locked door to rest as we struggle with rest

Do you struggle with rest?

What does it mean for you to rest well? Do you struggle with rest? Chances are – especially if you are a woman – that you do. We can all-too-easily attribute attitudes like ‘lazy’, ‘unproductive’, ‘selfish‘, ‘self-indulgent’ to the idea of us resting. It might be easier to acknowledge that other people need to rest…

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Covid burnout - needing space?

Covid Burnout – a new variant of an old malaise

Burnout. A word that has been around for a long time, but now has a new dimension: Covid Burnout. The impact of the pandemic on our mental and emotional well being has been much documented. What is interesting is the dynamic of being too busy in a virtually virtual world and how that changes how…

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Aretha Franklin we all deserve respect

Respect: a basic value we live by?

Otis Redding sang it first, in 1965 but it was Aretha Franklin who made it into a mega-watt hit two years later. What am I talking about? R-E-S-P-E-C-T [You are singing it now I bet.] All Aretha was asking for was a little respect.  [You are most definitely singing it now : )] Turns out,…

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