Scheduling as Self-care

Overwhelmed by multiple work projects, distracted by her phone, bombarded by an endless flood of emails, stressed about deadlines, my client was at a loss for how to manage it all. No matter how hard she worked, she seemed to be getting further behind. At the end of a session in which we had discussed how she would schedule a time for everything, she reflected back to me her epiphany: Scheduling is a form of self-care.

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Have A Very Minimalist Holiday

If you have spent the year de-cluttering, you may be panicking about the upcoming holidays and the onslaught of gifts poised to invade your home. The serenity you feel when you open a tidy drawer or walk through a room without tripping over detritus is about to be obliterated in one tsunami of wrapping paper. How do you preserve your neat home and prevent holiday gifts from hijacking all the space you just liberated?  Below are a few tips to strengthen your efforts at minimalism: 

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Navigating Valentine's Day When You're Sailing Alone

If you’re in a happy romantic relationship, then you might cruise by aisles of heart-shaped candies with a smile and wonder what you will do to surprise your partner for Valentine’s Day. But if your romance is rocky or if you’re single and longing for a partner, then the festive pink and red candy might be more bitter than sweet. 

Here are some ways to get around resenting Valentine’s Day, even when every song on the radio is about romance, you are assaulted once a week with the question, “Are you still single?” and you live in a state that reminds you that “Virginia is for Lovers.”

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What Are Your Red Light Foods?

Name your poison...is it crunchy and salty? Creamy and sweet?

Or perhaps sweet and crunchy?

Whatever your dream combination, this is the food that you cannot stop eating until it’s gone. After you have feasted on an entire bag of potato chips and feel sick, they don’t seem so heavenly. But if another bag is in your pantry, you will gorge that down too.

A food that you cannot resist eating is called a red light food.

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Self-Care: Formulas for Eating Healthy

Figuring out how to fit healthy eating into busy schedules is something that I focus on with about ninety percent of my clients. Even if that’s not why they came to work with me, most people are neglecting their nutrition.

We all have different nutritional needs, but nearly everyone should be getting more water and eating more vegetables.

Here are some easy-to-remember formulas that I share with my clients to shift their eating habits in a positive direction.

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