What we focus on really does create our experiences.  Do you still see the barren trees and branches on your lawn or are you beginning to see the buds and flowers emerging? Our experience of the world is heavily influenced by where we place our attention. As health care providers, so often, we’re caught up…

How is your day going?  Sometimes by mid-morning chiropractors, MDs and other health care professionals are dragging.   A variety of demands for your attention, phone calls from patients and insurance companies, tracking down lab results, dealing with staff and patients who are complaining. After all, do you set up the documentation around the “chief complaint?”…

Perspective/Cognitive Restructuring/Reframing are related tools we can all use to see things in a new light. What do I mean by these phrases? How we look at various situations, people and experiences.  My computer dictionary defined perspective as “(noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. ‘consider what follows from the positivist view’” So,…

I feel like I’m being liberated.  Over the past several years I’ve had to admit a dirty little secret to myself.  I’m a bit of a perfectionist. As a high achiever and someone with high standards, I had a tacit belief that things would always fall into place. I didn’t realize I was a perfectionist. I’m…

It may not be all you need at this point, however the quality of our relationships is the single biggest predictor of happiness and well-being. How’s your love life? Are you spending so many hours caring for others that you have too little time for those you love? Are you putting forth so much energy…

There are things we know but don’t articulate well.  Tal Ben-Shahar has written clearly about the power of gratitude especially when it is articulated and expressed. Here is what he wrote in Being Happy, “The word appreciate has two meanings.  The first meaning is “to be thankful,” the opposite of taking something for granted. The…