If you’re like me, you’ve been socially conditioned to despise a timer since childhood. I was a speech therapy-going little girl squirming (or more like “squiwming”) at my wobbly wooden desk in Myles elementary school as the clock seemed to fly into warped speed as I refocused my restless mind with all my might remembering…
There’s such an obvious tendency to fall victim to the winter blahs. The gray, the cold, and the dark can make us feel like our environment is playing mind games on us.Not cool, Mother Nature. Not cool at all. And, not so fast. Even if you’re not chomping at the bit to throw on a…
Remember when you were a kid and eyeing a freshly opened cardboard box had you panting with anticipation? Not for what was inside but the box itself – pure gold. The possibilities were endless. A classic, four-sided adventure, welcoming us with flaps open wide waiting for us to have at it. Funny how as we…
There are a lot of positive and uplifting posts and sentiments out there right now. And, they’re needed. Absolutely. It’s the ultimate joy of the holiday season…right? We’ve been dealing with a pandemic for what seems like a lifetime. We should have a better handle on it by now…shouldn’t we? Not so fast. The problem…
Camped out in your head? I’m right there with you. Reminding ourselves what’s in our control and what’s not is the fastest way to feel a sense of relief and space inside and out. This exercise helps bring you back and takes two minutes. 1. Grab a piece of paper and a pen or pencil.2.…
It’s easy to fly through our days in a mental fog. There’s so much going on in our immediate environment, COVID, or not. Throw in a global pandemic, and it’s even easier to be camped out in our heads roasting imaginary S’ mores by the mental fire without even realizing it. I find that having…
I recently attended a weekend-long seminar and each day was ten hours and filled to the brim with information, exercises, and an incredible amount of will power to shut up my ranting ego of “Been there done that.” The irony is that I spent a good part of the first day doing exactly what we…
For my birthday this past November, I was gifted one of the best experiences of my life by my parents – other than the gift of life by my parents. I took part in Committed Impulse, a weekend-long intensive performance workshop in NYC that had the overall goal of helping actors, entrepreneurs, and public speakers,…
Trivia time! How much of our brain activity (decisions, emotions, actions, and behaviors) is conscious? I’m on a mission of taking back control of my mind. Whether it’s Mel Robbins asking the question of: Do you own your phone or does your phone own you? or Deepak Chopra reminding me that We are the thinker…
“How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard, author Wow. It’s been one heck of a week. We can get so swept up in the vicious news cycle or the emotional chaos that the holidays often bring that we often forget to pay attention to all the…