Over the past year, Circle of Hope has shifted gears to provide mental health services and psychoeducation through online channels. We conducted wellbeing events and webinars, offered mental health support for frontliners, and so much more. Since the pandemic started, we have received an influx of inquiries for counseling and therapy sessions, and so Project […]
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By Joanna Herrera, PsyD, RPsy, Executive Director, Circle of Hope Community Services Inc. “It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.” -Confucius I was born four months after the declaration of martial law. As a martial law baby, I have quite notable memories of growing up in a bleak and worrisome
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. -Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Anglican Church of Southern Africa and Human Rights Activist The past several weeks have been extraordinarily hard and painful as we witness human tragedy play out within the context of already turbulent times brought about by the
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Starting last week, Circle of Hope has been providing free telemental health services for healthcare workers who are at the frontlines of dealing with this extraordinarily challenging health crisis. We’ve had some grateful callers who inspire us so much to continue. Due to requests and the availability of more volunteers, we are offering these free
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We invite you to join our Circle of Hope Community to come together as one united, mindful, and compassionate human family. As the WHO Director-General has said in his recent bulletin, “Compassion is medicine.” Mindfulness is a practice that helps us open ourselves to the present reality with a wise and compassionate heart. Many research
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By Joanna Herrera PsyD, RPsy, Executive Director Recognize what is going on; Allow the experience to be there, just as it is Investigate with interest and care; Nurture with self-compassion. We know that this world crisis has thrust upon YOU our healthcare workers—physicians, nurses, medical technicians and other medical personnel, such great responsibility and immense
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By Joanna Herrera, PsyD, RPsy (Clinical Psychologist and Executive Director of Circle of Hope Community Services, Inc.) Valentine month is here. We commonly think of loving as an outward direction, as something that we give to others. But love can very much, and in fact, simultaneously needs to be an inward flow. Loving oneself is
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By Alyssa Leana Que, MA, Early Childhood Educator The Circle of Hope team was off to a great start this year by resuming activities for the 0-5 Caravan (link to previous blog post) module. We returned to Angono, Rizal, last Saturday, January 11, to conduct a session on breastfeeding and nutrition with community members. This was the second
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by Joanna Herrera, PsyD, RPsy(Clinical Psychologist and Executive Director of Circle of Hope Community Services, Inc.) Brain science, which has seen amazing advances over the past four decades, has made it undeniably clear that happiness and wellbeing can only become stronger in our lives through practice. While there are genetic factors that create some sort
By Angel Belle C. Dy, RMT, MD, MBA (Binhi-Early Childhood Parenting Program Lead and Circle of Hope Trustee) Last November 9, 2019, the Circle of Hope team ventured to Rizal for the first of a series from the Early Childhood Development Resource Caravan for Communities or what we like to call the 0-5 Caravan. We
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