Kind Wellness Group

If you have been thinking about checking out the Golden Hearts Rotaract Club - you are welcome to join th emeeting THIS Thursday at 2:00 at Torch 180!

A Gentle Return to Self

If you are unhappy,

begin with yourself.

Not as a problem to solve, but as a garden that may have gone untended.

Offer it water, rest, sunlight.

Sometimes sorrow is simply exhaustion asking for care.

If you are restless,

begin with the hands.

Plant something.
Mend something.
Create something.

What cannot be solved by thought sometimes softens through the act of creating.

If you are lonely,

begin with connection.

A message.
A conversation.
A shared silence.

The heart rarely asks for much more than presence.

And if you do not know where to begin,

begin anywhere.

A meal.
A walk.
A page.
A call.

Life rarely changes all at once.

It turns quietly on small, faithful acts

until one day,

almost without noticing,

what felt like surviving

has become

living again.

~ 'A Gentle Return to Self' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Drawsy Minimal

The Gleaners Mobile Food Pantry will be holding a distribution this Thursday, June 18, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the bus lot between the Freshman Campus and Highlander Way Middle School.

Remember, the Gleaners Mobile Food Pantry visits this location on the third Thursday of each month.

Most of us grew up in homes where feelings were something to manage quietly, not something to talk about.

If something hard happened, you moved on. If someone was upset, you gave it time and it would “blow over.” Nobody sat down and said “let’s talk about what just happened and how it made you feel.”

It wasn’t because our parents didn’t care. It’s because that’s what they were taught too, and the generation before them, and the one before that. Brushing things under the carpet wasn’t a personal failure; it was the only model anyone had.

But here’s what’s different now…

This generation of parents is doing something that hasn’t really been done before at this scale.

We’re lifting up that carpet! We’re looking at what’s underneath, the unspoken feelings, the unresolved moments, the things that got swept away because nobody knew what else to do with them. And instead of sweeping it back under, we’re naming it, sitting with it, and actually cleaning it up.

That’s not always comfortable. Sometimes it means realizing that things that felt “normal” growing up weren’t actually healthy. Sometimes it means sitting with your own child’s big feelings even when your instinct, the one you inherited, is to shut it down or move on quickly.

But every time you choose to acknowledge a feeling instead of dismissing it, you are rewriting the pattern. Not just for your child, but for every generation that comes after them too.

✨ Our kids deserve homes where feelings don’t get hidden; they get acknowledged. And that shift starts with us. ✨ 💜

Read that again: You are not your thoughts.

Just because your mind says:

* "I am not good enough"
* "Everyone is judging me"
* "I always mess things up"
* "Something bad is going to happen"

does not make it true.

We all have thoughts that are unfair, harsh, frightening or simply wrong. The problem starts when we treat every thought as a fact.

You can notice a thought without believing it.
You can have a thought without acting on it.
You can challenge a thought instead of letting it control you.

This simple shift can change the way we experience anxiety, stress, self-doubt and everyday life.

Free YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS POSTER FOR ANXIETY

LIKE the photo and comment "YOU" and we will send you a message with a link to a free PDF of this resource.

tell your story. kill the shame 🌷