Category: Self-Care

The other day a friend shared something that was so fun and creative, I just had to share. She took the concept of the vision board up a notch and created a vision BOX.

I wrote a lot in my journal about how I felt over Y”T and what helps me keep believing when I’m down.

I learned this idea in a recent training and thought it was helpful to think about. When confronted with a stressful situation, there are two categories of coping strategies, both of which can be helpful:

Recently, I read a fascinating article by Arthur C. Brooks in The Atlantic

I recently discovered Vanderhacks, the newsletter of writer Laura Vanderkam, on “little ways to take your day from great to awesome.”

As we acquire greater knowledge and understanding of life processes as a society, we learn about cause and effect relationships between various phenomena. With this knowledge, we start to understand various issues in terms of root causes that we can identify, address and remediate (i.e. a child’s behavior). This can be an empowering perspective and no doubt extremely useful. It …

The menstrual cycle, occurring over approximately 28 days, has four phases, characterized by the hormone levels driving the activity in each phase. The phases are: follicular, when ovarian follicles are maturing an egg for ovulation (high levels of estrogen, which helps prepare your uterine lining, and FSH, which stimulates the follicle); ovulation, when a surge of the hormone LH triggers …

Quick housekeeping note: if you are receiving this post to your inbox, I just want to let you know that I won’t be sending out emails for the foreseeable future because it has given me some tech issues — I realize that I never sent out an announcement about that so here it is a few weeks late! So sorry …