The first week of the New Year has always been a bit of a challenge for me. I’m psyched up for carrying out the strategic plan I built for my personal and professional life in early December, but my body, mind, and spirit are not quite on board yet! My body is trying to return to normal after a month of indulging in Christmas cookies for lunch and traditional, low-nutrition – but oh, so tasty! …
No doubt, 2020 has been a challenging year for everyone. Beyond the pandemic, the vitriolic presidential campaign on both sides, and the social unrest, my family and I went through a private matter that just may have been one of the hardest months of my life. The key word here, though, is through. My family went THROUGH a challenge and came out on the other side a stronger, more aligned, more in love family than …
Expressing our feelings is a key contributor to our (and our children’s) emotional, mental – even physical – health. If we don’t express our feelings, they tend to come out sideways later (sometimes decades later) in the form or resentment, rage, or disease. As one of my former clients said, “As an overachiever, I’d become really effective at suppressing my feelings. When unprocessed and unacknowledged, they would resurface unproductively in my life. One of the …
Exercise is, of course, essential for your health. And if you want to generate high performance results in your life, research shows you should take part in some form of exercise that you enjoy nearly every day. But exercise is not a substitute for meditation. Sure, you may feel similar after both exercising and meditating. Exercise helps close the stress response cycle, it stimulates feel-good hormones such as endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin, and it gives …
“You’re happier and nicer to me when we have sex,” I said to my husband this morning over coffee, a few minutes before we got our boys up for school. “What?!” he asked, starting to get defensive. “It’s not an accusation,” I replied neutrally. “It’s just an observation.” His energy softened. “Your love language is physical touch, then words of affirmation,” I said. “When there’s less sex going on between us, you and I are …