Amor fati. Love your fate. I didn’t want to hustle to the mall right after my final team building/ emotional intelligence workshop ended, to get my daughter to her skating lesson and tackle school supply shopping at target. And when the figuring skating daughter wasn’t ready to go right away, I felt myself rise to […]
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A serving of humble pie I got served some humble pie today.I am guilty of having done some armchair quarterbacking this weekend while watching a UFC on TV. The fighter was signaling his punches and I commented that if you are at his level you shouldn’t be making a mistake like that. Bill reminded me
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Responding with facts versus judgements I am a mom first which is why tonight’s post is late.And this photo isn’t staged, it is a behind the scenes look at how I use what I teach everyday.The disadvantage of having me as their mom is that my girls have to deal with lessons on philosophy, mindfulness,
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Discovering new insight There are so many things that I truly love about working with healthcare teams from nurses to doctors to students and all the amazing people in between.Teaching mindful leadership, emotional intelligence, and addressing burnout and workplace culture issues across all disciplines has become a true passion and purpose of mine.That all being
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Meet comparison with curiosity Dear Parents, The start of a new school year brings plenty of new opportunities including those for comparison. Comparison holds one hostage to living a life that isn’t their own. Success becomes an illusion, never a reality. And happiness disappears behind the next person you decide is ahead of you. Students
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Focus on love and not comparison It’s so easy to compare how we parent and raise families to others. To question if we are doing it right. To feel guilty for not doing Disney, camping trips, weekend getaways, massive road trips or European adventures.You can be inspired by others to try new things as a
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Actions vs. the outcome Last night I came across a photo of myself from my junior year of college.I looked at my 20 year old self and shook my head- the girl in the photo had no idea that in 2 years she’d be pregnant, moving back home as a single mom and being diagnosed
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What is the story we are being told? Over 2,000 years ago Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, commented on the human tendency to speak more than listen.“We have two ears and one mouth, therefore we should listen twice as much as we speak.”We react to the story we tell ourselves, not respond to the story
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Don’t smell, inhale! In the mornings I refuse to stop and smell the flowers.I stop and inhale until it suctions around my nose like a bear hug.Noticing the beauty of flowers is great.Smelling the flowers – awesome.Going nose to petal? That’s living.I have one tattoo.Well technically, 2, tattoo #1 is covered up by tattoo #2.
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“What the heck are we doing?!” Have you had this happen?When you do something purely on instinct and then your rational/logical brain catches up and yells at you “WHAT THE HECK ARE WE DOING?? ”.Someone captured that very moment a few weeks ago while I was speaking at a conference in Cleveland. And because vulnerability
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