Our Hour is a cost-free peer group. The anonymity of members will be respected. Membership must be 18 years or older. Discussion topics will vary and may range from depression, anxiety, stress, grief and loss, work/life balance, anger, addictions and relationship issues.

4/20/22- Self-Talk: Do you believe in the power of self-talk? The way we talk to ourselves can change our lives. Join us for Our Hour this week for a night filled with positive affirmations. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL through positive affirmations.

3/30/22: The comeback, not the setback: Do you ever find yourself focusing more on the failure than the comeback? We tend to stay stuck in our failures without shining attention on how we overcome a lot of challenges in life. Join us for Our Hour this week to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL about the courage it takes to get up, dust off and fight on.

3/16/22: Empathic Reactivity: Do you possess the beautiful gift of empathy? Does this gift sometimes burden you? Join us for Our Hour to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to non-reactive empathy.

2/16/22: Identity Clutter: Are you struggling to balance all of your identities in life? Do you take on too much on and rarely complete tasks/goals? Join us for Our Hour as we SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to our VALUED identities.

2/2/22: A Bundle of Nerves: Are you crawling out of your skin with anxiety? Has this pandemic created a new level of panic and fear within you? Join us for Our Hour this week to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our ways to less anxiety and more peace.

1/5/22: Making this year count! Do you feel like you can never fully accomplish your New Year resolution? Well, you’re not alone! Join the club! Most of the world struggles accomplishing goals. Why? Let’s find out together. Join us for Our Hour this week to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to making our new year count!

11/17/21: Loving Detachment: Are you struggling to find healthy boundaries with loved ones? Are you interested in learning how to detach with love? Join us for Our Hour this week as we SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to loving detachment.

11/3/21: Emotional Armor: Are you able to protect your emotions? How do you wear your emotional armor? Join us for Our Hour this week as we SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to a healthy balance between vulnerability and emotional armor.

10/20/21: Steps for Self-Care: Looking for ways to maximize self-care? Join us for Our Hour tonight as we explore ways to get into self-care routines. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL ourselves to enhanced self-care practices.

10/6/21: Happiness Check-In: Let’s keep the positivity going! Happiness is contagious. Join us for Our Hour this week to continue our dialogue on happiness so that we SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to moments of happiness and joy.

8/4/21 Your Hamster Wheel: Someone near and dear to me often refers to his anxieties and ruminating thoughts as the hamster wheel inside his head. Join us for Our Hour tomorrow night to let your hamster free from it’s wheel! We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way through our anxieties and worries.

7/21/21: Positive Thinking: What are you looking at? Is your perspective one of optimism or pessimism? We can choose what we see. We have power over our thinking. Join us for Our Hour tonight to enhance our positive thinking. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to optimism.

7/7/21: Cancelled: Our Hour will be cancelled this week. So this is a great opportunity for us to practice self-care on your own! Dedicate this next week to self-care for yourself. Practice self-love and self-compassion. And then we can join together next time to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL about our self-care practices.

6/30/21: Small Wins: Do you overlook simple small wins throughout your day? What would your life be like if you celebrated all of your small wins? Join us for Our Hour this Wednesday to glorify all of our small wins. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to feeling victorious.

6/2/21: Self-love: Do you love yourself unconditionally? Do you fully accept every part of you? Let’s be honest, many of us struggle loving ourselves unconditionally. We are easy to judge ourselves for being imperfect. What if I told you that you are perfectly imperfect? Join us for Our Hour this Wednesday to practice unconditional self-love. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to total and judgement-free self-love.

5/19/21: Self-Care Domains: Did you realize that self-care can be applied to various aspects of your life? Are you dedicating time to all of these self-care domains? Join us for Our Hour this week to explore these self-care domains. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our ways to well-rounded self-care practices.

4/21/21: The Power of Self-Talk: How do you talk to yourself? Do you give yourself recognitions and compliments? How can self-affirmations enhance your life? Join us for Our Hour to discuss the power of self-affirmations in our lives. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL ourselves to self-love.

4/7/21: You Are Enough: Has anyone told you lately that you are enough? We are all doing the best we can AND we can always work to improve. How would your life change if you saw yourself and others through that perspective? Join us tomorrow for Our Hour to discuss this dialectic and SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to compassion for self and others.

