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 ...
5 Ways to Deepen Your Relationships This Season
deepen your relationships A deep connection starts with interest, open-mindedness, and paying attention… April Mae Monterrosa Not all relationships are created equal. Even our most important relationships can vary widely: ...
10 Holiday Boundaries to Set this Season
holiday boundaries Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. Brené Brown Try to imagine the holiday season without any ...
Emotional Wellness Gift Guide (2019)
emotional wellness gift Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth… Buddha Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we’re inundated with urgent messages of scarcity and time pressure. But ...
Fall, Gratitude, Holidays, Mindfulness, Seasonal
How To Practice Gratitude When You’re Not Feeling Grateful
gratitude Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie As we look around this week, the signs of Thanksgiving are ...
Emotional Wellness, Holidays, Seasonal, Winter
5 (More) Tips to Help You Prepare for the Holidays
prepare for the holidays As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who ...
Gratitude, Seasonal, Self-Care, Winter
Self-Compassion: 4 Ways to Start Practicing It Today
self-compassion If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. Jack Kornfield Self-love may seem an essential component of emotional wellness. After all, if we can’t love ourselves, how can ...
Back to School, Fall, Parenting, Seasonal
Back to School Anxiety: 6 Strategies for Parents
Your job isn’t to make things perfect… we are not here to protect them from reality but to support them as they actually face it. Mary Anne Ware Maybe it’s ...
Back to School, Fall, Parenting, Seasonal
Back to School: 7 Simple Ways to Ease the Transition
{ Back-to-school transition } Usually the things we think we need become the very things we need a break from. Jen Hatmaker The air is crisping up. The Halloween merchandise ...
The Summer Blues: 5 Signs You Might Be Experiencing It
{ summer blues } …the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. Sylvia Plath The sun’s out. The birds are singing. ...
Summer Break: 9 Tips for Transitioning with Ease
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was ...
Holidays, Parenting, Relationships, Spring
Mother or Not, This Is Our Wish for You
The past several weeks have ushered in Mother’s Day, Stepmother’s Day, Infertility Awareness Week, and Mental Health Awareness Month. And we know that with these public acknowledgements come a wide ...
Seasonal Affective Disorder: 5 Signs That May Surprise You
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley The snow shows no sign of melting. Summer feels like a distant memory. You’re pacing your house ...
Habits & Goals, Healthy Boundaries, Holidays, Seasonal, Winter
10 Things to Let Go Of this Year
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Havelock Ellis It’s the last day of the year. You know what the means… ...
Grief & Loss, Holidays, Seasonal, Self-Care, Winter
When the Holidays Are a Struggle
Expectations are high this time of year. What you should do. Where you should be. How you should act. How you should feel. It’s enough to cause stress for even ...
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 ...
Healthy Boundaries, Holidays, Seasonal, Winter
10 (More) Ways to Say No (with Kindness)
When you say “Yes” to others, make sure you are not saying “No” to yourself. Paulo Coehlo When it comes time to say No to someone or something, many of ...
7 Tips to an Emotionally Well Holiday Season
As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, ...
Fall, Holidays, Seasonal, Self-Care
Self-Care for Kids: Helping Kids Learn to Treat Themselves
When little people are overwhelmed by big emotions, it’s our job to share our calm, not join their chaos. L.R. Knost This week, the kids in your life likely have ...
Back to School, Fall, Relationships, Seasonal
Do You Work with Students? Commit to 3 Things This Year
I am enough of a realist to understand that I can’t reach every child, but I am more of an optimist to get up every morning and try. Preston Morgan ...
Back to School, Fall, Seasonal, Self-Care
Heading to College? 3 Pieces of Advice
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. Frederick Buechner Dorm supplies have been purchased. Good-byes have been said. Dr. Seuss has been quoted (and ...
Back to School, Fall, Relationships, Seasonal
Back to School: 3 Keys to Preparing as a Family
You know the signs. The weather is changing. The email communication has begun. Unless you’ve been spending the summer unplugged on an uncharted island somewhere (in which case, good for you), ...
Habits & Goals, Healthy Boundaries, Seasonal, Self-Care, Summer
How to Enjoy a Holiday Weekend without Sabotaging Your Routine
Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns. Marty Rubin For many of us, this weekend kicks off a cherished hallmark of summer: The holiday weekend. Be it rest and relaxation ...
Holidays, Relationships, Seasonal, Spring
After Mother’s Day: 5 Things You May Be Feeling
What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me. Janet Mock This weekend, you likely celebrated ...
Depression, Gratitude, Relationships, Seasonal, Winter
Cabin Fever: A Survival Guide
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus Spring is here! …or so they say. The calendar says it’s April. Spring break ...
Gratitude, Healthy Boundaries, Relationships, Seasonal, Spring
Navigating Spring Break as a Family
Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. Gustav Mahler Spring break is here! You made it! So, ...
Habits & Goals, Healthy Boundaries, Relationships, Seasonal, Self-Care, 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 It’s about that time again… The clock has sprung forward. ...
Abuse and Trauma, Back to School, Relationships, Seasonal, Self-Care
3 Ways to Promote Emotional Wellness in Schools
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments — tenderness for what he is and respect for what he may become. Louis Pasteur Less than two months ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eating, Healthy Boundaries, Holidays, Seasonal, Winter
Holiday Eating & Boundaries
NOTE: This is Part 3 of our series on holiday boundary setting. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Does the thought of food and eating during the holiday season conjure ...
Healthy Boundaries, Holidays, Relationships, Seasonal, Winter
Saying No (with Kindness)
NOTE: This is Part 2 of our series on holiday boundary setting. Read Part 1 and Part 3. “No” is a complete sentence. Anne Lamott Setting boundaries around your time, resources, ...
Healthy Boundaries, Holidays, Seasonal, Winter
Holiday Boundary Setting: 3 Areas to Consider
NOTE: This is Part 1 of our series on holiday boundary setting. Read Part 2 and Part 3. You’re fighting through traffic when the phone rings… It’s your neighbor, inviting you ...
Fall, Holidays, Seasonal, Self-Care
The Trick is Treating Yourself to Self-Care
Self-care is never a selfish act. It is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can ...
Depression, Fall, Seasonal, Winter
Seasonal Depression Treatment
It’s that time again… The days are growing cooler. The leaves are falling. The pumpkin-spice-everything is all around. But you just feel blah. While many of us recognize the mild ...