Holiday Stress to a Calm and Merry Christmas!
The Ho-Ho-Ho fun of a Merry Christmas can become stressful. If we are not careful, we can end up in a frenzy. Here’s how to keep calm and merry on!
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Women Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace
Let us start with, What is conflict? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines conflict as mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands. Sometimes that mental struggle can manifest into a physical form ranging from domestic abuse to war. Regrettably, much of it starts for women as conflict in the workplace. […]
Dozens of Famous and Powerful Resilience Quotes
We love quotations as they are like nuggets of gold; pure thoughts that can improve our thinking, self-perception, and worldview. Enjoy these resilience quotes.
Getting Past Your Past by Francine Shapiro
Book Summary of Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR, Have you heard of the break-through therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization, and Reprocessing (EMDR)? American psychologist and educator, Francine Shapiro developed it in the early 1990s. In 2012 Shapiro released a self-help book to help the public access her […]
Smile and the World Smiles With You. Frown and Get Sick
When you smile, you appear to be more likable and competent.
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene’ Brown – Book Summary
Here is a book summary of The Gifts of Imperfection. Yes, another summary of a book by Brene´Brown. She did it again! She opened my eyes and mind to some new ways of being. Her research into vulnerability, shame and enoughness continue to impress me. Her long title, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of […]
Crying at Work and What to Do About It
Tears, along with perspiration, urine, and exhalation rid our bodies of toxins and other waste.
Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms . . .
May you enjoy this book summary of Rising Strong. When shame and vulnerability researcher, Brene’ Brown takes on a subject she delves into the questions, facts, data, and outcomes. She also becomes intimate with it. She takes her own reactions, takes them home, observes herself, dialogues with the locals, and participates in counselling with her […]
So! You Want to Find True Happiness!
Resilient people know that you can not feel happy all the time. Feeling happy is but one emotion that comes and goes. Feeling happy gives us the information, in that moment, we have what we want.
Good Parenting and Communication Prevents Peas Up Their Noses
Do you remember a television show called Kids Say the Darndest Things? It aired from 1998 to 2000. Well, I propose that often times parents say the darndest things. I used to say them myself until I learned to improve my communication skills. Good parenting starts with awareness and then choosing better. Here we will […]
Daring Greatly by Brene’ Brown – Book Summary
In 2012 the shame researcher, Brene´ Brown published Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. I have watched Brown’s interviews with Oprah, her popular TEDTalks, and insightful animations. Her style is down-home, intelligent, compassionate, and deeply personal. Those who can not tolerate seeing others full […]
How Emotional Coaching can Fix Your Relationship
Years ago my father did not speak to me for six months. When our oldest daughter, Kelly was in jail (see the book, Love Her As She Is) she asked for bail money. After we said no, she did not speak to us for many months. When our youngest daughter told us about her diagnosis […]