Recently, I have been experiencing something that I have not encountered in a while: intense negative self-talk. Don’t get me wrong; I almost always have some little voice that tells me what I’ve done today wasn’t enough, etc. But recently, that little voice has grown...
As our world and our spaces get smaller, you may have noticed yourself becoming a bit more discerning about who and what you invite into your home, your energy, and your life. Whether you are finding yourself decluttering your home, purging your inboxes and to-do...
On a long drive, I was listening to Unlocking Us with Brene Brown and this episode featured sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski, authors of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. Nagoski and Nagoski shared a way to understand stress and burnout that I had...
In the time it will take you to read this article (about 12 minutes), 1 person will have died by suicide (Center for Disease Control Prevention). Notice I did not say “committed” suicide. If you think about it, what other acts do we often say one “committed”? A crime?...
I recall the first time I experienced this phenomenon. After a three-hour graduate course online—without any brain breaks facilitated by the professor, mind you—I logged off and continued to stare in the direction of my laptop. I had to blink several times to restore...
