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Anger is a tough one. For many of us, especially those in caregiving roles, it’s not something we feel comfortable expressing. So, we do what we’ve learned to do: push it down, tell ourselves it’s not a big deal, take the bitter pill and “suck it up.” But anger doesn’t disappear just because we ignore it. It lingers in the background, slowing the mental computer, dulling the vibrancy of the day, and quietly shaping a narrative that says, “I don’t really matter.” Over time, resentments build, reactions intensify, and often we don’t even know why.

We lose sight of our triggers. We don’t recognize that what someone said or did today may be touching something much older, something rooted in a different time, a different land from a far off place within us. As a result, the anger feels justified and immediate, but also confusingly amplified. And sometimes, we’re angry because we can’t change what’s in front of us. We feel stuck. We feel powerless. That, too, fuels the fire.

GIVE YOUR VOTE

Wellspring Psychological Services is exploring future group and workshop offerings and would love to hear from our community. Whether you are interested in participating in a group, workshop, or simply sharing what topics and services would feel most supportive, your feedback is greatly appreciated.

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Your input helps us better serve the needs of the Monterey County community.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Identity & Meaning Workshop

Join our Identity & Meaning 6-week in-person group designed for adults aged 50+ seeking deeper self-understanding, reflection, and meaningful connection. Through guided education, activities, and discussion, participants will explore topics such as values, identity, self-worth, narrative identity, body relationship, and connection with others in a supportive group setting led by Taylor Neff, PhD.

Thursdays, June 4 – July 9

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Wellspring Psychological Services, Monterey

$60/session | Medicare and commercial insurance accepted

To Register call: (831) 647-8490, or

office@wellspringbranches.com

Relationship Enrichment Workshop

Deepen Connection • Improve Communication • Strengthen Your Relationship

Saturday, June 27, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

In-Person Workshop | Branch B

Limited to 6 Couples

Prepare/Enrich is an assessment-based couple’s enrichment program built upon over 45 years of research to help couples strengthen communication, deepen understanding, and build healthier relationships.

What’s Included:

Prepare/Enrich assessment fee

Workshop materials

Lunch

Pricing: $250 per couple

Early Bird Special: $225 if registered before May 31

To Register call: (831) 647-8490, or

office@wellspringbranches.com

Movement & Dance

Emotions don’t just live in our minds — they live in our bodies. The tightness in your chest before a hard conversation.

The heaviness that settles in your limbs after a loss. The restlessness that has no name but won’t leave you alone. Your body has been holding things long before you had words for them — and sometimes it needs to move before it can let them go.....

Hands & Art

For as long as we have existed, humans have reached for color, clay, and mark-making when inner life became too heavy to carry quietly.

Cave paintings dating back 40,000 years weren’t records of events — they were expressions of experience. Someone pressed pigment into stone because something inside them needed to exist outside of them....

Sound & Music

Singing and music moves through sound — it travels outward from your body, or enters through listening and resonates internally.

It’s relational and temporal. It exists in time and then it’s gone, but what it moves in us has a way of staying. A certain song can unlock a grief, a memory, a feeling we’ve kept sealed away for years. That’s not magic — it’s how the brain...

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf”

- John Kabat-Zinn -

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Life struggles can feel like one wave crashing after the other.

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf”