stress management

Feeling uneasy? 6 ways to find your way home

I've been traveling and speaking a lot over the past six weeks about stress management. As I move through airports, workshops, community centers, companies and conferences, I’ve noticed a buzzy, low-grade anxiety and palpable stress in…
WOMEN'S RETREAT

8 women’s wisdom: pearls from Kripalu

I’ve been leading women's retreats for 25 years and every single time I'm humbled and amazed by how much I learn and am reminded of by the beautiful women who show up in our circle. (Read why I lead retreats.) This past weekend I was…
self-care

Are you abandoning yourself?

Have you ever experienced a time when you were wronged or mistreated and didn't stand up for yourself? In my late twenties I worked at a large international biotech company as a communications specialist. My counterparts in our Paris…
career coaching; 9 ways to own your power

9 ways to reclaim your power

Alicia, one of our career coaching clients, had a rough week. After she received a disconcerting email from a new business partner, it became clear they were not on the same page. Alicia paused and decided to stop the email tennis match,…
life-balance

Are you over-managing your life?

"Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on." ― Eckhart Tolle,  A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose A few years ago I got really tired of  juggling and always trying to anticipate/manage…
self-care

Crazy-busy? Try incremental self-care

Last week I was visiting with my brother, a management consultant. He just started a new position based in another state, he has a toddler and a blended family, he travels for work and he’s working in an uber-fast-paced industry. We talked…
self-care rowboat

What determines YOUR happiness?

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Last week my teen son and I were getting along smashingly. He was affectionate,…

Beware of a sense of urgency

When I was thirty and working as a media relations director, my therapist -- a wise soul who coached me on stress management and how to understand the connection between my thoughts and my mood-- stopped me dead in my tracks one day with…
seeking life balance

Why being out of balance can be a good thing

This week I'm observing my 14 year-old ninth grader attempt to navigate increased academic, sports, extracurricular and social demands (and doing all I can to stay hands-off), and I'm reminded of a time in my late twenties when the idea…
stress management tools

6 things to do when life feels tough

I was visiting with a dear friend this past weekend who shared she’s battling depression. “It comes and it goes. But when it returns, I often freeze and forget what helps me most; all my great self-care practices fly right out the window,”…

3 (surprising) reasons I keep doing yoga

This weekend I was on the massage table when out of the blue my therapist asked, "What do you do to heal when someone close to you dies?" I thought for a moment--having experienced a lot of loss in my family--and answered, "I do yoga." I…
stress management

7 back-to-school strategies to promote less stress & more flow

It’s 1976. I’m in fifth grade and standing by our front door with my red plaid backpack. My eyes scanning, I watch my four younger brothers dart from room to room. My stomach is in knots. It’s 7:45 a.m. We should have left fifteen…
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