's emotional, cognitive, and social development. It can disrupt the natural progression of attachment, self-concept, and understanding of the world and interpersonal dynamics. As a result, this can set unhealthy patterns of relationships…
Why Are Cafés So Great? – Café as a Type of Therapeutic Mental Health Service
The main goal of mental health services is to help individuals achieve better mental and emotional well-being. If you bracket for a moment the assumption that all such services need to be provided by licensed professionals according to a medical model including diagnosis and treatment including medication (which are not necessarily super effective in many cases), Cafés do many of the things that therapeutic mental health services do — and for some people they even work better than conventional, evidence-based interventions. They can also be catalysts and gateways to accessing professional mental health services.
Required Rest and Spiritual Revitalization
“I don’t have time to make time!” My first thought when I saw Saturday Spring Into Vitality events scheduled for rest and creativity. The first event came, and my doubt and hesitation were met with Uma. The countenance of Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, PhD is so welcoming, open, inviting, and peaceful that my walls came down and my reservations melted away.
Environmental Vitality: Springtime Journey to Vitality
We are intimately and integrally connected to our surroundings, and those surroundings have a profound effect on the way we feel. This is the foundation of the Environmental Vitality Domain. Over the course of our conversations about this domain, several themes emerged.
Social Vitality: Springtime Journey to Vitality 2021
The pandemic reshaped how many of us view our relationships with ourselves and with the people in our life. Last week, our discussions around nurturing Social Vitality explored how we can learn from the past and move forward with joyful, healthy relationships.
Financial Vitality: Springtime Journey to Vitality 2021
This past week, our Springtime Journey to Vitality focus was the Financial Vitality domain, and the conversations set us up for future success. As usual there were a lot of open, candid reflection on why we are where we are—learned behaviors and limiting beliefs, challenges, and real-life experiences. We also built consensus on the building blocks to financial well-being for ourselves and our families.
Holistic Protection: Keeping Yourself and Your Family Safe
What is safety? What is security? How do we take care of ourselves in order to take care of our families?
We’re a Member of the February #WeCanSaveTheWorld Sustainability Challenge
Be Strong Families has joined the February #WeCanSavetheWorld Sustainability Challenge! For the entirety of February 2021, there will be a sharing of tips to have a more sustainable lifestyle. Special guests will join sponsor Inclusivi-Tee every day on Facebook, and each guest will give tips for creating a sustainability plan while also issuing a challenge for the day.
Vitality and Voting: Creating Hope Through Action
As we head into the final weeks before the national election, many of us are feeling anxious about the uncertainty of the election outcome and the potential challenges to voting stemming from both the pandemic, and the deep political and ideological divisions in our country. We invite our colleagues and partners to take an active stance in supporting one other, your staff and communities through this election season. Read about our strategic approach to supporting our staff, and utilize the curated list of resources we’ve compiled for this election season.
In recent years, about one-in-two adults in America reported experiencing loneliness. And that was before the COVID-19 pandemic cut off so many of us from friends, loved ones, and support systems, exacerbating loneliness and isolation.