Tag Archive for: life balance
Is your pace sustainable (+ 9 ways to say no)?
Life BalanceRecently while I was at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health leading a women's retreat, I met an executive who was the dean at a large medical school. She said they had just added a class on work-life balance and resiliency to their medical school curriculum. But she wonders if her young doctors in training will see the value of this course for their patients–and themselves– as they navigate their intense pace.
Is your pace sustainable?
Work Life Balance Recently while at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health leading a New Way of Being Women's Self-Renewal Retreat I met a woman who was the dean at a large medical school. She said they just added a class on Work-Life Balance & Resiliency…
Can you go with the flow?
Work Life Balance “Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”…
4 questions to help you release & let go of 2015
Life Balance It’s Saturday night in Austin, it’s raining and cold out and my son is away at a sleep-over. My husband and I are relaxing in front of the fireplace. In front of us: paper strips, a thin, blue marker, a metal pail and a lighter. No, we’re…
Rituals: why I love them & why they matter
Life Balance Life is not a thing to be managed but a mystery to be lived. Recently my extended family got into a bit of a heated mess around a long-time Christmas giving tradition and how best –or even why— we should carry it out. It really crystalized…
Is your pace sustainable?
Work Life Balance This past weekend at my Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health New Way of Being Women's Self-Renewal Retreat I met a woman who was the dean at a large medical school. She said they just added a class on Self-Care & Resiliency to their…
Are You Stingy with Your Love?
Self-Care This Saturday is the 13 year anniversary of my mom’s passing. Healthy and active, she died at age 60 from congestive heart failure as a result of a sudden, serious case of the flu. She’s been on my mind a lot lately. Last Wednesday I…
What Are Weekends For?
Self-Care For the last few months I’ve been working a lot (read more). Often this has involved working straight through the weekend in order to meet key deadlines related to my book launch. If you know me, you'll vouch that this isn’t my norm.…
Bring on the Magic!!
Mindfulness Every year in January since I was about 30, I have created a vision board--basically a visual snapshot of what you want to experience in your life (athletes and top entertainers do this all the time to help them focus on and meet their goals).…
People First, Things Second
Life Balance As a life balance teacher, I'm always questioning how I can help myself and others come into greater equilibrium--not just around work and life, but around feeling and thinking, being and doing, and giving and receiving. Yesterday morning…
Sustainability … for Self
Self-Care The next twelve months will be a time of incredible growth and expansion for me--personally and professionally. And sensing this, over the weekend, I woke up Sunday morning feeling stress and anxiety course through my body as I anticipated…
Is Facebook Changing Who You Are?
Self-Care Last Saturday, after an early morning family walk and outing, I came home, showered, put away the groceries and posted the following on my personal Facebook page: "Early morning family hike around east Town Lake Trail (beautiful rowing on…