Because I typically chime in, I can remember clearly two times when I didn’t but should have.
What I’ve Learned from Times I Didn’t Speak Up…But Should Have
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Concept of the Week: A Simple, Straightforward Strategy to Keep Learning
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“Concept of the week” helps me keep learning at a steady, doable pace. It isn’t rocket science…but maybe that’s why it works so well.
3 Rituals That Take Reading to the Next Level
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I follow these practices and embracing them has brought additional joy, order and meaning to my reading life.
The Power of Reflection: How I Find Wisdom in the Rearview
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Reflection isn’t alchemy: It doesn’t turn the dreadful into the delightful, or the other way around. But what reflecting does accomplish is that it helps us dig deep into an experience and to notice and remember the highlights, challenges, and resulting takeaways.
I’ve Moved 11 Times. Here’s the Biggest Lesson I’ve Learned
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But even as moving is expected at this phase of life, I’m struck, when reflecting on my experiences of switching homes and cities, by my memory of the difficulty of each relocation. I’m not talking about the physical act of packing all my things in boxes and loading a UHaul (though to be clear: I find this process 10 out of 10 on the tedious and stressful scale). Rather, I mean the emotional impacts of moving challenged me during every one of those 11 moves.
How I’m Embracing the Freedom That Comes From Closing a Door on an Opportunity
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Contentment Over Comparison: How Leaning into Gratitude Has Improved My Life
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If comparison steals joy, and gratitude cultivates it, then the path to contentment in a life that is overall marked by good fortune ( I’m not reckoning with systemic oppression, a trauma history, or any number of other major life challenges) isn’t so hard to navigate.
3 Ways to Stay Grounded During Life-Changing Moments
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I’ve embraced a few practices with life milestones to help me determine how to both meaningfully and realistically honor individual occasions.
The Underrated Value of Helpfulness (And How to Cultivate It)
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While a spirit of helpfulness contributes greatly to the quality of life of others, I think that it is, in many ways, an undervalued quality.
Overheard in the Office: How Listening in Taught Me To Be a Better Communicator
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In learning how to be a therapist, I’ve spent hundreds of hours reading about conducting assessments, paraphrasing and mirroring client disclosures, and teaching coping skills and strategies. I’m grateful for this formal education, but I’m just as grateful for the luck of office placement and the fact that I’ve learned valuable life lessons simply by overhearing a few phone conversations.
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