Do you feel irritable, tired and unmotivated when it comes to your life and work? Do you lack inspiration, feel overwhelmed, and find yourself procrastinating when you try to complete projects? Do you find yourself without joy, vision and purpose in your daily life and work routines? You may be experiencing burn out, the physical…
This week’s blog is my Top 10 list of ways to combat, and practice overcoming depression. Depression is a debilitating condition that combines many factors, including body chemistry, past life experiences, substance use and abuse, current life situations and circumstances, to name some of the more prevalent factors. 10) Recognize and admit that depression is…
Women juggle many roles: jobs, mommies, wives, chauffeurs, students, grandmothers, leaders. … the list goes on. These roles are all demanding and the hours are few! A woman who is focused on getting it ALL done can be trying to live up to high expectations, whether self-imposed or other directed. Operating on the assumption that…
Guest Blogger: Alyssa Wiley Fast, BA, daughter of staff therapist, David Wiley, MS, LPC. To read Part One of this blog, click here… Study Smarter As the saying goes, work smarter not harder. This is especially important when studying with ADHD. A good work ethic is important, but it’s not so much the amount of time put…
Guest Blogger: Alyssa Wiley Fast, BA, daughter of staff therapist, David Wiley, MS, LPC When my father suggested to me at age 17 that I might have ADHD, I was unsure.“I can’t have ADHD.” I thought. Unlike the boy from fifth grade, who had ADHD and was always shouting out answers and getting out of his…
Wait a minute, that’s not how the song is supposed to go! Yet, once upon a time, Summer started on Memorial Day, and, ended just after Labor Day. That provided a lengthy time period for those, “lazy days of summer.” A summer camp for the kids, and a week vacation provided most of the structure…
If you are an entrepreneur, following your passion and building a business is something that takes courage, positive energy and creative business planning. It means embracing the joys, living out the excitement and following the ideas that you desire to see move into fruition. As a creative entrepreneur, I enjoy mapping out the path for…
When was the last time that somebody said something to you that just seemed to ‘rub you the wrong way?’ Maybe it was your boss, a teacher, your son or daughter, maybe even your spouse! It wasn’t necessarily what they said…it was how they said it. For the sake of this blog, we are going…
Sometimes we go on autopilot, am I right? We mundanely move through the day, doing our routines, running the errands, attending meetings and responding to emails. It can be easy to turn off your brain and move through the “To-Do” list. We easily lose touch with our thought processes, body tension and attitude. By the…
We’ve all had them, those things that happen, seemingly out of nowhere, that catch us off-guard, just when everything was starting to smooth out a bit. All of a sudden, there it is; the UNEXPECTED. You know the ones, the kind of surprises we don’t like. It could be getting that call into HR with…