Tag: inner monologue

  • Three Simple Nuggets to Cut Down the Panic

    Three Simple Nuggets to Cut Down the Panic

    So it’s been a while since we’ve been together. I’ve got a few good reasons. I’ve been busy with some cool things, like implementing my new mindfulness trainings for organizations (yay!). And of course, there’s the beloved MagicWrap project, which I won’t go into again here*. I’ve also been busy with tricky things, like keeping…

  • What We’re All Getting Wrong About our Freak-Outs

    What We’re All Getting Wrong About our Freak-Outs

    You know how this is an uncertain time? And how lots of people and articles and bloggers (including me) have been talking about how scary uncertainty is? So…we all had it all wrong. Let me show you what I mean. The other day I had one of those freak-out moments, when the uncertainty around this…

  • A Knowledge Nugget: How to REALLY Deal With Our Current Fears

    A Knowledge Nugget: How to REALLY Deal With Our Current Fears

    No doubt about it. It’s an uncertain, scary time. Social distancing has many of us feeling isolated. News stories filled with speculation have us scared and confused. The every-side-is-doing-it blame game fills us with anger and frustration. We worry about our loved ones. We worry about our bank accounts. We worry about how long this…

  • How to Stop Making Things Worse for Yourself

    How to Stop Making Things Worse for Yourself

    So, this happened… Now that I’ve begun with some melodrama, allow me to bring it down. I actually chose this situation. It was a planned, fairly major foot surgery that was decades in the making. One of the reasons I’d put it off is that it’s notoriously gnarly. In fact, many people who’d been in…