September is recognized as National Suicide Prevention Month. September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day. Why are we discussing suicide prevention? Every 40 seconds someone dies by suicide and one in four adults know or care about someone who attempted or died by gun suicide. I don’t know if there are any accurate overdose statistics […]
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Embracing And Savoring The Small Joys
As summer quickly slips through our fingers, it feels like the season has raced by in a blur of sunshine and fleeting moments. Just yesterday, we were basking in the anticipation of long, sunny days and vibrant evenings, and now, the first hints of autumn are creeping in. The rapid passage of summer often leaves […]
Read moreCollective Trauma and the Residual Effects From COVID
Now that COVID-19 restrictions have lifted and we have transitioned back to the workplace full time, we should feel like life is back to normal as it was pre-COVID. Unfortunately, that is not the case for most of us. For many the interruption of the pandemic has fundamentally altered numerous aspects of our lives and […]
Read moreRe-Entry Anxiety: Post-Pandemic Struggle For Many
Re-entry anxiety is a symptom we are either experiencing or hearing about from others as we begin our transition back to our workplaces full-time. Two years ago we were longing to get back to normal and the lives were we accustomed to. But now as things start getting back to our pre-pandemic lives, many of […]
Read moreHappy 2022? More So, Goodbye COVID 2021
As we enter the new year 2022 I reflect on the strange and monumental events that COVID-19 has bestowed upon the world in 2021. I highlighted most of them in my book, Our Breaking Point, How COVID Has Us Exhausted, Irritable and Overwhelmed. I think we can all agree 2021 started off with a […]
Read moreLiving In A Pandemic: The New Normal
It’s been almost two years since we were introduced to COVID-19. I think I’m finally self-regulating in a world that is still experiencing daily upheaval – the new normal. The transition wasn’t a smooth one, not for me anyway. Our lives changed dramatically and rapidly and it took a while to orientate myself through the […]
Read moreRising up From the Darkness: How I Found Success in the Least Expected Places
Success: A Broken Definition We’re used to tagging people as “successful” if they meet certain socially acceptable criteria: the nice clothes, the shiny cars, and the big houses (usually located in places so far out of reach we can’t even mentally place them on a map). The [sad] fact of the matter is that success […]
Read moreStill Going at 50 With Best Yet to Come
In a little over two weeks I will be 50. I’ve already started saying I’m 50 a couple months ago because when it comes to the actual day, the hope is I will embrace the fact that I am half a century old. Crazy how fast that happened! It […]
Read moreWhat A World Disaster Taught Me: Lessons of 2020
2020 was an incredibly trying year. For most of us it was our first pandemic. It came hard and fast with decisions having to be made quickly about our allowed daily activities and how we would be operating as a society. We were thrust into adapting in a constantly changing environment. It was a […]
Read moreFighting Cancer During a World Crisis
The year 2020 started off with a… Well, actually it was two weeks before the New Year’s Eve fireworks, a precursor of what was to come. Like that feeling when you are looking at the toilet and the water is starting to bubble up instead of going down and you have no plunger. Like that […]
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