Wellness Wednesday – May 25, 2022: CONNECTION: HELPING OTHERS
Experiencing connection is essential for mental health and social-emotional well-being. Last week’s Wellness Wednesday focused on sharing my story with others as a way to experience connection. Helping others is another meaningful way of experiencing connection and...
Wellness Wednesday – May 18, 2022: CONNECTION: SHARING MY STORY
Wellness Wednesday is focusing on mental health and social and emotional well-being. At the root of this is every person’s need to belong and experience connection. In his farewell address to the nation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower said: “This world of ours…must...
Wellness Wednesday – May 11, 2022: BELONGING AND SELF-ACCEPTANCE
The next few Wellness Wednesdays will focus on our mental health and our social and emotional well-being. The pandemic as well as numerous other events in our country and world have taken a toll on our mental, social, and emotional well-being. Fundamental to our...
Wellness Wednesday – May 3, 2022: Healthy Diet for Kids
In a sense, we are what we eat. What we eat can determine the composition and the activities of our cells. Consequently, children/students need a healthy diet with the proper amounts of nutrients to keep their cells and organs–including the brain–healthy. What does...
Wellness Wednesday – April 27, 2022: Sometimes Foods
As a follow-up to last week’s Wellness Wednesday, I asked Kelly Ferraro, my friend and nutritionist, to share some ideas about Sometimes Foods. Remember the Lay’s Potato Chip slogan, “You can’t eat just one”? The folks at Lay’s were right and they knew it. In fact,...
Wellness Wednesday – April 20, 2022: Food – Focus on Nutrients, Not Calories
Being Italian, it’s hard to imagine that I have penned over a hundred Wellness Wednesdays without ever writing about food. Having spent several visits over the last few months with Kelly Ferraro, my friend and nutritionist, it’s time to focus on food. We are all...
Wellness Wednesday – April 13, 2022: Inheritance
I recently received an inheritance from a relative after her passing. Experiencing this made me reflect on countless inheritances I have received throughout my life. By way of these reflections, I have come to realize that much of what is meaningful in my life is the...
Wellness Wednesday – April 6, 2022: Balance: Be Silly
While our last four Wellness Wednesday messages focused on the seriousness of saboteurs, throughout the month of March we experienced continual COVID challenges, the rise of inflation, and a devastating war in Ukraine. As real and serious as these experiences are, I’m...
Wellness Wednesday – March 30, 2022: Quieting Our Saboteurs
Shirzad Chamine, who has helped us identify the ten saboteurs listed below, is essentially asking us, “Who do you listen to?” Judge Pleaser Victim Hyper-Vigilant Controller Stickler Hyper-Achiever Restless Hyper-Rational Avoider...
Wellness Wednesday – March 23, 2022: Saboteurs: Hyper-Rational, Restless, Controller, and Avoider
We have been sharing Shirzad Chamine’s wonderful work on positive intelligence during the past two weeks. Today will shine light on four more pesky Saboteurs identified by Shirzad that are roadblocks to our success and effectiveness. Hyper-Rational The Hyper-Rational...