Self-Care Habits for Wellbeing in Good Times and Bad Using your happy days to prepare for your hard days seems like a waste of energy, right? But it’s when the seas are calm, and things are going well that you can build a sturdy life raft to get through the storms. People shutter the windows and prepare their home before the storm to ride it out as safely as possible with as little damage as possible. Not that you should be waiting for doom, but let’s be real, life happens.…
How to Stop Overwhelming Yourself Keep it Simple These last few weeks I’ve been feeling intense, heavy energy. Maybe it’s partly the pressures of the holiday season closing in, maybe it’s partly the melancholy I feel every December – or maybe it’s something bigger and beyond me – like how complicated and overwhelming we’ve designed our lives to be. If you’re feeling a similar heaviness in your energy that is showing up as feeling fatigued, less motivated than usual, maybe not sleeping well at night – and you know you’re…
With less than 30 days left in the year, it’s time to get into gear to end this year strong and move into 2022 feeling more empowered. Maybe you made resolutions at the start of the year that haven’t quite held up, but those goals are still on your priority list. Things like improving your health, getting better sleep, improving your finances, are big over-arching goals and sometimes it’s harder to achieve those big goals because they’re too general and seem impossible. So, in these last days of the year,…
The Role in Life that I Am Playing Now and My Attachment to It You are not who you think you are. Let’s touch on the roles in life that you are currently playing, your attachment to them, and how they shape your identity and influence your perceived purpose. We start out in this lifetime with our first and life-long role of daughter or son and in many cases, sibling. Then we move into assuming additional roles throughout our lifetime such as romantic partner, friend, cancer survivor, neighbor, spouse, parent,…
Friends: Quality Over Quantity Is What Counts Through thick and through thin, in good times and in bad… sounds like marriage vows, but today we’re talking about something equally important: friendship. Friendship is crucial to our well-being throughout our lives. I’d even argue that friendships become more important as we get older. More so than having a large quantity of friends, it’s the quality of friendships that is so important to our emotional health. And the best part, when it comes to our emotional health, is that this an area…
How Do You Overcome Setbacks? Here are 4 techniques to help you coach yourself into having more perseverance Setbacks are an inevitable part of life. It’s how we manage those setbacks and successfully overcome them that often sets the optimists apart from the pessimists. I don’t believe that we are entirely either one or the other. I think we can have a primary setting; to see situations more naturally through the lens of positivity or negativity. But I also think it’s changeable from day to day and mood to mood.…