[Note: this post was originally published on Substack April 18, 2023] 

The story around my jar of Peanut M&Ms

I’ve been feeling stressed lately, which means I've been numbing myself a lot to try and cope.  It’s not my preferred way of getting through the day... anymore. I used to use numbing behav...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack March 02, 2023]

Learning to let go

I would not be able to speak now about the things that I experienced without the lessons I learned about "forgiveness". I'm not talking about the "forgive and forget" that I heard all through my childhood. Tha...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack January 25, 2023]

A little about why I'm writing

Such a beautiful moment. A young girl running carefree through a field of dandelions with nothing but the joy of childhood to look forward to.  

This isn’t me and this never happened in my life....

Hi friends,

If you've been following along, you know that I started telling my healing journey from burnout over on Substack a couple of years ago, when it was still a small and cozy place where you could have a quiet conversation. It was a great place to start out trying my hand at writing, especi...

One of the things I have learned as I recover from burnout is how much I fell into a “People Pleaser” role from a very young age. While that is a very valid set of characteristics and way of describing the behavior where we put everyone else before ourselves, I believe the way Emily Nagoski, PhD and...

Have you ever been in a meeting where something uncomfortable is being discussed, often a difficult change that must take place, and the leader says, “What questions do you have?” and there’s nothing but crickets and the leader thinks things are just fine while the rest of the group is wondering wha...

I was reading Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek recently and this concept of work-life balance was being discussed. Here's what he wrote:

If we work in an environment in which leadership tells the truth, in which layoffs are not the default in hard times and in which incentive structures do not pit

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