Career Transitions: Reflections on saying good-bye
Happy Spring! As the Chicago weather transitions from freezing cold to hot to (kinda)cold again, it seems poetic that I am going through...
Reflections on my first "Day of Mindfulness"
I started a formal meditation practice about 8 months ago, and a large part of this was joining a Sangha that meditates as a group once a...
Practicing Self-Care: Moving from "Should" to "Good" Habits
If you follow me on Twitter, then you know that yesterday I gave a talk on self-care for the Maternal and Child Health Program in the...
New Year's Intentions
Happy New Year everyone! As a new calendar year begins, I like to take the opportunity to reflect on the past year and to think about...
Self-Compassion: What is it and how do you do it?
It has been awhile since I last posted! I was fortunate enough to be able to spend the majority of September traveling in China and...
Don't forget to take care of you! The Mother's Self-Care Challenge!
Today I wanted to highlight one of my favorite blogs for mothers called Living Self-Care. Essentially the blog features daily posts from...
Good Morning America, "Advice Guru" Application!
A few months ago, I just happened to be at the gym on a cardio machine facing a row of televisions, one of which was on Good Morning...
Reclaiming the Ancient Power of Poetry
I absolutely love a magazine called The Sun. It is an ad-free, monthly publication of short stories, poems, and photography and each...
The "U-bend" of life: Does old age bring more wisdom and more happiness?
I attended a lecture recently in which the speaker was discussing “successful aging” and the idea that people actually become happier...
In the end, it is all up to me.
I came across this quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe today, and I think it captures the sentiment I have come to (albeit reluctantly)...