Creating Health and Healing During the Holidays for Grief Management Wishing someone a polite “Happy Holidays” is a well-intentioned seasonal greeting. However, for those who have experienced loss, the greeting—and the holidays in general—are painful reminders of their grief and the past memories they may be reliving. For someone who is feeling unhappy (due to…
November opens the holiday season and with it, many mixed feelings and emotions. Cute pictures from Halloween of costumed pets and kids still fill newsfeeds as daily posts of thanksgiving start to roll in. It can seem like everyone around us is ushering in the season with delight as fall fills the air. However, it…
It has been four years since the deadliest shooting in the modern history of the United States. Sometimes, I close my eyes and I can still see the lights and the panic in my coworkers’ faces, who like me, were working at that October 1st festival, but the main memory that still takes away my…
For those impacted by the Route 91 Harvest Festival, October 1, 2017, is a day that forever holds special meaning. Routers tell me that they were having the time of their lives during the weekend of the festival, right up until it turned into running for their lives. It’s coming up on four years since…
If you ask anyone what “wellness means,” you are likely to come across many different responses. Let’s start with the Webster Dictionary definition of “wellness.” “The state of being in good health, especially as an actively pursued goal.” But what does that actually mean? “The state of being in good health” with regards to what?…
As the Independence Day holiday approaches, many individuals who have experienced incidents of mass violence will be making plans that look very different from the traditional types of celebrations. Some will be trying to figure out how to escape to a place that will be quiet and away from any crowds—not an easy thing to…
June is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month. This disorder occurs when someone has experienced a life or death situation, or when knowing that one of our loved ones suffered a traumatic experience. PTSD may cause some of the following symptoms: depression, anxiety, fear, avoiding people or places, nightmares or trouble falling asleep, intrusive memories, irritability,…
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which seems tremendously relevant this year as the US begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic with many communities experiencing record-high levels of anxiety and depression. Thankfully, there are many available resources you can access for information and coping strategies around common struggles that affect mental wellness, both online…
The Vegas Strong Resiliency Center is pleased to join other victim service providers and allied professionals throughout the nation in celebrating the 40th anniversary of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 18 through 24. It is a week to honor the many achievements in the victim services realm as well as a time to reflect…
March is already here! 2021 is quickly going by! March 8th is International Women’s Day, a day to commemorate women, stop violence against women, and stop violence against those of any gender, ethnicity, age, cultural background, etc. The way to stop violence is by building empathy and compassion among each other. When communities have the…