Category: Workplace Wellness
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Why Workplace Mental Health Matters More Than Ever
The workday rarely slows down and the busy pace we so often keep brings stress. Sometimes, if this stress builds up enough it can severely affect our overall well-being. For professionals who care about mental health (whether it’s for themselves or their teams) having strong mental wellness practices in place can make all the difference. …
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Why Breaks Boost Productivity
Picture this: it’s 3pm and you’re starting to feel the afternoon brain fog drift in while scrolling through your inbox. What do you do? Do you push through it hoping it will go away and you’ll be struck by a miracle second wind? Do you grab another cup of coffee from the machine? Do you…
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3 Ways to Foster Your Mental & Emotional Wellness
How are you? How are you really? Have you taken a sec to attune to yourself yet today? Take a deep breath, close your eyes if you’re comfortable, and check in with your thoughts, emotions and physical body: Where do you feel tension, sensation, heaviness, lightness? Are your thoughts calm or racing? What emotions are you…
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Life is not all about being productive (toxic productivity)
While I don’t claim to know what the meaning of life is, there is one thing I know for sure: Life is not all about being productive…(in the effortful sense of the word). After-all, it’s true that “productive” things can happen with little to no effort. Important things, like tiny seeds growing into towering oaks…
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Tools for Work/Life Balance
What are your thoughts on work/life balance? While I’m not one of those people who thinks the concept of balance is total garbage, I do acknowledge that it can be yet another unrealistic expectation we place on ourselves. As my college professor Dr Kricher taught, we can’t prescribe (or expect) balance to (of) any complex…
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Busy to Being 4: How to Have More Time and Energy for What Matters to You
Welcome back to Busy to Being! A weekly video series where I share teachings that I have been integrating for over 15 years across a variety of disciplines, including: yoga, health coaching, workplace wellness, mindfulness, personal growth, spirituality, shadow integration, and more. This series is sure to shape-shift and evolve as it moves through me and…
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Busy to Being 2: The Energetics of Busyness & Why Rushing Is Self-Perpetuating
Welcome to Busy to Being! A weekly video series where I share teachings that I have been integrating for over 15 years across a variety of disciplines, including: yoga, health coaching, workplace wellness, mindfulness, personal growth, spirituality, shadow integration, and more. This series is sure to shape-shift and evolve as it moves through me and…
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5 Ways to Create a Life You Don’t Need a Vacation From
Here are some of my favorite, year-round strategies for creating a life where we don’t just live for the weekends. The trick is to intentionally enrich each day with things, people and experiences that deeply nourish us so that we don’t fall into an all or nothing cycle, which I find to be depleting and…
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10 Tips for Cultivating & Protecting Your Mental & Emotional Health
1.Say NO Before agreeing to everything under the sun, check in with how you’re feeling. Allow yourself to say no when you instinctively know or feel you have too much on your plate. And if you accidentally over-extend yourself, it is OK to change your mind, re-schedule, delegate, or have a conversation about how you…
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How to Move Beyond Workplace Happy Hour for Engaged Employees
In today’s workforce, employers are challenged to generate profits while also creating a culture that attracts and retains talent. While productivity is an important measure of success, having an understanding and clear vision for employee engagement within your organization is crucial because of the significant impact engagement has on your bottom line. Gallup recently published…