April is Stress Awareness Month, dedicated to refreshing ourselves on the signs and symptoms of stress and taking stock of its impact on our day-to-day lives. “Stress awareness” may be more relevant this year than most. In the past twelve…
How often do you beat yourself up when you make a mistake or experience failure? If it’s a regular thing for you, you aren’t alone. None of us likes to fall short of our goals. But especially for high-performers and…
As high-performing people, we tend to think a lot about leadership and the way we engage with and guide others around shared goals. We think less about how we lead ourselves. The idea of self-leadership was first introduced in 1983…
It’s not news, at this point, that stress can cause physical, mood-related and behavioral problems in all of us. Too much of it can lead to burnout, the near-total loss of energy and interest that comes with periods of prolonged…
It’s 7am. Your morning alarm is blaring beside your head. You stumble into the kitchen and see the mountain of yesterday’s dishes in the sink. You just didn’t have the time or energy to deal with it last night, after…
Maybe you’ve heard the story: in 2019, Olympic runner Alysia Montaño publicly called on Nike to provide better support for their sponsored female athletes who become pregnant. Athletes often rely on sponsorship to pay the bills, but many corporate sponsors,…
You’re a superstar. You know you’re a superstar. You work hard, you’re successful, and the accolades come in accordingly. Usually, you find this motivating, but lately? Lately, all of it just blurs into one long slog through the mud. Something’s…
Fifteen – even ten – years ago, if you’d told most of us we’d be living in a world where everyone from adolescents to octogenarians would be living at least a portion of their lives on the internet, you would’ve…
If you’ve ever known a young child, you’ve likely been there: it’s clear something is making them unhappy, but when you ask if they’re feeling sad, afraid or even angry, they either aren’t sure how to answer, or they give…
Most of us have a generally good understanding of the concept of self-esteem, or the way we look at and value ourselves. We know that low self-esteem is problematic because it causes us to have a low opinion of ourselves,…