[Note: this post was originally published on Substack April 1, 2025]

Learning about Communication Types is a key to Healing

 PUBLICATION NOTE: I am moving this blog over to my website. Substack has been fun, but now it feels like it’s way too big for the kinds of things I want to discuss. If you...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack March 18, 2025] 

Learning about Communication Types is a key to Healing

The third type of unsuccessful communication is Aggressive Communication. This is where someone is attacking another person with harsh, pushy, or demanding words and behavi...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack March 4, 2025] 

Learning about Communication Types is a key to Healing

Returning to my previous post about Communication Types, the next unsuccessful communication type I wanted to share with you was the Passive type.

If you have ever just let...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack February 3, 2025] 

Learning about Communication Types is a key to Healing

In my last post, I talked about realizing that my people-pleasing and codependent behaviors are still hanging around, waiting for me to get stressed out, then come out of...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack January 11, 2025] 

My healing journey continues

The thing about healing from burnout is that there really isn’t an “end.” There isn’t a day the cast comes off and you’re back to full health, the way you might be with a broken arm. It’s a long, ...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack August 27, 2024] 

Part 7 of 10 in the series, “How do I launch a business while on my burnout recovery journey?”

It may seem crazy to launch a business after going through burnout. Where does all the energy come from? How do you manage the stre...

[Note: this post was originally published on Substack August 15, 2024] 

...even if it wasn’t as much as I wanted to do or as much as I did yesterday

 Part 6 of 10 in the series, “How do I launch a business while on my burnout recovery journey?”

It may seem crazy to launch a business after going t...

[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...

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...

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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