Our world today is a challenging path to navigate. All the emotions arising from wars, conflict, fears, and political and financial unease are complicated to process, not to mention the challenges that come forward in our daily relationships. Part of the difficulty...
We are in groundbreaking territory to mental health developments, which includes our approach and utilization of our emotions for prevention and healing. Click on the image below to play this short video honoring World Mental Health Day! Feel free to email me your...
September is National Suicide Prevention Month. What growth we have had as a society, as the once unmentionable subject of suicide, is more and more openly discussed. And for good reason, as suicide rates continue to increase. When feeling suicidal, you can’t find a...
I’ve been waking up early most days over the last few weeks. The feelings are a mixture of anxiety, sadness, and grief. I hear those emotions calling me to face the fact that change is happening. I listen closely. My anxiety doesn’t want me to forget the million...
"We can be an agent of disease and death just by how we treat others." Take a moment to take this statement in. The truth of what Dr. David Williams, chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard, shared blew me away. He spoke about the...
I’ve been there... When you’ve got an idea of how something will go, perhaps even someone led you to believe it would go a certain way, but the reality of your experience falls short of what you expected. Perhaps you received an email from a colleague who told you she...
Hopefully, you have heard that it is Mental Health Awareness Month by now. Thankfully, more and more people believe that our awareness about mental health needs to be an everyday occurrence. But what does it mean to be aware? Definitions of awareness include: -...
April is Stress Awareness month, and part of what is essential to recognize is the psychological cause of stress, which is uncomfortable emotional experiences. Negative emotions arise when we are stressed because we experience pressure to be and do more than what our...
When organizations are in a state of fear about profits and results, the go-to has been to turn to force to change employees’ behaviors. For example, force them to come into the office five days a week, attend more meetings, be monitored at their computer, etc. The...
What I admire most about women is our ability to be simultaneously strong yet yielding. Early on in my life, I used to think that these qualities were an either-or proposition. Yet, we were literally born to be both. It is what is required of us, whether we give birth...