Self-Care

Napping and Pzizz

Babies do it. Dogs do it. Cats spend most of their days doing it.
Napping. An almost forgotten art.
The funny thing is that many countries outside the U.S. take napping and resting seriously. I was lamenting to an Indian co-worker last week that Americans have forgotten how to relax in our push to get more [...]

Energy Sinkholes

Managing our energy is one task that working mothers face daily. Given the demands on us from both the office and home, we can quickly become drained. An article over at Lifehack.Org, The 7 Energy Sinkholes And How To Avoid Them, gives a good overview of what they are. I thought I would expand on [...]

5 Ways to Make Yourself Feel Pampered — in 5 Minutes or Less

As working moms, we have a lot of things on our plates. Far too often our self-care gets bumped so far down on the to-do list that we don’t ever get to it! Here are 5 ways to make yourself feel pampered, in 5 minutes or less
Hand Massage
Grab your handcream, or if you have none [...]

What Is Your passion?

The Inner Peace lesson this week talked about finding a passion-with-a-small-p and getting immersed in it. As I sat listening to my daughter’s piano lesson, I thought about her teacher. This wonderfully talented woman’s passion is piano. She teaches and performs, lives and breathes piano.
I wonder how many of us actually know what our Passion-with-a-capital-P [...]

How To Change Who You Are

I had a most interesting piece of text jump out at me recently. In the article Trimming the attention sails, the first line was simply:

You are what you pay attention to.

The article itself held some interest for me, as I had done the media fast and learned quite a bit about myself and what I [...]