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I hear it all time. My manager is incompetent. My co-worker is a slacker. My boss is a micro-manager. I don’t get paid what I am worth. My inbox is overflowing. I am stressed to the max. In other words, one way or the other, work is making me miserable. Back in my 20’s I worked for […]

It’s the end of a long day at the office. A colleague asks if you want to grab a beer. When you left the house this morning you planned to go to the gym on the way home. You are trying to keep  the momentum going on your new exercise program. But before you know it, you […]

High Low Glitter, as most of my readers and clients know, is a reflective practice I created as a dinnertime game when my children were little. Over the last several years, I have started using High Low Glitter with clients as a way to create a reflective pause and synthesize an experience. Below is my […]

I recently rented a car with a foot pedal parking brake. This would hardly matter but for the fact that I rented the car in San Francisco. And in San Francisco you use your parking brake. After eight days of stomping that brake on and off, I returned to relatively flat Minnesota. Once home, I […]

Looking for something more substantial than flowers and chocolates this Valentines’s Day? What about better communication? These 3 reminders from Gary Chapman’s book The 5 Love Languages can help improve communication with all your relationships. Become metaphorically multilingual*: If we speak only our primary language and encounter someone else who speaks only his or her primary language, which is different […]

Below are a handful of ideas I found share-worthy from psychotherapist Richard O’Connor’s book Rewire: Changing Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior. I share his words in hopes of increasing awareness, inspiring consideration and impacting my readers efforts to create meaningful, lasting change: How are your emotions impacting your life? Emotions are hardwired, instinctual […]