A band aid won’t fix this We are facing a healthcare crisis – losing nurses and doctors that are needed to keep our communities healthy.Too many organizations/hospitals don’t fund training or address, mindful leadership, emotional intelligence burnout and the impact it has on the mental health of physicians, nurses and staff and on the quality […]
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September is Suicide Prevention Month “Don’t be ashamed of needing help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up- so what?”—Marcus Aurelius, Meditation 7.7 The most powerful man in the world, the emperor of Rome at the
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Meeting Our Emotions With Curiosity I felt myself getting pissed off.Part of me wanted to take the anger and run with it.The Stoic in me won out.Not because it caused me to shove down my emotions. That’s not what Stoicism teaches.It won out because I got curious instead of angry.I called Finn over and told
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An Ode To My Father Always hug your dad. There was a stretch of time when I was a teen that I barely spoke to my dad. I wrote earlier this week about how much shame I felt when I got out of the hospital for anorexia. That silence and shame is what led to
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A Urgent Message to Coaches and Parents Dear Coaches and Parents,Your athletes, your children are hurting.Let’s start doing something about it now instead of waiting for the next headline of an athlete taking their life, and hoping it won’t be one of yours.Athletes are told over and over that they have to be mentally tough.To
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Fighting Shame Shame…we all deal with it- so let’s talk about it.There’s no shame in box cake.And for most of you reading this, that statement is a no brainer. But to some, getting caught baking from a box would cause shame to come running. Shame tells them that baking from a box you aren’t a
Take Time To Pause I used to struggle to pause.To temper the energizer bunny level drive.Today was the first really hot day of the year. Close to 90 degrees and sunny.I had been working on the new stone path leading up to the goat playground, grateful for my pick axe, mallet and shovel, pounding in
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On Pride Don’t let your pride keep you from doing what will make you proud. I posted asking for help today in my Facebook group for camp parents, leaning into vulnerability. I happened to look at my summer camp enrollment for the first time in months and was shocked by how many camps I still
Kindness is Never Insignificant Toddlers shouldn’t get cancer. Kids shouldn’t get cancer. Teens shouldn’t spend high school in the hospital. Mothers shouldn’t have to deal with cancer when pregnant or with young kids. But they do. And all the “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts” in the world won’t change reality. Tonight for a few hours a group
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Turning Obstacles into Opportunity What obstacle will you turn into an opportunity this week? Last summer we dug a moat in front of the house and laid all new tiling to solve the problem of water pressure from the thick clay pushing against the retaining wall along the path to BMK. For a week I
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