What Is Your Resilience Story? – The Secret Power of Stress PODCAST EPISODE 2
What is your resilience story? We all have challenges that shape our character and help us grow. The past few months have tested our resilience. I believe we are hardwired to not only recover from adversity, but also grow and transform. In this Podcast I talk about sharing your Resilience Story. I have completed Joel […]
Four Things That Make Everyone Feel Loved
Four Things That Make Everyone Feel Loved is such a wonderful thing to talk about right now! In a study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, researchers from Pennsylvania State University and the University of California, Irvine, asked 495 men and women in the US to complete an online survey that presented […]
Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
Can you feel the love tonight? The words of this song came to my mind as I was thinking about the term “social distancing”. I have never liked this term as I know the science of how social connections support wellness and how love and gratitude literally balance our nervous system. People and families already […]
Top 10 Easy Ways to Calm Stress
Top 10 easy ways to calm stress. What I have learned from all my years of training in medicine and nutrition is that learning ways to calm stress is the #1 health habit to practice. Stress itself is not bad. We need it to get going in our day and take action. It is the […]
How Healthy Do You Think You Are?
How healthy do you think you are? Studies show that people who rate their health positively are a step ahead of those who think they are unwell, even when results were adjusted for actual medical conditions. This factor is called “self-rated health,” (or SRH) . “During this pandemic, when we see the statistics and the […]
Navigating Difficult Emotions on My Birthday
Having a birthday during the pandemic triggered a lot of emotion for me. This was NOT what I was expecting on my birthday….. but none of what we are experiencing was expected! Somehow the “occasion” of celebrating a birthday unleashed emotions I had been storing. How are you doing with navigating your mental and emotional […]
How Can We Find Courage?
How can we find courage? What is courage? Courage is defined as “strength in the face of pain or grief”. At these very uncertain times, I seek ways to build courage and look to people in history that have turned from fear to faith. To me, Faith is hope, optimism and all the good that […]
Finding Gratitude, Hope and Love in a Time of Hardship – PODCAST
At a time of so much change in our world, it is normal to feel anxiety, fear, stress, depression. Today I focus on how to find gratitude, hope and love as we navigate this global pandemic together. Here are ten things I do to immediately SHIFT from fear to faith even in this time of […]
Calming the Corona Viral Panic – PODCAST PART 2
There is a viral panic that is shifting the way we live and the choices we make. On March 13, 2020, the President declared a national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic and public life in America is rapidly shifting with closures of schools, sports events, meetings, travel …. to name just a few. Let’s focus […]