As part of my annual planning for 2020, I wrote down the lessons I learned this year. What lessons have you learned this year? I encourage you to take time to reflect and capture those lessons on paper. You may be surprised at all you can take with you into the new year.
Wanting to Expand Your Company’s Well-Being?
Is your company starting to expand your wellness conversation into well-being? Or are you thinking about including behavioral health in your programs? Are you recognizing the need to talk about mental health, but you don’t know where to start? Or do you just know that stress is a constant reality for your employees?
From keynotes, to programs, to workshops, to large-scale initiatives, I can help your company begin to integrate these important conversations into your workplace, at your pace, and based on your company’s unique culture.
You can learn more by emailing me at booth@boothandrews.com.
Episode 30: 4 Stress Recovery Strategies That Don’t Cost $$
Self-care seems to have become synonymous with acts of indulgence. But the truth is that self-care doesn’t have to cost a thing. A quick recap: chronic stress leads to chronic inflammation which leads to chronic disease. If we do not learn to mitigate stress in our lives through recovery activities, then we are not giving our bodies the chance to recover from the onslaught of stressors we face every day. SO, consider self-care a lifeline of sorts. This episode explores 4 acts of self-care that don’t cost any money, but can have a profound impact on our lives.
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My Current Reading Obsession:
A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
by: Parker J. Palmer
Here he speaks to our yearning to live undivided lives—lives that are congruent with our inner truth—in a world filled with the forces of fragmentation.
Mapping an inner journey that we take in solitude and in the company of others, Palmer describes a form of community that fits the limits of our active lives. Defining a “circle of trust” as “a space between us that honors the soul,” he shows how people in settings ranging from friendship to organizational life can support each other on the journey toward living “divided no more.”