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Finding Hope Consulting

Translating cutting edge relational neuroscience into everyday activities that anyone can use to promote healing, resiliency and hope.

Founded in 2007 by Mary Vicario, Finding Hope Consulting addresses the gap in training available to communities by turning current brain chemistry research into practical interventions for children, adults and people with developmental disabilities who have experienced trauma. Through interactive and entertaining training, Finding Hope brings neurobiology to life using common language and interventions for clinicians, caseworkers, birth and foster parents, developmental disabilities service providers and others. In addition to training, Finding Hope Consulting provides “theory to practice” consultation to help you immediately apply your learning to your daily interactions with those you serve. Contact us at:
findinghopeconsulting@gmail.com
findinghopetraining@gmail.com

12/19/2025

Our new Applications in Resilience training offers a practical, brain-based look at fear-driven behaviors like aggression, defiance, hoarding, manipulation, and more. Across 8 focused sessions, you’ll learn how to recognize what’s happening beneath the behavior and apply targeted interventions that increase felt safety, strengthen connection, and rebuild trust.

✨ Early Bird Special: $550 (regularly $650) through the end of 2025
📜 Available for professionals with a Trauma Responsive Care Certificate

👉 Register today and deepen your capacity to support regulation, safety, and healing.
https://www.findinghopeconsulting.com/event-details/application-resilience

10/30/2025

It’s a true gift to have our stories told with kindness, curiosity and depth.

This feature in Women of Cincy does that for me, touching on the people, places, and lessons that continue to shape my journey, especially the importance of connection, curiosity, and hope in healing trauma.

If you’d like to read it, here’s the link: https://www.womenofcincy.org/home/mary-vicario

Photographer: Stacy Wegley, Courtesy of Women of Cincy.

10/27/2025

“Trauma is stored in the body, but so is resilience. Your body remembers, but it can also learn to feel safe again.”
— Dr. Arielle Schwartz

Your body can learn what calm, joy, and safety feel like again. Every gentle choice you make is part of that healing story.

What's one way you can be gentle with yourself today? Let's share ideas in the comments.

10/24/2025

It’s possible that strength looks different than we imagined. That it lives in the pauses, in the soft ways we keep showing up.

Through my work, I've learned that healing might not rush in all at once—but unfold slowly, with care.

And perhaps, in the midst of it all, hope finds its way to us, gently, again and again.

I invite you to imagine one small way you can take a brief pause for yourself today 💜

10/20/2025

Not every day calls for big moves.

Sometimes resilience is loud —
· Saying no
· Speaking up
· Taking bold action

And sometimes, resilience is quiet —
· Hydrating
· Breathing before reacting
· Doing one small thing when everything feels big

All of it counts. Every bit.
That’s how we grow stronger — not by pushing harder, but by responding to what we actually need.

Small steps, nervous system-friendly.
Gentleness is a kind of power in itself.

Share your quiet act of resilience below — I'd love to celebrate it with you.

10/17/2025

My hope is to bring neurobiology to life in a way that's relatable and actionable. Through engaging, interactive training, we empower clinicians, caseworkers, parents, and service providers with the tools they need to support healing.

Because years of experience has taught me that we need to do more than just teach theory—we need to provide consultation to help apply what we've learned, immediately making an impact in your work and with the people you serve.

If that sounds like a mission you're passionate about, let's get it touch:

https://www.findinghopeconsulting.com/contact-8

10/16/2025

You've made it through things that could have undone you. But they didn't.

You're still here—breathing, growing, trying again. That is no small thing.

Resilience isn't about pushing through without feeling.
It’s about honoring what you've carried and still choosing tenderness, truth, and hope.

You are not failing. You are healing. And that is the definition of resilience.

Go gently. You're doing enough.

10/13/2025

Who’s believed in you before you believed in yourself?

That’s your hope-dealer.
Not the loudest voice in the room —
But the steady one.
The one who sees your light, even when you can't.

And here’s the magic:
You can be that person too.

Being a hope dealer might look like:

💜 Listening without judgment
💜 Trusting someone’s process
💜 Sitting beside someone, not above them
💜 Offering presence instead of pressure

Hope doesn't always come with fireworks.
Sometimes, it comes in a whisper:
“I see you. I'm with you. Keep going.”

Tag your hope dealer below ⬇️
Or tell me — how are you offering hope right now?

10/10/2025

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult

What’s bending in your life right now? What are you holding, adapting, stretching to accommodate?

Resilience is the quiet strength that helps us stay connected to what we desire—even as life twists and turns. I hope you don't forget to notice that you are growing, even when it doesn't feel like it.

So, today, I invite you to make space for a short reflection:

✨ Where have you bent but not broken?
✨ What desires are you still holding close, even in hard seasons?

Your adaptability is the heart of your incredible strength and resilience 💜

10/06/2025

Wisdom, strength, clarity — they're often shaped in the hardest moments, not the easiest ones.

As the Dalai Lama says: ""It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.""

If you're in a hard season — be gentle with yourself. Growth is happening, even here.

10/04/2025

Movement. Sensory input. Mindfulness. Focus.

Our brain needs all four throughout the day—each like a thread in the tapestry of regulation and resilience. Sometimes we move first and settle later. Sometimes stillness feels hard, and we need gentle ways back to calm.

There’s wisdom in following what your body asks for. And compassion in knowing that healing doesn't follow a script. 💫

I invite you to send some love to your nervous system today by learning more about it here: https://navigationessentials.org/Trauma-and-Resilience/Four-Part-Plan?tab=tab-1

10/02/2025

This work has always been personal for me.

In my interview with Women of Cincy, I traced the roots of this journey—my early curiosity about people’s stories, the mentors who shaped me, and the quiet moments that kept me going.

It reminded me that what we do at Finding Hope is bigger than frameworks or trainings—it’s about holding space for real people, real histories, real hope.

I wrote a reflection on why this matters so deeply to me, and I'd be honored if you gave it a read.

👉 You can find the post here: https://www.findinghopeconsulting.com/post/why-this-story-matters-reflections-on-mary-vicario-s-interview-with-women-of-cincy

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The impact of trauma can be repaired. Resilience builds (in those we serve & ourselves) what is needed to release the effects of trauma and toxic stress and create the life you want, not the one you are driven to recreate. The Top 5 Resilience Factors are: Autonomy (Agency), Self Esteem, Affiliation, External Supports, and relationship with Positive Safe Adults. Resilience allows people to:

- Move on with their life.

- Have a life that does not revolve around the trauma.

- Create the life they want instead of what is familiar. Contact us at: info@findinghopeconsulting.com