Stress Resilience. As our office contemplates its annual report and gathers themes to present to the university community, this term cycles through my mind. It is a new term for me. I recently discovered it while reading the New York Times Bestseller, “Lasting Happiness In a Changing World, The Book of Joy” by Dalai Lama […]
In 2018, I headed to Richmond, Virginia and I steeled myself for what would be an exhausting week of an Ombuds conference. All day meetings, evening catch ups, very little sleep. It wasn’t a stretch to predict getting sick each year, right after the conference. Something was different in my schedule this year, though. I
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What we can do to acknowledge where we are, get unstuck and work towards moving forward. Currently, we are several phases into the COVID-19 crisis. Even so, the truth is that we are still experiencing a wide spectrum of emotions and thoughts depending on where we are personally at: physically, mentally and emotionally. We may feel
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Challenging times. Difficult times. Extraordinary times. These are all phrases that have been used repeatedly during the Coronavirus pandemic and they are all true. Let’s sit with that for a moment . . . People are still contracting the virus, some are becoming very sick at home while others need to go to the hospital.
“Anxiety is contagious.” ~Brené Brown If someone told me last year that across the world we would have deserted city streets, people hoarding, skyrocketing death tolls, people wearing protective gear, I would have definitively declared this as the start of the zombie apocalypse. I won’t lie – I’m worried the apocalypse is coming and I
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