-
Curiosity is my new Superpower
I have spent my life working hard, attempting to balance the stress of a busy professional life with trying to raise 3 good humans of my own, while at the same time nurturing my relationship with my husband. This hard work has brought me great success, but left very little time for myself. People would often say to me, “you’re a supermom”, I guess because I always seemed to keep things in balance? And to keep this illusion of balance, I became a consummate multi-tasker, always managing to keep the balls in the air. I always assumed that was my super-power. But there is a video of my kids, I…
-
Where is the green grass?
The grass is always greener, right? I’ve been ruminating on this for the past few weeks. Why do we use this phrase to placate ourselves when we covet something that someone else has? Is it something we tell ourselves to justify the guilt we feel over choices made, or not made, because we can take pity on ourselves that what others have is better than what we have. Does it allow us to feel ok being unsatisfied with what we have right in front of us, and put most of the “blame” so to speak, into the cosmos, as if life somehow makes the grass greener over there. How…
-
How Our Health Falls Back When We Spring Forward
As we approach Daylight Saving Time (DST) on March 12, 2023 many of us easily recognize the annoyance of not only resetting all our clocks, but also of losing an hour of sleep as we spring ahead. We trade this lost hour of sleep for an extra hour of daylight in the evening, but at what cost? The National Sleep Foundation’s 2021 Sleep in America Poll revealed that 70% of Americans don’t think their sleep, routines or mood are disrupted by changing the clocks. In the same poll, while only 1 in 4 Americans want to keep the biannual clock change, greater than 50% felt the US should stay in…
