Happy holidays! Whatever you celebrate, I hope that your holiday season is joyful and filled with good friends, enjoyable family, yummy food and lovely events to attend. As I assist clients with navigating the often tricky business of family, holiday expectations and end of year work concerns, I often hear about an uptick in…
Category: Stress
Running on Green
Years ago, I wrote a blog by this same title, and I came across my original post as I was cleaning out old files recently. How fun to see one of my original posts! How relevant the topic remains, hence my rewrite today on the same topic. I had the pleasure of meeting famed…
Success Basics
There are lots of ways to take good care of yourself, and many ways to set yourself up, either for success or failure, in your life. I suggest, strongly, that you identify and choose several simple, daily habits likely to move you toward your ideal life. I’m talking here about the small stuff, like flossing,…
Cracks in the Functioning
I’ve been making mistakes lately—fortunately nothing major, but mistakes nonetheless. I managed to forget to text a client back to confirm their appointment. I told a colleague of mine to meet on Wednesday, when I meant all along for us to get together on Thursday. I left something in the fridge at my house that…
Realistic Life Balance
The other day, a client asked me to explain, “how do you get to it all?” She wanted a concrete explanation of how to actually field the various roles and responsibilities life throws our way, while also maintaining some semblance of health, without a sense of constant overwhelm. She was talking about how to manage…
45 Ideas to Help Soothe, Inspire & Ponder
I turned 45 this year. In honor of this big birthday, here are 45 ideas, thoughts, musings that I’ve gained over the years. In my lifelong quest for learning, I am always on the lookout for data that will help make me a better person, or (hopefully) contribute to making the world a better place.…
The power of getting to one task at a time: Using the “Understand, Apply and Shift” model of problem solving.
This week I realized that things were feeling a little out of control. I took stock and realized that I have been slipping into the great American pastime of multitasking. What this looks like for me is books piled on my nightstand (literally, I’m in the middle of 6 books right now), multiple projects that…
Holiday Joy!
There are all these articles out there about managing holiday stress (I’m pretty sure I’ve even written some of them!) and I started thinking about what a problem this is. Now, yes, for sure the holidays can feel stressful, filled with too much eating and spending, too many obligations and opportunities to be with family members who might…
When Self-Love is Disguised as Self-Shaming
On Valentine’s Day this year I noticed a shift in the messages in the media. Instead of messages pressuring us to buy the perfect gift, organize the perfect date and buy our significant other flowers and chocolate, the blogs and media outlets I follow were full of messages about self-love. But the brand of self-love…
Tips to sleep better during the holidays
Sleep. One of our most basic activities today but one that often gets neglected at times of high activity like the holiday season. Getting an adequate amount of sleep can help insure you have the energy you need (and want!) to maintain a busy social calendar or simple cope with family and travel stress that…