Your body isn’t the only thing that needs an annual wellness checkup. Your finances will benefit from one, too. An annual review of your finances will help you catch problems and avoid mistakes. Consider these areas when determining your financial health: Personal balance sheet. List all of your assets (investments, retirement accounts, cash, home/real estate,…
The COVID-19 pandemic will reach its second anniversary in March. This anniversary may bring up difficult memories or feelings. You may experience one or more of these reactions: Disbelief. The last two years may feel like a bad dream. You may wonder if life will ever get back to normal. Time distortion. Two years of…
Resilience is the ability to adapt to and overcome challenges and setbacks. While some people may seem more resilient than others, everyone is capable of developing this skill. It’s helpful to think of resilience as a well that can be filled with experience and then drawn from as needed during difficult times. With practice, you…
Hearing about the violence in Ukraine may be disturbing, especially if you have personal connections to the country. You may experience emotional reactions, such as: Feeling vulnerable and insecure. Watching these events on the news, especially if you have friends or family members there, may affect your sense of personal safety and security. You may…
Please join us for this free live webinar, a special offering for members of our network. Topics will include: It’s an away game: The need to use clinical skills within a consultant function Why do businesses call us anyway? The human and business costs of critical incidents Not part of our clinical training: Industry-specific examples…
How Empathia’s Services Magnify Your Organization’s Compassion When things are at their worst, we’re at our best. Empathia’s purpose is creating a more compassionate, caring world by delivering meaningful solutions to individuals, organizations and communities. For more than 35 years, we have offered reliable, quality-driven support services to organizations, with many options to make our…
It may seem counter-intuitive, but during times when we feel under siege from workloads, angst, bad news and suffering, we need to practice gratitude. Otherwise, we are at risk of inadvertently developing a “negative cognitive bias.” In other words, we start constantly looking for what’s wrong, threatening, or negative in our environment. Without realizing it,…
For many of us, hand-washing is a mindless activity we engage in several times a day. It’s also a perfect opportunity to create a mindful moment — a time to “reboot” your brain when it becomes scattered, rushed or twitchy. Here’s how to do it: If there’s a mirror above the sink, briefly reconnect with…
Soothing music and nature sounds, even in brief interludes, offer many psychological benefits. Obviously, these sounds need to be of your own choosing, reflecting your preferences. You already know, through experience, what kinds of music and natural sounds create positive states of mind for you. Immersion in these auditory inputs provides, among others, the following…
We all talk to ourselves in the privacy of our own thoughts. Often, this self-talk occurs in the background of one’s awareness, but it can have major impacts on how we feel and behave. During challenging times, negative self-talk undermines hope, escalates anxiety and worry, diminishes emotional well-being, and can fuel generalized inflammation in the…