Work-life balance
Do You Need a Retreat?
Last month I facilitated Cone Health’s annual Well-Being Retreat for Coaches in the Well-Being Coaching Initiative. This is a day I get to provide the space and structure for them to focus on their own well-being. We all need support to do this, even as Coaches. Every retreat has a unique theme and this one…
Keep Reading...The Choice of Well-Being
On a recent monthly call with Well-Being Coaches, where we support each other in our celebrations and challenges, Tina, a nurse manager shared how overwhelmed and exhausted she felt. With short-staffing and numerous projects, she was working a lot and still not feeling good about anything, especially herself. She said she couldn’t even sit in…
Keep Reading... Want Your Best Year?
Do This ONE Thing
When I coach nurses in the Well-Being Coaching Initiative, I don’t advise, tell, or prescribe what to do to take care of themselves. They already know what they need to do, and so do you. The challenge is actually doing it and requires one thing and that is to prioritize—specifically, prioritize yourself. You already make…
Keep Reading...Retreat to Return
Summer is a season most of us look forward to all year with more outside time for gardening, barbecues, picnics, baseball games and concerts. And, this increased activity can feel overwhelming in our already very full lives. Instead of trying to squeeze it all in, we need to take a step back and slow down…
Keep Reading...What are You Resisting?
The AONL Conference in Boston last month was great for connecting with like-minded colleagues and gaining inspiration from thought leaders like Adam Grant, author of Think Again, The Power of Knowing what You Don’t Know. He says our biggest bias is thinking we don’t have bias! Bias creates resistance to change our mindset, which is…
Keep Reading...The Choice of Well-Being
Well-Being is how you feel about yourself and what you do every day and Self-Leadership supports you to make the best choices to positively affect it. Self-Leadership, the foundation of the Well-Being Coaching Initiative empowers you to make better choices, by giving you the skills, structure and support to prioritize yourself. Read a couple of…
Keep Reading...Thrive in ’25 with ONE Thing!
It’s the time when we are inundated with tips, tricks, and resolutions to make this year our best one yet. Our current “more is better” culture promotes, 50 Things I Wish I Started Doing Earlier in Life, 25 Simple Ways to Take Care of Yourself and 55 New Years Resolutions for 2025. These are all…
Keep Reading...The Joy of Simplicity
I received the following note after the Kick-Off for the Cone Health Well-Being Coaching Initiative with their Nursing Leadership, 20 Champions and 7 Coaches last month. This beautifully affirms the joy of simplicity that supports us to feel better about ourselves and what we do. I’m leaning into joy as I prepare dinner with my…
Keep Reading...The Power of Retreating
I was reminded of the power of Retreating earlier this month when I spent the day with the Atrium Health Well-Being Coaches at the
Keep Reading...5 Habits to Honor Your Capacity
As we begin month two of the new year, how are you doing with your more in 24? I am successful with being more Wholehearted, my focus, when I honor my capacity. This is because your capacity to love yourself determines your capacity to love others in a fully sincere, authentic, and enthusiastic way. Your…
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