employee retention, engagement, and stress is about more than getting your ducks in a row.

What Are Your Three?

What Are Your Top Three Priorities? A key element of my program Juggling Stress: A Busy Woman’s Guide to Sanity and Health is naming and focusing on the three most important things in your life.  Understanding your priorities and evaluating decisions based on those priorities is essential to managing stress and maintaining your health. We…

How To Have a Low Stress Holiday Season

What are your 3 goals for this holiday season? The quick downhill run to the first of the year can be a stressful and healthy habit challenging period of time.  How do you keep holiday stress at bay, maintain your healthy habits, and enjoy the season more? Set some goals! That’s right! As odd as…

Are You Your Own Doormat?

I’m not a doormat! You may not let other people walk all over you, but are you allowing your commitments to walk all over your life and your health? Think about it… Do you put the needs of everyone and everything else ahead of your own needs? Do you take care of others before you…

Invitation to Woo Hoo! Busy Woman’s Guide to Stress Management

Have you Woo Hoo-ed today? You really should! Last night I finished Kim & Jason Kotecki’s new book There’s An Adult In My Soup. One of Kim’s chapters in entitled “Eeyore or Tigger” and discusses the sort of attitude we each can show the world.  I believe I am a Tigger by nature – bouncy,…

Weekly Whimsy: Sound of Music in Train Station

Okay – as a choreographer I find this just fascinating. People just suddenly begin dancing in a train station to Do Re Me from the Sound of Music. The participants practiced just a short while – simply amazing! Watch it twice – once for the spectacle and the second time for the bystander reactions! Enjoy…

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…

Choose Your Soundtrack: Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy New Year Tip #7

What makes up the soundtrack to your life? Have you ever noticed how movies and television shows use music to set the mood? There is a reason sports arenas blast rock music and the spa plays plinky-plunky quiet music. Are you using music to set your mood? Think about it. Are you listening to codependent…

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…

Reflect On What Is Important: Busy Woman’s Guide to a Healthy New Year Tip #4

Are you feeling like your projects, commitments, and obligations pulling your attention away from what is really important? Are you wondering exactly what is the point of all of this running around? Are you neglecting your health or giving up personal pleasures to fulfill other people’s priorities? Take a moment to think about what is…