How To Pay Your Body Back™ With Me Time

Allowing your body to catch up with all you ask it to do is important! Make sure you Pay Your Body Back™ with some Me Time! How often do you set aside time to do something just for yourself? Daily life is busy and there is always another load of laundry waiting to be done……

Busy Woman’s Guide to Stress Management Tip: Watch something delightful

Take a break from your day, smile, and laugh to break the tension and reduce your cortisol level! This video from Judson Laipply is one of my favorites. I dare you to watch it without feeling less stressed! Of course, it also delights the choreographer in me! Taking a moment to sit back, relax, and…

Protecting “Me Time” and Your Heart: Busy Woman’s Guide

Allowing your body to catch up with all you ask it to do is important! Recharging is essential, but sometimes it is difficult to get the time you need. Protecting your “Me Time” is important! Our family recently took a sailing vacation in the British Virgin Islands. It was wonderful to leave the cold of…

Get Some Shut-Eye: Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy New Year Tip #8

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” I hear the phrase from many friends. Perhaps it is the unofficial motto of busy women? How often do you sacrifice sleep to get something done? We all do it, stay up a little later, get up a little earlier, or allow the worries of the day to creep in…

Unplug: Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy New Year Tip #5

Are you suffering from Electronic Induced Stress? Here are some ways to tell: If you cell phone has stopped being a convenience and has become a burden, interrupting your life and limiting your productivity… If turning off your phone makes you anxious and fearful of what you might miss… If your ear feels odd without…

Busy Woman’s Stress Management Tip: Take 10 at 10

When the clock reads 10:00 a.m. — take a break and lower your stress. Let’s face it, most days there is hardly time to go to the bathroom, much less take a moment to yourself! Yet, if you don’t give your body a chance to rest and recharge, the cortisol in your blood builds up…

Wine and Chocolate Recommendation

As you may know, I am a big fan of wine and chocolate as a stress remedy. But which wine and what chocolate you may ask. Red wine (white wine doesn’t supply the same benefits) doesn’t have to cost much to be good. Here are some of my favorites is usually available for under $15:…

Multitasking or Over-tasked?

As I prepared to begin a program for the Wisconsin Health Information Management Association last week, I realized I’d be speaking while they were eating lunch. “Don’t worry,” said one of the attendees, “we are great at multitasking.” So true, women are great at juggling more than one thing — which incidentally was the topic…

Celebrate Your Super Balls!

Every woman needs a Super Ball! The phone rings, you check the caller ID and smile. It’s her, the one friend you can count on to make you feel good, safe, valued, and you can’t wait to begin. Who is your Super Ball? In my program “Why Women Have Balls” I discuss the importance of…