Author: Avery Schwartz
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Forms of Mental Wellness Support
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When dealing with workplace mistreatment, it’s easy to feel trapped. Helpless. Like it’s you against the world (or at minimum, a nasty boss or co-worker). Even when your situation feels overwhelming, it’s important to remember that you are not alone in the battle to stay healthy and grounded. You may have family members or friends…
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Strategies for quick recovery when dealing with a panic or anxiety attack
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Being employed in a toxic workplace can take a tremendous toll on your mental health, so it’s no wonder that workplace mistreatment results in depression, stress, and heightened anxiety – sometimes to the point where you may have a panic attack at work. Experiencing an anxiety attack or panic attack in the office, at a…
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Forms of Wellness
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I’ll never forget when an investor told me about his workplace abuse. I was practicing a pitch to prepare for an early-stage financing round. I’d done the research and the planning with the hope of raising between $150k and $300k for Velamentis. At this point, I was taking many opportunities to practice my pitch. During…
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Benefits for Managers and Leaders
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When we were developing our content framework for employees, we would sometimes be asked, “How can Velamentis help me, a manager, navigate difficult manager-employee situations?” This type of question was usually accompanied by an anecdote about a tricky manager-employee run-in. Early on, we were eager to develop content specifically geared toward supporting managers and anyone…
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The Experience of Workplace Trauma
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English is a flexible language with amazing descriptive power when used correctly. You can string together words to make a pun, tell a story, or describe a sunset. But it’s sometimes quite tough to translate your own personal experiences into coherent words that make sense to others. After meeting your favorite singer, were you “elated,”…
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Building a Framework
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From the beginning, we here at Velamentis knew that trying to break down workplace abuse and make full sense of it as a concept would be challenging. While phrases like “toxic behavior” and “workplace culture” are frequently discussed, we gained insights from both firsthand experience and research that trying to describe these experiences is often…
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What’s the point, really?
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It took about three years to develop Velamentis on a bootstrap budget. During that time, while we didn’t have a digital presence, we were pleased we could help employees directly. By phone, email, or conference calls, when we could carve out time, we would listen and discuss their situation, offer insights and potential paths to…
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Ready(ish) for Take-off
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Velamentis is comprised of passionate professionals who have come together with the goal of providing a support foundation for workers dealing with workplace mistreatment and trauma, also referred to as workplace abuse and workplace PTSD. We have a deep development roadmap, and as we receive feedback from you, we’ll do our best to adapt to…