September 2020

September 16, 2020
in Corporate Wellness, Emotional Wellness, Empowerment, Leadership, Resilience, Stress

Are you living with emotional inflammation? I’m not talking about the inflammation comes from eating inflammatory foods like gluten, dairy and sugar. We already know these can cause long-term inflammation linked to chronic disease. I’m talking about the daily inflammation that causes anxiety, despair and depression. The unhealthy state coined ‘emotional inflammation’ by psychiatrist Dr. Lise Van Susteren and writer Stacey Colino that stems from living in today’s overwhelming, tumultuous world. It's time to change up the menu. Catching up on overnight messages for breakfast; consuming excess social media for lunch and...

September 10, 2020
in Corporate Wellness, Emotional Wellness, Empowerment, Leadership, Resilience, Stress

Are you losing your personal power? Your daily marathons with long to-do lists and limited resources can give you a sense of power. Leading teams/business units through crisis can add to your power range. But, dealing with a difficult person can diminish your personal power. Why? Dealing with difficult people taps into what David Rock defines as 'Relatedness' in his brain-based SCARF model. Relatedness is one of five social domains that are either primary rewards or threats to your brain, so you open up or shut down to people and situations. Relatedness is about...

September 3, 2020
in Corporate Wellness, Emotional Wellness, Empowerment, Leadership, Resilience, Stress

“Do I really want to be doing this for the rest of my life?”, “Is this really worth all the personal sacrifices I’m making?” When you’re in your 30's and maybe 40's, there's a lot to keep you going - maybe it’s working for a specific company, or getting a promotion or a pay increase. But as you get older, you may question your way of living and working; your personal values call for attention, and you realise the clock is ticking. This post is dedicated to the late Sir Ken Robinson...