10 tips for coping with grief
For those dealing with grief, whether it’s recent or not, the holidays can stir up many emotions. Maybe a loss seems heavier, or sadness or loneliness feels overwhelming. Paula Stephens, Abby's Impact: Realizing Resilience Program Coordinator, shares essential advice to help individuals navigate this time of year when they are dealing with grief.
A Gift For You, From You: Closing the Year with Self Kindness
The end of the year can be difficult, from holiday stress and mixed emotions, to dwindling daylight and cold nights. Many of us struggle to be kind to ourselves in the best of times, let alone when we’re facing extra stressors, but learning to be kind to ourselves is one of the best tools for building our resilience and overall wellbeing.
Abby’s Impact: Building your mental health toolbox
JFS’s Abby’s Impact: Realizing Resilience program is a virtual learner-centered mental health education program that provides a framework for dealing with daily stress and life’s struggles. It offers participants resources and tools to facilitate resilience so they can build their own mental health toolboxes. Learning coping and problem-solving skills is life-changing and critical for well-being.
Abby’s Impact: Strengthening participants’ sense of self
For those who believe focusing on themselves is selfish, we need to change that mindset and realize that doing so allows us to be present, build confidence, strengthen our relationships, learn about our values and prioritize them to make the right choices for us. Enter the JFS Abby’s Impact: Realizing Resilience program. This client-centered mental health education program provides a framework for dealing with daily stress and life’s struggles.
Becoming the best version of yourself
Neither Chelsea nor her wife came from healthy family environments. They weren’t surrounded by the type of support systems that help shape strong life skills and promote emotional well-being, and they were stuck in a vicious cycle of generational poverty. When the couple came to JFS, their lives changed in the most wonderful of ways.
Propelling Tammi Toward a Brighter Future
Since Tammi came to JFS for employment support in March, she has fully immersed herself in the many Employment Services and Abby’s Impact programs and classes we offer.
Abby’s is Making an Impact
Abby’s Impact: Realizing Resilience officially kicked off at the beginning of August. Due to COVID-19, programming was changed to a virtual format. Learn more about this program and some early success stories.
Abby’s Impact: Helping Keyauja Achieve Her Goals
Keyauja, a mother of two, recently completed five classes in JFS’s Abby’s Impact: Realizing Resilience program and shares how these classes helped her achieve her goals.