Yesterday a student at my sons high school went to school in the morning, sat through all his AM classes, left campus for lunch and committed suicide. An absolutely unthinkable tragedy for his family and those who knew and loved him. The principal shared the news with the student body sending shock waves from room …
“If you’ve experienced a house fire, you’ll jump at the smell of burning toast” I tell my client. It’s what we call hyper-vigilance. Once we have a big fight or flight response, we typically don’t come all the way back down to baseline, then we have another one, and we don’t come all the way …
Think of a typical routine for a busy, working mother. Every moment of the day is utilized, sometimes trying to do multiple things at once. She complains of forgetting things. She feels frazzled and distracted. She is sometimes short tempered, edgy or irritable and usually tired and overwhelmed. She’s trying to keep up with 1,000 …
I’m fresh off the most inspiring, jammed packed, chock full of information, jump onboard or you’ll be trampled, make your knees shake writing and publishing conference at Harvard and my head is still sifting through the gold of all the things I need to do next! This isn’t the first time I’ve found myself stepping …