How to Keep Your Goals

Every journey starts with a goal. Whether you are trying to finish your school year, get through a busy season at work, get that body beach ready after over a year of pandemic sheltering, save up an emergency fund, or improve your mental health, you have a goal. Goals...

How to Stop Criticizing Yourself

  Have you ever been told that you are too hard on yourself? I recognize the irony in that statement as it is also a criticism. Unbeneficial self-criticism is a difficult issue to overcome because it is so helpful in many ways. Unfortunately, it can also lead to...

Decision Fatigue

  Having difficulty making decisions is a tendency often attributed to the people-pleasers of the world. As a recovering people-pleaser myself, please know I use the term endearingly. Learning to set aside needs and feelings for the sake of preventing conflict is...

Part 3: Tips for Coping with Depression and Pandemic Blues

  For the third part of this series, I am going to shift the focus back to sharing practical, evidence-based strategies for coping with depression during this uniquely difficult time.  Opposite Action Opposite action is the intentional practice of doing the...