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Treat yourself to one of these four festive beverages! Whether you're in the mood for something warm, cold, fruity, or chocolate, these drinks are recipes the entire family can enjoy.
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Season of Care Gift Ideas
Encourage self-care this season in your gifts to loved ones. Whether it’s for you, a friend, family member, co-worker, or a stranger, one of these items from our Season of Care gift list will show you care.
Hygiene and Mental Health
In October, I attended a meaningful three-day in-person retreat that highlighted the importance of real human connection beyond virtual spaces like Zoom. As seasons shift and isolation can increase, loneliness may deepen. I encourage being a “reach out warrior” to help counter loneliness through connection.
Finding Belonging in Foster Care
“Family” is often defined by marriage, blood, or adoption within a traditional household structure. But what truly makes a family? Beyond labels, family can be defined by connection—people who offer support, guidance, dependability, and unconditional care.
Creating a Crisis Safety Plan With Your Child
Are you a planner? As a parent or caregiver, there’s value in preparing for more than just life’s big milestones. Supporting your child also means planning for difficult moments along the way, including creating a crisis safety plan to help them navigate times when things feel overwhelming.
Suicide Prevention Tips
Suicide prevention is a heavy topic that can be overwhelming. Nexus Family Healing experts break down tips in a bite-sized, memorable way.
Hope Notes
Everyone needs a little encouragement or reminder that someone is thinking about them. Hope Notes provide that opportunity. Our handout provides ready-to-use notes with inspirational sayings to share with others and to start spreading hope – tuck a note into a pocket, a lunchbox, or a desk drawer.
Last Minute To-Do’s Before Back-to-School
Summer vacation will soon be over and the new school year will begin. There are many ways to help get your family off to a great start in the new school year by scheduling doctor appointments early, creating a routine, getting organized, and building a partnership with your child's teacher.
Mental Health in the Classroom
This guide provides talking points and tips for teachers who may have students struggling with their mental health in the classroom.
Worry Buddies
These handy little helpers can remind your child they are not alone. Worry Buddies can go with your child anywhere they go, always there to help them cope and take on your child's worries so they can move forward.
5 Tips to Tackle the Back-to-School Season
Back-to-school season often brings nerves, adjustment, and a bit of chaos as families return to routines and prepare for the year ahead. In today’s post-pandemic school environment, these transitions can feel even more complex. Here are five tips to help families navigate the back-to-school season together.
How To Take Control of Your Social Media
Have you ever found yourself scrolling on social media and realizing hours have passed? Mindless scrolling can sometimes negatively impact mental health. Here are some tips to help you take control of your social media use and create a healthier online experience.
Your Behaviors and Your Basic Needs: A Look at Choice Theory
Have you ever wondered why people make certain choices or behave the way they do? Choice Theory suggests that behavior is purposeful and aimed at meeting five basic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
5-Minute Restorative Yoga Practice
Making time to decompress, breathe, and release tension can bring positive changes to your physical and mental health, and your ability to handle daily obstacles and stress. Restorative yoga works to deeply relax the body, creating more space for healing, while calming and balancing the mind. It can be a great tool to teach children who need help managing their emotions. The beauty of this type of yoga is anyone can do it regardless of flexibility, fitness level, or yoga experience – you simply have to find comfort and breathe.
The Power of Your Words
The words you speak to yourself have the power to push you forward or tear you down. Positive affirmations can alter your internal self-talk and motivate you to change or take action. Affirmations can include quotes that inspire you, expressions of gratitude, or can directly relate to things your struggle with.
Navigating Power Struggles
As life returns to a more familiar rhythm, many people are feeling the emotional impact of the pandemic’s disruption. While there are messages encouraging us to relax and “exhale,” it can feel difficult or even unsettling to fully let go after so much unpredictability.
Popsicle Stick Positivity
Affirmations are positive statements that can alter your internal self-talk and motivate you to change or take action. These powerful words can boost self-confidence, reset your thinking, and support your mental health during challenging situations. Create your own affirmations with this easy, family-friendly activity!
Supporting Mental Health in Early Childhood
Power struggles are not enjoyable – when two people or parties are competing for control or influence, it makes for a very uncomfortable and frustrating experience. The more we can self-regulate the better we will be at dealing with difficult situations. Check out four strategies that will help guide you to avoid power struggles.
Support, One Day at a Time
This past year has been both challenging and rewarding, bringing stress, change, and new emotional demands in both work and personal life. Many are now asking how to manage it all while still striving to be their best selves.
Why Keep a Joy Journal
Many people are familiar with gratitude and its benefits for both physical and mental health. At Nexus Family Healing, we support youth and families through difficult times and encourage practices like keeping a “joy journal” to help notice and reflect on positive moments each day.
Conversation Starters
Conversation startersto get past the generic “I’m fine” response and learn more about how your family is feeling.
Fostering Gratitude
I am an adoptive parent and an adoption professional, licensed for foster care solely for adoption purposes. The children who joined my family had already been in foster placements and came to us as new family members. I’m deeply grateful to foster parents and the impact they’ve had on my child.
Family Joy Journal
A four-week journal to share positive notes with your family each day.
Family Wellness Calendar
A 31-day calendar with daily activities for strengthening family well-being.
Resources provided through our website are informational in nature and not meant to take the place of consulting your physician, mental health professional, or other qualified health providers regarding your well-being or the well-being of others.