We’ve been asked to make many significant sacrifices to protect ourselves and others from coronavirus. One of the greatest has been giving up our interactions and ability to socialize with each other in person on a daily or at least regular basis. I’m deeply concerned about the short- and long-term impacts of this isolation on… Continue reading COVID-19: The Risks of Loneliness and Isolation
Category: Women and Wellness
Staying Healthy in a COVID-19 World: Getting Through Times of Fear and Uncertainty
We are all reeling from a week in which our world changed dramatically and so rapidly that we are struggling to keep up and to understand what it all means and how we should respond. This situation demands that we attend more than ever to our mental health and well-being. I offer the following in… Continue reading Staying Healthy in a COVID-19 World: Getting Through Times of Fear and Uncertainty
Start a New Year’s Resolution Revolution: Creating a Healthy Mindset
Many of us make “New Year’s Resolutions” each year yet few of us successfully keep them. It is estimated that 92% of those who make resolutions actually keep them. If so many of us fail, why do we persist each year? Resolutions are such a tempting idea because they allow us to overindulge in food… Continue reading Start a New Year’s Resolution Revolution: Creating a Healthy Mindset
The Power of Acceptance or Why I Gave Up Shoulding On Myself
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” Carl Rogers How many times have you told yourself you shouldn’t? You shouldn’t have done that, eaten that, be feeling that, or have been that. This is “shoulding” on yourself, a term first coined by Albert Ellis. You… Continue reading The Power of Acceptance or Why I Gave Up Shoulding On Myself
Eat Like You Mean It! The Secret to Using Food to Enhance Your Health
I’d like to share with you a powerful skill that will impact your health and well-being virtually the moment you begin using it. It will cost you nothing but your time, attention, and patience. I know, that last one can be a real challenge! But as with all things, practice is the key to developing… Continue reading Eat Like You Mean It! The Secret to Using Food to Enhance Your Health
Learning to Love Yourself
Valentine’s Day (or “single-awareness day” as my clever sister used to joke) is a time when the concept of love is on everybody’s mind, single or coupled. This over-focus on romantic love can lead us to overlook the most important form of love: self-love. Perhaps you have heard that we can only love others as… Continue reading Learning to Love Yourself
Sustaining Motivation: How to Persist When You Feel Like Giving Up
Something many of my clients struggle with is sustaining the motivation they need to make the changes they want to make in their lives. It happens to all of us more often than we’d like. We embark on a new self-improvement program with all the best intentions to change. Perhaps it’s a sincere effort to… Continue reading Sustaining Motivation: How to Persist When You Feel Like Giving Up
Women and Wellness: Your Beauty and Worth Cannot be Measured
Summer time. A time for slowing down a bit, relaxing a bit, enjoying the pool or beach… Did your anxiety jump a bit at the thought of being seen in a swim suit? If so, you’re not alone. While body image concerns plague both men and women, a whopping 80% of women are dissatisfied with… Continue reading Women and Wellness: Your Beauty and Worth Cannot be Measured
Women and Wellness: Developing Self-Compassion
What comes to mind when you think of this word: Compassion? How about this one: Self-compassion? If you’re like most women, you have a different emotional response to each word with a distinctly more negative response to the second. Perhaps we mistakenly equate self-compassion with selfishness, a trait strictly forbidden to women. Most of us… Continue reading Women and Wellness: Developing Self-Compassion