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Scaling the Wall of Mental Health
Our attitudes toward mental health are interesting. It’s really just one aspect of our overall condition, along with physical health. In fact, some dictionaries even define the word health as: a person's mental or physical condition. Yet on some levels, we...
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Battling Back After the Storm
Events like a storm or a flood ruin possessions and destroy homes, schools, and businesses. Events like terrorist attacks and other crimes destroy property and kill and maim individuals. Those are the stories we hear on the news. What we usually don't hear...
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Whatever It Takes – Just Show Up
Many people spend good money on changing their lives - to advance their careers or reach personal goals. They go to college or trade school, or take online courses or seminars. Some people even hire life and career coaches. But what good is spending all that time and...
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Mindful Leadership To Create A Vibrant Workplace
In some circles these days, one of the buzziest of buzzwords is mindfulness. The simplest definition: the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one's thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis. So, you...
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Holding On When Things Get Tough
Very few of us get through life without something bad happening to us. Maybe it’s a “regular” bad thing, the kind of event we expect to experience at some point in our lives. Like the deaths of loved ones, getting our heart broken by someone we cared for, being fired...
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In Honor of Gratitude
It’s that time of year – to express gratitude for what you have in your life. No matter the date on the calendar, I work on being grateful and really do pay attention to the things that are going right in my life. Yet, like so many expected feelings we tie...
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Mental Health is Just Health
If you’ve ever experienced issues with your mental health, then you know how differently it’s treated than our physical health. By doctors and health insurance companies, by employers and managers, by the press and the general public. Yet, they’re not...
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What Harold Knows About Resiliency
Recently I had occasion to reread Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955 book about the tiny, pajama-clad Harold. This young boy goes on an adventure one evening, leaving behind the comfort of his bed to walk in the moonlight. I remember...
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Communicating in a Crisis: Talking Trauma (Part 2)
Crisis communications is complex - there are many steps to the process. Here we are talking about how to craft the message once you’ve identified the layers of audiences to communicate with. A crisis, like a bombing or a bridge collapse, is filled with...
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Communicating in a Crisis: Talking Trauma (Part 1)
It was an honor to work closely with crisis communications professionals at a Crisis Communications conference in Chicago this week. The theme: Navigating a crisis to protect your brand through storytelling. My task was to help these industry and government...
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