Take one small step: Make Sunday nights a pleasure

Take one small step: Make Sunday nights a pleasure

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that my favorite self-care activities include journaling and a gratitude practice. When I coach clients, they receive a 30-day journaling prompt page and if relevant, a recommendation to start their own gratitude practice. I believe in the power of daily doing to make habits […]

Take one small step: Take mental health hours

Take one small step: Take mental health hours

Instead of a mental health day, what if you take some mental health hours? From dinner time onwards, switch your phone into airplane mode. Switch it back on when you wake up in the morning. Then savor analog pleasures, such as playing a board game with your kids, taking out the watercolor palettes that have […]

Take one small step

Take one small step

Happiness is a choice. It’s easy to say but hard to do…especially when you’re feeling envious of all the travel photos on Instagram, when your boss has just reprimanded you, when you’re experiencing heartbreaking loss. “Happiness is a choice” doesn’t mean just a shift to positive thoughts, to “good vibes lang” amidst difficult challenges.  It means that […]