3/24/21: “What do I need right now?” Have you ever felt like you were going to implode? Have you had that moment when you wanted to scream, run, hide, pull your hair out and/or all of the above? Well join the club of being human! Join us for Our Hour this week from 7-8 pm on Zoom to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way through those moments of distress.

3/10/21: Taking Back Your Power: Do you feel like you lost control over everything? Do you wish you could get back to life before the pandemic? Are you feeling like you lost your purpose, routine, goals? Join us for Our Hour this week on Zoom from 7-8 pm to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way back to being in-control of our lives.

2/17/21: “It’s Complicated”– Do you feel stifled by the people you live with? Has this pandemic interfered with your space and alone time? Are you noticing challenges in getting along with others lately? You’re not alone! Join us for Our Hour this week to explore the complicated nature of our relationships. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to healthier relationships with others.

2/3/21: Stress- The Silent Killer: How is stress manifesting in your life? Do you have any stress-relieving techniques that work for you? Join us for Our Hour this week to discuss stress and ways to cope. Let’s SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to less stress in our lives.

1/20/21: Self-Care Recharge! Phew! What a long Holiday Season filled with fun, more fun, chaos, more chaos, stress and more stress! Often times, we get lost in the fast-paced Holiday buzz that we forget about ourselves. This week in Our Hour, we will be refocusing on ourselves. We will be taking personal inventory and recharging our self-care minds so that we can embark on this 2021 year with focus on the most important person in our lives- ourselves! Join Our Hour this week virtually from 7-8 pm to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL.

1/6/21: Making this year count! Do you feel like you can never fully accomplish your New Year resolution? Well, you’re not alone! Join the club! Most of the world struggles accomplishing goals. Why? Let’s find out together. Join us for Our Hour this week to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to making our new year count!

12/30/20: Holiday Reflection: Did Christmas just fly by? Were you all caught up in the chaos of the holiday spirit that you didn’t get a chance to stop and reflect? Are you feeling emotionally suppressed? Join us for Our Hour this week on Zoom to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way into self-reflection.

12/2/20: I Just Don’t Have it in Me: Do you find it hard to muster up the energy to complete simple tasks? Are you feeling low on energy and motivation? Join us for Our Hour this week on Zoom and/or in-person from 7-8 pm to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way back to completing our goals.

11/18/20: Taking Back Your Power. Do you feel like you lost control over everything? Do you wish you could get back to life before the pandemic? Do you feel a lack of control over holiday plans? Join us for Our Hour this week on Zoom from 7-8 pmto SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way back to being in-control of our lives.

11/4/20: Winter Blues. Do you feel increased sadness during the winter months? Do you struggle finding the energy to keep up with life this time of year? You might be struggling with Seasonal Affective Disorder AKA the Winter Blues. Join us for Our Hour this week to explore our depressive symptoms this time of year. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to coping with our Winter Blues.

9/30/20: Riding the Waves of Emotions. I don’t know about you but my emotions seem to be heavier than usual right now. Maybe it’s the change of seasons. Maybe it’s the stress of covid. Maybe it’s just me. Whatever the cause, my feelings are valid and the struggle is real. Are your emotions heavy and getting in the way of daily life functioning? Join us for Our Hour this week to explore our feelings. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to emotional healing.

9/16/20: You are the most important person in your life. Let’s keep the dialogue going about setting boundaries for ourselves. Are you struggling to find time for yourself? Are you juggling more than one role to make sure everyone around you gets their needs and wants met? Are you feeling burnt out of those various roles that you are playing? Join us for Our Hour this Wednesday to discuss the stressors of caring for others at the expense of forgetting about ourselves. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our ways to setting boundaries so that we get our needs and wants met.

9/2/20: “No” is a complete sentence: Are you struggling with people-pleasing? Do you say, “yes”, to almost everything? Do you feel tired, irritated and stressed almost all of the time? Join us for Our Hour this Wednesday to discuss healthy boundaries to manage the demands of everyday life. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our ways to balanced lives with healthy boundaries.

8/19/20: I’m Afraid of My Own Shadow: Are you struggling with anxiety? Does it interfere with your day-to-day functioning? You’re not alone! Join us for Our Hour tomorrow night to explore how anxiety shows up in your life as well as helpful coping skills to overcome the scary shadow that keeps following you around. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to lives filled with more peace and serenity.

8/5/20: Your Hamster Wheel: Someone near and dear to me often refers to his anxieties and ruminating thoughts as the hamster wheel inside his head. Join us for Our Hour tomorrow night to let your hamster free from it’s wheel! We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way through our anxieties and worries.

