Healthy Living

Self-Care At Work: Tips for Cultivating Passion and Meaning

I was listening to the CBC radio and a local (BC) kindergarten teacher was interviewed as a result of winning the Teacher of the Year Award granted by a Canadian family magazine. As I listened, I was moved by her passion for her work.

Christine Maslach, a researcher in the area of burnout prevention, found that the more passionate you are about your work, the less stress you are likely to experience and the greater capacity you have for managing the stress that inevitably exists. With your self-care, well-being and career satisfaction in mind, here are a few tips for connecting with your passion at work:

Engage with genuine enthusiasm -- the teacher being interviewed, as mentioned above, spoke with such enthusiasm for her students, their potential, and her role as a kindergarten teacher. You could hear her smile as she spoke. The interviewer asked her how long she had been teaching, she said, "sixteen years." What part of your work are you extremely enthusiastic about? What gets you excited within your work? What could you get excited about?

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Lynda Monk, our official Self-Care Expert

Checking In With The LIGHT

The times we are living in are filled with amazingly complex opportunities, changes, information, and choices. Every option is open—multitudes of offerings from a table of abundance, shattering our confidence in history, tradition and ritual as a form of absolute and personal direction.

In such a maze, confusion can thwart our ability to trust ourselves. Perhaps suffering from past experiences warns we could use a little help making better choices. It has never been more essential that we have a personal guidance system in place, something we can trust to lead us into safe havens, places where our efforts will reward us with returns such as safety, peace, happiness, and love.

Trusting spirit is a process you don’t want to miss out on, and through this website, I invite and guide you to experience what it feels like to literally be in the light.

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Judy Hansen, our official Guided Meditations Expert

Take Care Of Your Body

Well, the first days of summer have begun, and now more than ever we all want to look our best!

If you are not 100% happy with the look, shape and feel of your body, food can become a source of discomfort, confusion and consequences rather than a vehicle for nourishment and enjoyment.

“When you have a poor body image, you may be driven to diet, have difficulty enjoying food and restrict your food intake in unhealthy ways,” says Susan Albers, PsyD, a clinical psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic and author of Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food.

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Rita Canada, our official Natural Health/Weight Management for Executives and Entrepreneurs Expert

Increase Balance: 3 Tips for Connecting With What Matters Most To You

Most people crave more balance, which I interpret as a desire for more control over their lives and circumstances. At the heart of balanced living, is the ability to align with what really matters most to you in the many key areas of your life including your work/career, relationships, health, and dreams. Often we need a little time, space and support to connect with what we truly want. So often, life can take us into a frenetic whirl of activity, filled with long lists of things to do and somewhere along the way we can get disconnected from what matters most.

Here are three tips for increasing balance by connecting with what matters most to you:

Pause and reflect - the first step in reconnecting with what matters most to you is to pause and reflect - ask yourself "what is it that really matters most to me in my life at this time?"

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Lynda Monk, our official Self-Care Expert