Find Your Joy: Restore, Replenish, Revive, Rebuild Through Resilience

Presented by: Mindsilike Wellness Foundation
📅 Start Date: December 20th, 2025
⏰ Duration: 4 Weeks | 2 Hours per Session
📍 Format: 4 Trauma-Informed Wellness Modules — 2 Virtual & 2 In-Person

Find Your Joy is a 4-week restorative wellness series created to support survivors of gender-based violence through trauma-informed, culturally grounded, and evidence-based healing practices.

Each session gently guides participants toward self-awareness, emotional regulation, and community connection, helping to rebuild confidence, inner peace, and a renewed sense of joy.

This program reflects the Mindsilike Wellness Foundation’s mission to advance holistic mental health and emotional wellness in Black and racialized communities through inclusive and accessible therapeutic care.

Focus: Understanding the impact of trauma and beginning emotional recovery.
Activities: Grounding exercises, storytelling circles, mindfulness practices.
Learning Outcomes:

• Identify personal strengths and coping patterns
• Recognize trauma responses and triggers
• Begin to build emotional safety within the group

Focus: Exploring holistic wellness through movement, mindfulness, and nutrition.
Activities: Gentle yoga, breathwork, and guided self-care rituals.
Learning Outcomes:

• Regulate stress through body-centered healing
• Reconnect with self-compassion and rest as a wellness strategy
• Integrate daily practices for emotional balance

Focus: Rediscovering joy, creativity, and purpose after trauma.
Activities: Expressive arts therapy, gratitude journaling, and community sharing.
Learning Outcomes:

• Use creative tools to process emotions and strengthen identity
• Understand the neuroscience of cultivating joy and ‘happy hormones’
• Reframe personal narratives around healing and hope
• Strengthen agency and self-worth

Focus: Building a foundation for long-term healing and connection.
Activities: Vision boarding, resilience mapping, and closing reflection circle.
Learning Outcomes:

• Develop a personalized wellness plan
• Identify community supports and resources
• Commit to ongoing self-advocacy and peer support
• Build lasting resilience

Alethia Cadore, MA, RP – Founder, Mindsilike Wellness Foundation
Alethia is a Registered Psychotherapist and trauma-informed practitioner with over 15 years of experience in resilience and community wellness. She specializes in supporting Black and racialized communities through programs that center empowerment, healing, and leadership.

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