The simple answer: Self-care. Self-care is one of my seven key strategies for relieving stress and is the simplest and most effective way to PREVENT stress and overwhelm from taking hold in the first place. In fact, it is a … Continue reading →
How many times a day do you tell yourself what you should be doing? Or what you should not be doing? Or should not be thinking? Or should not be feeling? This is just one of the ways we often … Continue reading →
Do you resist ease? I confess. I do. I do so even though I am fully aware of the benefits of bringing more ease into my life; even though I know specific strategies that can help me to shift from … Continue reading →
We are always going to find ourselves in stressful situations. That’s a given. Learning to respond differently – in a way that reduces significantly the amount of stress we experience, before, during and afterward – is key. Here are seven … Continue reading →
What do Carla Harris, Shonda Rhines, Shawn Achor, Brené Brown, and Michelle Obama have in common? They were all keynote speakers at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women and they were ALL fabulous and inspiring! I was lucky enough to be … Continue reading →
“…self-compassion is a powerful way to achieve emotional well-being….” Kristin Neff writes this in the first chapter of her book, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself. I’m in the middle of reading this book. It’s the current … Continue reading →
A few weeks ago, I wrote about free-writing, and how helpful I was finding it – helpful in sorting out my thoughts, writing blogs, class planning, sifting through problems, and so forth. How such a “purposeless” task, was actually helping … Continue reading →
Stress is all around us. Or, more accurately, potential sources of stress – stressors – are all around us – everywhere you look! Even as I sit at my desk writing this, I can look around my office, and find … Continue reading →
I have an awful confession to make. It feels awful to me, anyway. I have over-committed myself and something has got to give. This means I am not going to be able to do everything I have said I would … Continue reading →
For past three weeks, I’ve been practicing “free-writing” for the first time in my life. I have never journaled or kept a diary (except for a brief, embarrassing phase as a teenager when I wrote about boys…), and never had … Continue reading →
