A Microsoft study that will make you pause. Because when’s the last time you had a good chat with yourself? I mean a really good chat, a kind and curious one? Where you paused for just a moment to check in with your body? Your emotions? Mind? Soul? When was the last time you paused to consider what’s going on inside and you asked yourself, “How am I doing in there?”

When I ask you if there's a critic on your team, I'm also going to add that it might be you. Now before you get upset with me, hear me out. We all have an inner critic; it's part of our human reaction to fear and uncertainty. It's very easy to fall into the mindset of the inner critic when we are faced with "not knowing," and we look for what's not working.

We have so many questions every day – and most of them are unproductive because under stress, we focus on what’s not working rather than being curious about how to make it work. It is not you, it is how we humans function and it has saved us from danger for centuries, however working that way every single day is exhausting. The good thing is we can cut through the noise inside our mind with a pause and by consciously asking better questions. 

Self-care. We want it, we need it. And yet, we continue to push it aside. We don’t do it. We procrastinate on it until tomorrow…

Over the past two years of the pandemic, self-care has become a hot topic. We thought working from home would finally give us more time for ourselves and yet, here we are, needing self-care more than ever in order to sustain us through the stress and anxiety we’re currently facing

What would you say if I proposed that this year, we do things a little more honestly…? I don't know about you, but I plan to face 2022 with a realistic perspective.

WE ARE NOT BROKEN.

Coming to the end of another pandemic year, we may feel broken from the constant FUD occupying our daily minds. “What is FUD?” you ask. FUD is Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt – and FUD has become inseparable from our lives since COVID first hit.

We may feel broken – but what we are experiencing at this moment is a loss of agency, not a breaking of the spirit.

Burnout has a ripple effect. We tend to wait to talk about burnout until we burn out, which then leads to a burnout culture. Not because we talk about it, but because once someone burns out the ripple effect means that others take more on to help out, and then they burn out too.

If you are like most people, resilience comes at a cost. We have been resilient in so many ways throughout history, throughout our lives and certainly this past year our resilience has been tested.

Just pause for a moment as you think about how self-care affects how you feel, how you think, how you engage, and how you act…

These days we are getting a new look at the importance of health and wellbeing, but we are also realizing, that eating well and exercising is not all we need.

How to cultivate a healthy culture has long been a question that has occupied conversations from HR to interior design.

The way we have been working isn’t working, when 50% of the workforce leave their job because of stress…

We all know the feeling, we dread going to work. Maybe not all the time, maybe not every day, but sometimes. However…