Tag Archives: feel

roller coaster

We Are on an Emotional Covid Roller Coaster

We are on an Emotional Covid Roller Coaster right now. This a straight up fact. And what do roller coasters have? Highs, and lows. And curves that whip your head around and even some slow times when nothing much is… more →

Loving yourself

Loving Yourself is a Radical Act

Why talk about loving yourself on a podcast about being a better person? Well, in the immortal words of RuPaul, “If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?”  But there’s more to it… more →

Creating A Quarantine Routine

Creating a Quarantine Routine

When it comes to steadying yourself during uncertain times,  routine is your friend. Creating a quarantine routine will give your days a basic rhythm and help ground you. Doing so will also ensure that you’re doing the things that sustain… more →

Build Your Resilience

Build Your Resilience and ‘Keep Going’

Every challenge has an opportunity wrapped up inside of it if you can learn to build your resilience. One of those opportunities now is to build your resilience and strengthen our ‘keep going’ muscles. Now, I will admit that some… more →

Tips on Having Difficult Conversations

Having Difficult Conversations

Difference of opinion is nothing new. And in these unique times, we are being forced into having difficult conversations with one another on what feels like a daily basis. With the stakes so high in pretty much every area of… more →

self-care

37 Ways to Practice Self-Care

“Self-care” is kind of a buzzword these days, and like all buzzwords, it can seem a little bit like not-a-real-thing. Like, “ideating”—what the heck is that? But just like child care and elder care are legitimate, important things, so is… more →

tough times

An Antidote to Tough Times

Oh my goodness gracious, what a week—elections, another mass shooting, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has fallen and fractured her ribs. Silly me, I thought that once election day had passed we’d get a bit of a breather. But the hits just… more →

should you watch the news

Should You Watch the News or Avoid the News?

I mentioned last week that I shared in a private Facebook group that I was feeling upset about the state of affairs in America and around the world. I got many responses that were supportive, a couple that were combative,… more →