Elderly Care (Photo – sabinevanerp)
HOPE to Healing is an in-person wellness series designed to support LGBTQ+ adults in rebuilding emotional resilience, strengthening community connection, and reclaiming inner safety after disruption and loss.
By Katlyn Ong
Wildfires may have taken homes, routines, and familiar landscapes—but they did not take you. Through guided reflection, mindfulness, music, and storytelling, participants will explore themes of grief, identity, and belonging—while learning simple, practical self-care tools to support emotional wellbeing long after the series ends.
Each meeting will follow the following format:
- 5:00 – 6:00 pm – Resilience, hope, & healing facilitated session
- 6:00 – 7:00 pm – Complimentary supper
Meetings will take place at Pasadena Village, located at 236 W. Mountain Street, Suite #104 in Pasadena.
Series
- August 14: What is Home? – Redefining belonging after displacement
Click here to register - August 28: Love, Loss & What Remains – Honoring grief and making space for what still lives
Click here to register - September 11: Managing the Uncontrollable – Tools for calming the nervous system and regaining clarity
Click here to register - September 25: What is Safety? – Grounding and Reconnecting with self-trust
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Come as you are. Leave with community, clarity, and self-care tools you can return to—again and again. This will be facilitated by Stacie Yeldell, MA, MT-BC, mental health consultant with Project HOPE. Project HOPE is a global NGO that provides health and health-adjacent services in communities impacted by crisis and disaster. In the wake of the LA Fires, they’ve been working with local organizations, schools, and communities to support recovery and resiliency through a variety of interventions, including the provision of health care, distribution of supplies, and offering trauma-informed mental health programming for youth and community members across the fire impacted areas. Learn more about Project HOPE’s response here.
For questions, contact Program Associate Kieran Highsmith at kieran@pasadenavillage.org or call (626) 765-6037.
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