Candid
Wind Phones: Speaking Grief to the Wind In the middle of a hilltop garden in Otsuchi, Japan, sits an old-style phone booth with a disconnected rotary phone and notebook. People from all walks of life, from the countryside and from the bustling metropolis, travel to this phone booth to dial the number of people they […]
3, 33, or 75? New year. New semester. Time for new goals, right? It’s pretty common to hear that New Year’s Resolutions have fallen out of favor. Truth be told, they don’t really work. We start with our resolve and a healthy dose of enthusiasm to do something positive or stop something negative, only to […]
Fall Back… to Sleep! This past weekend Daylight Savings Time ended… and we got one extra hour overnight. We are all bummed that it is dark a lot earlier now. On the flip side, morning is lighter sooner. At this time in the semester, sleep can feel like a rare commodity. Several students have been […]
Why Coaching? When I first heard about health coaching, I was skeptical. I wasn’t sure if it was some sort of workout cheerleader, or someone who would tell me to eat my vegetables. So, I did some research. That research led me to eventually not only begin using health and life coaching, but to be […]
How We Talk to Ourselves I had a conversation with my daughter recently, who is taking a psychopathology course at her University. They were discussing seasonal affective disorder (which she struggled with last year). She learned that people in higher latitudes (she is in school in Vermont) are at higher risk (less daylight). She also […]
Here we are at the beginning of a new semester. Whenever we are at the beginning: the beginning of a race, a game, a relationship, a semester… we usually are both optimistic and hopeful about how things will turn out. That’s actually a good thing! It gives us the motivation to start new things. Our […]
