How to Cope After Delivering a Life-Altering Diagnosis

A dreadful diagnosis directly impacts the person delivering the news and the person receiving it. The feeling of sorrow when you have to deliver a life-altering diagnosis, from terminal illness to chronic condition, can be overwhelming, and it never gets any easier. Delivering a life-altering diagnosis will affect the mental health and overall well-being of […]

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How to Cope After Receiving a Life-altering Diagnosis

No one is ever truly ready for a life-altering diagnosis. When you receive news from your doctor of a life-threatening disease or chronic illness, your identity and self-perception may shatter.  This is one of the hardest things you’ve ever experienced. I want to let you know that you are not alone. Many of my clients

Quiet Quitting in Healthcare

In healthcare, while we focus on patients, we should not forget to care for ourselves. The burnout rates among healthcare workers, are, in fact, some of the highest in the country. The responsibility for managing the consequences of burnout ultimately falls on the shoulders of the already burdened remaining staff. This may explain the worrisome

Finding Comfort in Discomfort

Discomfort can feel threatening. We naturally prefer experiences that bring us joy and a sense of peace. Why, then, would we intentionally enter a situation that we know will be tough? Accepting challenges that intimidate us can strengthen us and help us.  Today, I’m sharing how to find comfort inside discomfort and why this could be one

Seclusion: The Good and the Bad for Self-Improvement

Seeking a safe, calm space where you can be alone with your thoughts, away from the distractions and noise of daily life, can be both enriching and rewarding.  You can learn to look inward and rediscover what truly sparks your creativity and makes you feel alive. As a result, you’ll feel recharged and ready to

How Small Actions Can Lead to Life-Long Habits

We live in a world that glorifies instant gratification. Living in the Digital Age, we’ve grown accustomed to seeking short-term satisfaction through likes, reels, and next-day deliveries. We want it all, and we want it now. That’s why the idea of slow, deliberate progress might not seem that exciting. However, something remarkable and transformative happens

The Secret to Feeling Recharged

According to one study, more than 60% of Americans rarely feel rested and energized when they wake up. Our ‘always-on’ culture glamorizes working to the brink of exhaustion and glorifies those who can push through even when their bodies are begging them to stop. Even if you get the recommended seven hours of sleep each

Self-Care – Put Your Oxygen Mask on First

With each new bubble bath or skincare product designed to help you indulge in “me time,” self-care has become a mantra in the health and wellness industry. While cosmetics can be part of your self-care routine, self-care means recognizing and nurturing your personal needs in your daily life. Being attuned to your voice is the

Resilience – Learning to Cope with Setbacks

What do you do when things don’t go your way? Many of us let emotions paralyze us. Resilience helps us to overcome the setback and move on. Let’s go over some of the best strategies for developing greater resilience in your life. What is Resilience? Resilience is the ability to productively adapt to challenging circumstances.

Develop your Relationships.

Despite the transactional nature permeating many of the actions of our daily lives, the reality is that relationships affect the quality of our lives, professional and personal. Often people make superficial connections, investing just enough time and energy into them to keep them alive, and not developing them to their full potential. What if you

Internalizing External Events

In our day to day lives, events are constantly occurring around us. Even if we were to stand completely still and do absolutely nothing all day long, the world around us would continue moving, and events would continue to occur. These external events typically have nothing to do with things that we have said or

The Importance of Apologizing – and Meaning It

“I’m sorry”. It’s a phrase that is difficult for some to utter. It is also a phrase thrown around often by others, sometimes without any meaning behind it. You may say that you’re sorry as a habit when you’ve made someone feel a negative emotion.  From a very young age, we were taught that ‘sorry” is