Resilience
5 Ways to Practice Authenticity
The AONE 2018 meeting was full of rich and relevant content, great speakers and a huge expo hall ideal for learning and connecting. Everyone I met, from vendors to nurse leaders was refreshingly authentic, open and enthusiastic about nursing and healthcare today. Of all the diverse speakers I experienced, I found Patrick Kennedy to be the most exceptional. Known…
Keep Reading...Reframe for Easy
Last month I was honored to speak at the AORN Global Surgical Conference in New Orleans, also known as The Big Easy. There are a number of theories about where this nickname came from, but one of the more popular references is how easy it was (and still is) for musicians to land gigs in…
Keep Reading...5 Ways to Improve Your Wellbeing
As many of you already know, resilience is not just the ability to bounce back in adversity, but an overall sense of wellbeing. It defines how we show up everyday, in the storms as well as the puppies and rainbows of life. This is great news. Although we can’t control the storms, we can take…
Keep Reading...What are you tolerating?
I started my new year off by teaching a class on vision boards, and I created my own first. I intentionally left a lot of space because when I cram too many things into my life, it is difficult for me to stay in the moment and truly enjoy it. Creating space includes assessing your…
Keep Reading...Your Resilience Habit
Your resilience is defined by your habits because 95% of everything we feel, think, and do is a result of our habits. Our most critical habits may seem small and inconsequential, but repeated over time, they have huge results. See if this sounds familiar: You hit the snooze button one too many times after staying…
Keep Reading...Have you HAD it?
HAD is a term I coined as Holiday Affective Disorder, when you feel down, moody, and irritable anticipating and experiencing the holiday season. I have had a difficult time, (some years worse than others) around the holidays for most of my adult life as it represents a deep sense of loss for me, the biggest…
Keep Reading...Use This Resilience Skill When Things Don’t Go as Planned…
After a busy summer of travel with speaking and weddings, I was really looking forward to a writing retreat in San Diego at a beautiful resort. My partner was attending Sales Mastery and I thought it would be the perfect opportunity for me to get some uninterrupted writing time. I determined our arrival day would…
Keep Reading...What don’t you have time for?
Pura Vida is a beautiful health club I am fortunate enough to teach yoga at in North Denver. I was giving a good friend, who was my guest for the day a tour when we had this conversation: Her: What a state-of-the-art weight room, how often do you work out? Me:Â Oh, I don’t have…
Keep Reading...What Are You Willing to Do to Feel the Way You Want to Feel?
When I was showing our 5 year old granddaughter how to operate the shower after swimming, she asked very seriously, Should I wash all the body parts? I answered, Yes, all the body parts smiling inside and thinking about the parts of our bodies and lives we often don’t take care of, in other words,…
Keep Reading...Your Resilient Summer
Eighteen Summers: It’s All We Get, discusses how many summers we get with our kids before they grow up got me thinking, how many summers we all have left, especially as we know them now. Whether it’s our kids leaving, health declining, or interests wavering, summers, like everything else in life all change and end.…
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