Category: selfcare
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My Top Ten. How I Make Sure I Put Myself First Throughout the Year.
We all have many (different) responsibilities. Some of them are not sexy or glamorous. And some of them we ‘must do’. Last year, 2022 I realigned myself with some ‘me’ practices. I am sharing a few things that I have done and practiced. These are my top ten. Enjoy and I hope this empowers and…
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The House Is Burning
Why Advocacy Needs To Change For Things to Change Imagine a fire. Imagine a crowd of people pontificating and talking about the fire while the house is burning. There is another crowd of people waiting for the fire to finish so that they can sell the land and build another house…hopefully it won’t burn again.…
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Conferencing Like a Motha
Building a Place for People and Their Parts Full disclosure, I write this from the perspective of a mother who enjoys working from home. My office door is more open than closed. I have almost mastered doing more in four hours than most do in eight. I have also realized that working during untraditional hours…
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Papercuts.
What Planned Ignoring Does and Why We Shouldn’t Get Comfortable With It It hurts my feelings to be ignored. She said it. In her full five year old boldness. And I understood it. I quickly got it. It gave me pause and moved me to think about how ignoring (planned or unplanned) is dismissive of…
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For The Sake of Human Dignity
Cultivating Care Within Problem Behavior While Serving People For the last few months, my family has had to make some really tough medical decisions with and for a beloved family member. Like many people, we are faced with caring for ourselves, our children, and loved ones at different points in their lives. It’s made me…
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Lessons from #Chopped
What Foodnetwork TV has taught me about Corrective Feedback, Using my words, and the importance of being a Supervisor and Supervisee. Chopped surprised me. I thought it would be about food. This show has given lessons in feedback (giving and receiving) and, how at any moment, everyone should be ready to learn and level up.…
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Being the Same Will Not Do
Why Pruning Matters… My favorite flowers are Tulips. But I especially love Peonies and Hydrangeas. Fortunately, #TraderJoes keeps a nice stock of fresh flowers and I travel there almost weekly. Though I love flowers, I am a *clears throat * low activity individual when it comes for the care that fresh flowers require. On my…
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Skills are Good. But Follow Your Gift.
Why Finding the Room to Operate In Your Gift Matters Clinicians have skills. And we also have gifts. The gifts are on our insides. They help us climb over the tough stuff they didn’t teach us in school. You know hits, jabs, snarky conversations, and (my favorite), the bodily fluids. Gifts are what make us…
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