It’s the holiday season again! Instead of writing about how to decrease your shopping stress, I want to address another kind of stress – holding grudges. The holidays as well as the New Year are the perfect time to think about how grudges may affect your stress level and your life […]

Are there things in your life that you find frustrating? Do you ask yourself, “How does this keep happening to me?!” Or, “Why do I keep ending up in these situations?” Well, my dear reader, it is likely you are in possession of a rock!  One day my son came […]

You may have heard of Life Coaching.  Basically, life coaches are people who help you solve problems. It is different from therapy – no need to gently lead you to your moment of epiphany. Life coaches tend to tell it like it is, much like those athletic coaches we see […]

Last month we discussed this term, “gaslighting” that we are hearing more and more. This form of manipulation and control is essentially designed to have you questioning and doubting yourself. The person doing the gaslighting is typically very bright and lures you in with “love bombing” (tons of compliments, wanting […]

I’ve been hearing the term “gaslighting” being thrown around a lot lately, have you? It appears to have secured a foothold in our vernacular, so I thought maybe we should explore it a bit. Gaslighting is a form of manipulation and psychological control. The gaslighter feeds the victim false information […]

Uh-oh. Big mistake. Really big mistake. And at work, of all places! Now what? Do you try to hide it and hope no one discovers it? Do you deny it if you are confronted? Aauugghh! Panic mode engaged!! Remember that time your co-worker accidentally sent out that salary information to […]

Ever wonder how much your childhood affects your present life? Actually, quite a bit. The way we are raised colors our world view and the way we approach life. Those who are nurtured, protected, encouraged and guided tend to have a much different experience from those who are abused, neglected […]

When I am doing workshops on resilience, I often use a rubber band as a prop. Resilience is all about being stretched with challenges, then returning to our original state. Just like rubber bands. I hold up really thin and really thick rubber bands. I ask, “Which rubber band will […]

I’m sure our personal resiliency is something we have all questioned over the past two years, thanks to COVID-19 and hurricanes. I am on the seminar circuit once again, and it feels wonderful yet so foreign to me. We were talking about it last week at the office. It’s been […]