Closing out 2020
Posted: January 1, 2021
As this year comes to a close, I am grateful. Honestly, I am just grateful for this year to be over and I am cautiously optimistic that 2021 will be better. It would be easy to slip into listing all the…
Posted: January 1, 2021
As this year comes to a close, I am grateful. Honestly, I am just grateful for this year to be over and I am cautiously optimistic that 2021 will be better. It would be easy to slip into listing all the…
Posted: December 21, 2020
So apparently Sadie does not know how to play frisbee. She actually accomplished this look all on her own! Seems like a metaphor for the year. There has been so much this year to cope with, to mourn, to adjust to. It’s been a lot.…
Posted: November 6, 2020
Those who are gentle and kind are this way despite the world. They are strong enough to be aware that each of us is fighting a battle they cannot see and to extend compassion and love to others. Sadie, my therapy dog and constant companion…
Posted: August 24, 2020
One strategy we’ve discussed for building resilience is developing an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ By putting into practice of noticing and reflecting on things for which you are grateful, this primes your mind to notice more things for which to be grateful. This is because our…
Posted: April 1, 2020
Need a break from all this talk of anxiety and epidemics? Me too. So here is Sadie taking time to stop and smell the freesias. It is important to our mental health to get outside and connect to earth and mother nature. Even if it…