Emotional Wellness, Habits & Goals, Healthy Boundaries
Concerned About Your Phone Use?
Technology alone is not enough. Steve Jobs What if it were easier to moderate our own phone use in 2022? That was the subject of a recent analysis by The ...
Habits & Goals, Healthy Boundaries, Seasonal
Your Holiday Weekend Survival Guide
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffet For many of us, this weekend kicks off a cherished hallmark of the ...
Emotional Wellness, Habits & Goals
Your Simple Guide to Habit Change
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so ...
Habits & Goals, Seasonal, Spring
Spring Cleaning for Your Emotional Wellness
The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don’t. Marie Kondo Spring is in the air. And for many of us, ...
Current Events, Emotional Wellness, Habits & Goals
Doomscrolling: 3 Tips to Help You Curb the Habit
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create. Roy T. Bennett It’s there in the dark as you squint into the blue ...
Habits & Goals, Mindfulness, Seasonal, Winter
25 Mindfulness Ideas to Try This Year
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with ...
Habits & Goals, Healthy Boundaries, Holidays, Seasonal, Winter
10 Things to Let Go of in the New Year
What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring into the new year. Vern McLellan As 2021 draws to a close, our thoughts ...
Current Events, Emotional Wellness, Habits & Goals
Social Media: 5 Questions You Might Be Asking Today
Social media is about sociology and psychology more than technology. Brian Solis Reunited and it feels so… good? After yesterday’s disruption to 2 of the most popular apps on the ...
Healthy Risk-Taking: 10 Simple Ways to Practice Vulnerability
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness. Brené Brown A common myth about emotional wellness is that asking for ...
Habits & Goals, Holidays, Seasonal, Winter
10 Acts of Kindness to Try this Season
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop No doubt, you’re knee-deep in lists by now. Grocery lists. Gift lists. Address lists. (You might’ve even started ...
Emotional Wellness, Habits & Goals
3 Easy Ways to Practice Generosity
Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked. Huston Smith Generosity. It’s one ...
Emotional Wellness, Habits & Goals
Struggling with Procrastination? Try This.
prepare for the holidays Clutter is the physical manifestation of unmade decisions fueled by procrastination. Christina Scalise Procrastination. Sooner or later, we all experience it. But for some of us, ...
Habits & Goals, Mindfulness, Seasonal, Winter
Mindful Goal-Setting
mindful goal-setting The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. Melody Beattie As ...
Emotional Wellness, Gratitude, Habits & Goals, Mindfulness
Perfectionism 101: 4 Creative Alternatives to Being “Perfect”
Last week, we shared some common signs of perfectionism. Maybe they got you wondering about your own relationship with “perfect”. Or about a friend or family member. But where do ...
How “Tidying Up” Can Improve Your Emotional Wellness
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is ...
Gratitude, Habits & Goals, Mindfulness
5 Emotional Wellness Habits to Adopt Today
You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. John C. Maxwell This is the time ...
10 Simple Ways to Practice Gratitude
Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present-oriented. Sonja Lyubomirsky ...
Habits & Goals, Healthy Boundaries, Relationships
Forget Work-Life Balance, Aim for This Instead
Work-life balance… that’s a debilitating phrase because it implies there’s a strict trade-off. It’s actually a circle. It’s not a balance. If I am happy at home, I come into the ...
When Healthy Hurts: Understanding Orthorexia
There’s a significant difference between being highly motivated to feel your best and obsessed or preoccupied with health. One feels empowering, practical and reasonable, and the other creates anxiety, guilt, ...
Positive Thinking: Is It Always Best?
Every day brings new choices. Martha Beck As the passing days and changing seasons… (…or UNchanging seasons…) …bring events and circumstances that we can’t necessarily change… It’s natural to shift ...
Habits & Goals, Healthy Boundaries, Mindfulness, Relationships, Self-Care
Unplug Your Way to Emotional Wellness
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. Anne Lamott This Friday marks National Day of Unplugging. An invitation to enjoy a 24-hour global respite ...
Habits & Goals, Seasonal, Winter
Habit Change in 3 Easy(-ish) Steps
Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped. Charles Duhigg Resolution or not, there’s probably something you’re ...