Start the New Year with Your Plan for Well-Being, 4 phone coaching sessions As you think ahead to 2019, what would you like your life to be like? If you want to live with more energy and ease while increasing your impact, Your Plan for Well-Being can set you on the right path. What changes will…
What is the Most Powerful Well-Being practice? Thanks-giving
Expressing gratitude is one of the most powerful well-being practices. Invoking gratitude throughout the day has had a huge impact on my well-being and is one of my favorite tools. Gratitude Research has found that when we express gratitude we experience an uplift in our emotions and attitudes. What do you appreciate right now? Paying attention to…
To Dream the [im]Possible Dream
Given the reality of healthcare, thinking about ease and pleasure at work, seems like the impossible dream. All the various demands, the feelings of you’ve got to do it on your own and the unending documentation and regulations limit your vision of what is possible. Recently, I saw Man of LaMancha, a beautiful, sad and…
Insights from a Camp Nurse
Have you ever wondered how to balance teamwork with individual boundaries? I spent the last two plus weeks working as a nurse at an overnight camp that my children used to attend. I’ve been doing this for close to 10 years. This year I was more aware of the balancing act that sometimes needs to…
Spring, Time to Renew Your Well-Being
Rebirth, Refresh and Reawaken, spring is associated with these. It’s a time to renew your well-being too. The spring holidays, while making things more hectic, also offer an opportunity to pause and reflect. In healthcare, you may not be noticing much change in your daily experience; the patients keep coming in, at least there are…
Achieving what you want in 2018
We’re in the 3rd week of 2018 now, how are you doing on achieving your goals and resolutions? This is a revealing week as far as our own “stick to it-iveness.” Now that you’re back in a routine, you may be feeling too tired to muster the energy to work on the goal or perhaps…