I’ll be talking with Dahlia Kurtz about emotional eating tomorrow on CJOB in the afternoon. A great topic…something that affects so very many of us. I’m not sure we get a lot of folks coming to the counselling office saying, “Help me, I eat too much”…but we get a ton of folks that are struggling …
Hump Day Nudge: New Life
I’m a mush-ball when it comes to babies. Babies of all kinds. So when I saw this clip of all these little turtles being born, I just gazed in fascination. How did they all know which direction to go? How, after being in eggs independently, were they ready to hatch within just minutes of each …
A letter to the man on the bridge
And so, man-on-the bridge, I’ve been thinking about you for days. Hoping that if you were contemplating if life was worth living, that someone acted on their courage and let you know that they noticed you, and that you mattered.
Hump Day Nudge: Step away from those screens
This is cute, in a “ohmigosh, I hope that’s not me, but it hits too close to home” kinda way: I was prepping last night for an interview with Dahlia Kurtz. It was this afternoon on CJOB on her new afternoon show that started just yesterday. The topic was boredom at work and how boredom …
Anchoring in Terror
She doesn’t know it, but Antoinette Tuff was my teacher today. This video is worth 16 minutes of your life. Antoinette prevented a massive, highly dangerous man from another epic disastrously awful school shooting in Georgia yesterday. Not by pinning the man down, or calling the police, or shooting him. She cared for …
Oprah and Brené…and me!
I come from steady, stable, secure stock. My parents both worked hard within the same organization their entire careers. We lived in only two houses when I was growing up. They looked–twice (very carefuly)–before they leaped. I was taught to always pay one’s credit card bill at month’s end, never spend what you didn’t have, …
Walking on new patterns
I love walking…this time of year has me outside any day that’s not raining. There’s something about walking that creates space for new thought…quiet spaces seem somehow different in a way that’s hard to explain. Walking feels good…and after, knowing that there has been a healthy long walk, it feels great. Walking forward creates movement …
Back’atcha
So, last fall, I had a friend that life had burned badly…a nasty divorce, a bad job situation, heartbreak with her children…I could go on. She lives out of province, and I cared, but living so far away it was hard to know what to do. She and I have been close: we share quotes …
Hump Day Nudge: Sticking Together–Literally
There is very little that is of more value in this world than friends. Folks who don’t have to be with you, like family does. Folks who choose to be with you… …even after, and sometimes especially after, they get to know you. Folks who love you enough to: laugh with you until milk …
Everybody’s got stuff
Melanie, our office administrator/client care manager is fond of the line: “Everybody’s got stuff”. She uses it to remind us to have compassion with folks that rub us the wrong way, like suppliers who are late, or someone who has cut us off in traffic. Recently, a company that owns computer system we use, stopped …