Scrolling my social media feeds last week, I initially felt inspired by the grit and enthusiasm displayed by so many people living in Covid-19 lockdown. We, as a human community, were making the most of our situation. Though dire circumstances confined us to our...
I thought I had a pretty balanced, grounded, present life. Turns out, I was wrong. This past summer, I had been enjoying an unusual lull in my professional activities. I’d taken time off from my part-time medical clinic work to work on a new book project, and also had...
How do you know if you’re truly helping someone, rather than “enabling” them? Many of us (myself included) think we are helping when we’re actually enabling. Enabling in this context, though the word itself might sound good, means that the things we...
As a coach I work with a variety of leaders (from mid-level managers to high-ranking executives), helping them to reduce their stress, recover from burnout, improve work-life balance and operate more effectively. Time after time, after I do a little digging, a core...
So, you want to help someone change a problem behavior. I’m talking about all kinds of behaviors here. This could be the loved one who keeps smoking, or eats more than is healthy for them, or drinks too much, or keeps spending more than they earn. Perhaps they...
I’ve spoken to corporations about the importance of self-care and burnout prevention for years, and have followed leadership expert Michael Hyatt for years. The two worlds collided recently when I listened to his podcast version of Self-Care as a Leadership...