7/29/20: Self-Care Social Outing: Join us this week for a self-care social outing! We will be meeting at Scent and Sip in Lansdale. We will join together in self-care practices as we make our own aroma therapies. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Group Facilitator, Jackie, at ourhour6519@gmail.com.

7/22/20: Cancelled: Our Hour will be cancelled this week. So this is a great opportunity for us to practice self-care on our own! Dedicate this next week to self-care for yourself. Practice self-love and self-compassion. And then we can join together the following week for Our Hour to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL about our self-care practices.

7/15/20: Be the change you want to see in the world: Join us for Our Hour this week to take accountability for the role you can play in this world. How can you motivate positive change? How can you choose kindness today? Let’s SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to kindness and prosocial change.

7/1/20 & 7/8/20: WE’RE BACK! Join us for Our Hour IN-PERSON this week to explore how our emotional needs have been affected by covid. What were you missing during the stay-at-home order? Let’s SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL away from isolation and into emotional connection and healing.

6/24/20: The Blame Game: Join us for Our Hour this week to discuss what it really means when we play the blame game. Ever hear the saying, “When you point the finger at someone else, there are three fingers pointing right back at you”? Let’s SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way from blaming others to taking accountability for the roles we play in life.

6/17/20: Judgments from Self and Others: Join us for Our Hour this week to explore how judgments from ourselves and others impact our daily lives. Let’s come together to talk about the difficulties living in a judgmental world. Let’s SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way through these judgments so that we come out stronger and more self-confident.

6/3/20 and 6/10/20: Adjusting to Change: Join us for Our Hour this Wednesday to explore challenges we may face adjusting to the new “norm” of our world. We can work together to discuss strategies for coping with change so that we come out feeling confident and in-control. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to normalcy again.

5/27/20: Game Night! Join us for Our Hour this Wednesday to give much needed attention to hobbies and leisure activities. Life is not all about being serious. There needs to be time for fun and games. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to good old fashioned fun.

5/20/20: Self-love: Do you love yourself unconditionally? Do you fully accept every part of you? Let’s be honest, many of us struggle loving ourselves unconditionally. We are easy to judge ourselves for being imperfect. What if I told you that you are perfectly imperfect? Join us for Our Hour this Wednesday on Zoom from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm to practice unconditional self-love. We will SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way to total and judgement-free self-love.

5/6/20 and 5/13/20: Grief: Are you struggling with mixed emotions over the loss of something near and dear to you? Grief is so complicated. The first step in overcoming grief is awareness that it is even a thing in your life. Join us for Our Hour this Wednesday on Zoom from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm to bring awareness to some unresolved grief. We will help each other to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL from our losses in life.

4/29/20: Self-Validation: Are you holding things in because you don’t think they are important enough to share? Are you judging yourself for your feelings, thoughts, and/or life experiences? Do you notice the following: trouble sleeping, irritability, using drugs or alcohol in excess, over-eating, self-harming? Join us for Our Hour this Wednesday on Zoom from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm to validate ourselves. We will help each other to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL to self-compassion.

4/22/20: Fatigue Management: Are you mentally and physically exhausted from all of the worrying that you’ve been doing? Do you struggle to find the time or energy to plan ahead and/or organize your life? Does it feel like you are on mental and physical autopilot and you’re running out of fuel? Join us for Our Hour this week on Zoom from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL.

4/15/20: Worry Time: Do you feel consumed by worry? Is worrying distracting you from daily life functions? Do you worry so much that you worry about your worrying? Join us for Our Hour this week on Zoom from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our worries away.

4/8/20: Taking Back Your Power: Do you feel like you lost control over everything? Do you wish you could get back to life before the pandemic? Are you feeling like you lost your purpose, routine, goals? Join us for Our Hour this week on Zoom from 6:30-7:30 pm to SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL our way back to being in-control of our lives.

3/12/20: Resentments: Who are they really hurting? Are you experiencing mental health symptoms or physical maladies that seem to be coming out of nowhere? How are your relationships in life? Are you harboring resentments? Perhaps you are actually the victim of your resentments toward others. Resentments hurt the beholder the most. This week at Our Hour, we will be exploring our resentments, the effects resentments have on our minds and bodies and the path to forgiveness. Join us for Our Hour this week at OLHC Church from 7-8 pm to SHARE, LISTEN AND HEAL our way from resentment to forgiveness! Contact Jackie for directions if needed at ourhour6519@gmail.com.

