This week I’m excited to bring you a guest blog from Judy Ringer, a conflict expert, author, speaker, and trainer. I love how Judy uses the martial art of Aikido as a valuable metaphor and [...]

I hear messages about how important it is to take care of myself, and I hear messages that true happiness comes when I focus on helping others. If you’re like me, maybe you find these conflicting [...]

Really? Hope can help me reach my goals? This article caught my attention! I can use all the help I can get. According to Ryan Niemiec, a licensed psychologist and education director of the VIA [...]

Do you hate asking for help? Today I was thinking about two very dear friends in my life. One has a much easier time asking for help compared to the other.  I get it. I don’t like to bother [...]

This week, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share an excerpt from a fabulous “advice” article by Christine Carter, an author, sociologist and Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s [...]

Have you ever been misunderstood or misunderstood someone else’s intentions? It’s because there’s a problem with our stories we tell ourselves. As I was approaching the [...]

How often do we think things like, Why does this always happen to me? Why do things never go my way? This is normal and automatic. It’s easy to notice when things don’t go the way we want. But [...]

Do we learn more when things go as expected or when they don’t? When I was a scientist working in the lab, I would commonly spend my days setting up experiments. The goal was to develop assays [...]

Sheryl and her husband Dave were on a family vacation in Mexico. When Dave didn’t show up for dinner with friends, Sheryl rushed to the hotel’s fitness center to find him. To her horror, she [...]

Do you ever get mad at yourself for making a mistake? I was slowly backing out of the parking spot when I heard my husband yell something from the passenger seat. Too late! A moment later, I [...]