{"id":47,"date":"2024-05-16T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviaspreview.com\/wp\/paroti\/?p=47"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:57:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:57:40","slug":"organic-food-export-can-transform-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesacfoundation.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"WESAC Hosts Mental Wellness Circle for Trauma Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2416\" data-end=\"2635\">WESAC Foundation held another powerful edition of its <strong data-start=\"2470\" data-end=\"2496\">Mental Wellness Circle<\/strong>, an emotional healing session designed for women who have experienced trauma, displacement, emotional distress, or major life transitions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2637\" data-end=\"2790\">The circle offered a compassionate and culturally safe space where women could breathe, reconnect with themselves, and receive strength from one another.<\/p>\n<h4>What the Session Included<\/h4>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-solid-color\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"2826\" data-end=\"2914\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"2828\" data-end=\"2914\"><strong>Guided grounding techniques to calm the mind and reconnect to the present moment<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"2915\" data-end=\"3003\">\n<h4 data-start=\"2917\" data-end=\"3003\"><strong>Breathing exercises and emotional release practices to reduce stress and anxiety<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"3004\" data-end=\"3099\">\n<h4 data-start=\"3006\" data-end=\"3099\"><strong>Open peer-support sharing, allowing women with similar experiences to uplift each other<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"3100\" data-end=\"3195\">\n<h4 data-start=\"3102\" data-end=\"3195\"><strong>Access to counselling referrals for those who needed professional mental health support<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"3196\" data-end=\"3282\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\" data-start=\"3198\" data-end=\"3282\"><strong>Tools for recognizing emotional triggers and coping with overwhelming feelings<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-start=\"3284\" data-end=\"3484\">Participants expressed deep gratitude, saying the session made them feel lighter, supported, and less alone.<br data-start=\"3392\" data-end=\"3395\" \/>Many shared that it was the first time they had a safe space to open up without judgment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3486\" data-end=\"3629\">Because of the continued impact, <strong data-start=\"3519\" data-end=\"3580\">WESAC will now host these Mental Wellness Circles monthly<\/strong>, supporting more women on their healing journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WESAC Foundation held another powerful edition of its Mental Wellness Circle, an emotional healing session designed for women who have experienced trauma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[23,22,24],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental_wellness__healing_support","tag-community_support","tag-mental_wellness","tag-skills_development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesacfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesacfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesacfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesacfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesacfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wesacfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/wesacfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesacfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesacfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesacfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesacfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}