The kids were driving me crazy! I needed to get their energy expressed somehow but it was very windy and cold outside. I just couldn’t take their whining anymore and needed some air. So I took them for their first ever, “run” in a nearby park. By chance, I grabbed some bread on our way out, for the deer at the petting zoo which I thought we might visit on the way back from the run. Off we went for […]
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The overthinking chatter going on inside my head is one of the biggest problems I struggle with as I learn to deal with uncertainty of life and the unpredictability of a career. Normally, it’s fine to have a pro/con debate about choices you want to make in life but so often I’ve found the overthinking to be associated with paralyzing negative thoughts. “No, you can’t do that!”, “that’s just not logical or reasonable” or “why take a chance?”, “stop dreaming […]
Read moreI had a revelation the other day. Ok, maybe it was the Nyquil/Flu derived drible in the middle of the night. The root of so much of our stress lies in our attempt to have CONTROL over the uncontrollable! It started with a simple question posed by my 4 year old daughter: “Why can’t I have this TV show right now?”, she asked pleading with me to magically make her favorite episode of her favorite TV show appear instantly. It’s […]
Read moreI felt like someone hit me in my stomach. Nervous, anxious, serious all rolled up into one giant ball of anxiety strung up so tight that the lightest of words would shatter my confidence revealing my fragile self. My palms were balmy. My forehead felt the bead of sweat starting to crystallize. I had made a mistake. Not a big one but who knows? It was unpredictable. I thought I was doing the right thing. A really good thing. Ethical, […]
Read moreI was stressed and burned out always worrying about the future. With all the chaos at work, I just couldn’t figure out how to deal with uncertainty of an increasingly complex career path. I had a family that depended on me and a mortgage. All the stress and anxiety due to uncertainty affected my life at home, my relationship and it took years off my health…not to mention turning into gray the little hair on my head I had left. […]
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