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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 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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...