Wellness Wednesday – March 16, 2022: Saboteurs: Stickler, Pleaser, Hyper-Achiever, and Victim
As we learned last week, Saboteurs are negative mental habits that, although working against our best interest, try to convince us through their lies that they are working for us. By naming our Saboteurs and becoming aware of their script, we can limit their influence...
Wellness Wednesday – March 9, 2022: Saboteurs – Judge and Hyper-Vigilant
Over the last few years, we have conducted numerous presentations on managing stress. Certainly, our lives are made more difficult by events over which we have very little or no control. COVID and the war in Ukraine are significant examples. Stressors also come from...
Wellness Wednesday – March 2, 2022: Emotions Reveal Values: Changing Emotions Changes Values
Our recent Wellness Wednesday messages have examined how our values are revealed by our emotions. Matthew Kelly has said, “It is important to realize that you cannot journey to a new place and at the same time stay where you are.” Translated into our focus on...
Wellness Wednesday – February 23, 2022: Emotions Reveal Values – The Joy of Innocence
We know that our health and wellness are connected to our thoughts, which in turn create the experiences we have. Unfortunately, we also know that people are hard-wired to default, particularly in challenging times, to negative emotions such as fear, anger, disgust,...
Wellness Wednesday: February 16, 2022 – What Do We Value? Listen to Emotions
With the celebration of Valentine's Day this week, I found myself thinking about what and who I value. The concept of values clarification came into the education world in the 1970’s. However, my introduction to clarifying values happened the 20 years before that....
Wellness Wednesday – February 9, 2022: Journey Toward Peace: Prepare for Amazing
If a basketball team has a game at 7:00 tonight, they would spend 30 minutes before the game warming up and preparing. If we are serious about handling conflict situations in a manner that allows us to journey toward peace, we have to warm up and prepare prior to...
Wellness Wednesday – February 2, 2022: Journey Toward Peace: Heart-to-Heart
As we learned from our mule friends last week, Toe-to-Toe is a well-established way of dealing with conflict that doesn’t get the best possible results. The problem isn’t conflict, but the way we SEE conflict. We can continue to see conflict the same old way…we are...
Wellness Wednesday – January 26, 2022: Journey Toward Peace: Toe-to-Toe
Peace, or the lack of peace, is often associated with conflict. Conflict occurs when two or more people or groups compete with each other in order to get what they desire. The mules in this picture illustrate conflict. The problem with conflict isn’t conflict. The...
Wellness Wednesday – January 19, 2022: Journey Toward Peace: Practice ‘YES, AND’
We have all had the experience of “My way” versus “Your way.” I say “Yes” to my way and “No” to your way. This approach tends to divide us and prevents us from discovering meaningful and beneficial possibilities. When my nephew Nick was in high school, he participated...
Wellness Wednesday – January 12, 2022: Journey Toward Peace: Keep an Open Mind
As we search for strategies and practices that lead towards peace, keeping an open mind appears essential. While reflecting on this, I have become aware of a strategy I have practiced so frequently that it has become a negative mental habit. That habit, which is a...