3/4/20: Resentments: Who are they really hurting? Are you experiencing mental health symptoms or physical maladies that seem to be coming out of nowhere? How are your relationships in life? Are you harboring resentments? Perhaps you are actually the victim of your resentments toward others. Resentments hurt the beholder the most. This week at Our Hour, we will be exploring our resentments, the effects resentments have on our minds and bodies and the path to forgiveness. Join us for Our Hour this week at MMR Church from 7-8:30 pm to SHARE, LISTEN AND HEAL our way from resentment to forgiveness! Contact Jackie for directions if needed at ourhour6519@gmail.com.

2/26/20: No Our Hour Due to Ash Wednesday, Our Hour will not be held this week. However, that does not mean that emotional wellness is on break! The true test to emotional wellness is what happens outside of the sessions. What are you doing when no one is watching? How are you treating yourself? And so, this week, what can you do for yourself on Wednesday from 7-8 pm? SHARE, LISTEN and HEAL with yourself or someone else.

2/19/20: Game Night! Often we get lost in the chaos of daily life. There is so much work to do, bills to pay, people to see and care for and sleep to be had. When’s the last time you stopped and played a game? Most of us do not have fun enough because we feel that we don’t have enough time for fun. Well Our Hour is here to teach the value of fun and the therapeutic necessity of laughter, games, and socialization. Join us for Our Hour this week at MMR Church from 7-8:30 pm to SHARE, LISTEN AND HEAL while we play games, laugh our pants off and form memories with friends. Contact Jackie for directions if needed at ourhour6519@gmail.com

2/11/20: “What a shame!” Guilt and shame. Do we know the difference? Does the difference even matter? Maybe, maybe not! What does matter is if guilt and/or shame seems to be encompassing your thoughts and emotions. Through sharing, listening and healing, we can get to the bottom of the guilt and/or same we may be feeling. We can help identify strategies to overcome these unbearable feelings. Come to Our Hour this week, Wednesday, 2/12/20 at OLHC Church from 7-8 pm. Contact Jackie for directions if needed at ourhour6519@gmail.com.

2/5/20: Game Night! Often we get lost in the chaos of daily life. There is so much work to do, bills to pay, people to see and care for and sleep to be had. When’s the last time you stopped and played a game? Most of us do not have fun enough because we feel that we don’t have enough time for fun. Well Our Hour is here to teach the value of fun and the therapeutic necessity of laughter, games, and socialization. Join us for Our Hour this week at MMR Church from 7-8:30 pm to SHARE, LISTEN AND HEAL while we play games, laugh our pants off and form memories with friends. Contact Jackie for directions if needed at ourhour6519@gmail.com

1/29/20: Ted Talks To Me! Do you struggle with depression and/or anxiety in some form at any point in your life past or present? If you’re a human, you probably answered, “yes”, to this question. Depression and anxiety are only sometimes attributed to biological imbalances and more often related to life imbalances. This week at Our Hour, we will be listening to a Ted Talk together in order to find the causes and solutions for Depression and Anxiety. Join us for Our Hour this week at MMR Church from 7-8:30 pm to SHARE, LISTEN AND HEAL through the words of wisdom as Ted Talk to us! Contact Jackie for directions if needed at ourhour6519@gmail.com.

1/22/20– Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. Looks can be deceiving, huh? Check out my recent blog entry for more insight and self-reflection. This week at Our Hour, we will be talking about the things we may be trying to cover up. We may look like we have it all together on the outside but we can’t judge a book by it’s cover. Through sharing, listening and healing, we will open up about the raw things beneath the surface. Come to Our Hour this week at OLHC Church from 7-8 pm. Contact Jackie for directions if needed at ourhour6519@gmail.com.

1/15/20- Self-Care Recharge! Phew! What a long Holiday Season filled with fun, more fun, chaos, more chaos, stress and more stress! Often times, we get lost in the fast-paced Holiday buzz that we forget about ourselves. This week in Our Hour, we will be refocusing onto ourselves. We will be taking personal inventory and recharging our self-care minds so that we can embark on this 2020 year with focus on the most important person in our lives- ourselves! Come to Our Hour this week at MMR Church from 7-8:30 pm to share, listen and heal. Contact Jackie for directions if needed at ourhour6519@gmail.com.