How resilient are you?
Resilience is a word we hear often but what does it really mean? According to the American Psychological Association resilience is “[…] the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress—such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors. It means […]
Parenting and Clearing Life’s Hurdles
Clearing life’s hurdles while parenting is not easy. Graduations are not hurdles, they are a time for celebration, and they usually make me emotional. Have you ever experienced this? It comes from that sense that a part of my parenting “job” has been completed. Another life stage is emerging for this being I brought into […]
Improving Wellbeing with Five Small Actions
I recently participated as a panelist for the Health Promotion in Panemics Global Webinar for Youth, organized by the Alliance for Health Promotion, an international NGO based in Geneva. I had the good fortune to work alongside other experts in the wellbeing field as well as youth activist making a positive impact on the wellbeing of the […]
Breaking the Stress Cycle
Stress is something we cannot avoid in life. Breaking the stress cycle while it is occurring is our best defense against the long-term impacts of stress and keeping our internal batteries charged for overall happiness and success in our life’s endeavors. I have been working with the International Baccalaureate (IB) students of Ecolint’s Nations Campus […]
Staying Healthy and Balanced
Now is the time to keep your Immune System functioning as it should! With Covid-19 closing schools, quarantining entire towns and instigating a mad dash to clear the shelves of non-perishable foods at the supermarkets it is time to take a step back and think about how might this affect me personally? When we keep our immune […]