Welcome to the Weekly Well-Being Connection! We’ve created this as a resource for our community and want to share the information with our AllHealth Network staff as well. We hope you enjoy reading and maybe even find the information useful to share with clients. We are excited to have Ally Burdick, of the Colorado Spirit […]

Welcome to the Weekly Well-Being Connection! Each week we will share advice from our clinical experts on ways to care for your mental health and well-being throughout COVID-19. We are excited to have Ayla Cook, MSW, of the Colorado Spirit team write this week’s post. The holiday season has usually been a time of joy

I don’t know about you, but when I walked out of my office on my last day of “regular” work last March, I did not in my wildest imagination think that come December I would still be working 100% remotely and my other family members would be continuing to work and school remotely. I also

As Thanksgiving approaches, I am seeing messages of thanks and gratitude pop up everywhere. I appreciate these messages but must admit sometimes I feel like our society (myself included) “goes through the motions” this time of year. Given the pandemic and the current surge in cases, I am struggling with the worry that a focus

Well, it is that time. Thanksgiving and all the winter holidays are upon us. Rates of COVID are rising around much of the country, Colorado included, and we are being implored by public health officials to avoid large gatherings. And many schools are returning to complete remote learning. This time of year can be intense and stressful

One of our executive leaders recently shared this message with our entire agency. “We owe you many thanks, but more importantly, we owe you our freedom. There is no way to fully thank our Veterans for everything you sacrifice for the peace we experience on a daily basis, but we have to try!” For me this brought a

Welcome to the Weekly Well-Being Connection! Each week we will share advice from our clinical experts on ways to care for your mental health and well-being throughout COVID-19. With the shifting of the seasons, many of us are naturally turning our thoughts to upcoming holidays and how they will be different. Holidays bring pressure to

Welcome to the Weekly Well-Being Connection! Each week we will share advice from our clinical experts on ways to care for your mental health and well-being throughout COVID-19. Throughout my time in the helping profession, I have talked with a lot of people about grief and loss. I have learned that people are often surprised

Things are feeling more intense right now I don’t know about you, but several of us on the Colorado Spirit team have noticed that things are feeling more intense right now. Between the change in weather, the huge challenges our state is facing with wildfires, the increase in COVID cases and hospitalizations in the state, pandemic