27 Oct Meeting People Where They Are
When an 80-year-old patient was establishing primary care with my husband a few years ago, she ended the visit by saying, “I’m a hugger. May I give you a hug?”...
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20 Oct Perfect Teams
A few years ago, Google decided to investigate what skills, traits and backgrounds could be combined to engineer the perfect team. It turned out that it wasn’t about picking the...
13 Oct They See Something in Me
“We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.” - Carl Rogers The...
06 Oct Encouragement is Empowerment
Our local schools started several weeks ago. Almost every day on the drive home, I have been hearing stories from Ella about a boy in her class who is struggling...
29 Sep From Willpower to Skillpower
Habits are behaviors that play out without us needing to think much about them – things like brushing our teeth or putting on our seatbelt in the car. It’s surprising...
22 Sep Bring Something, Not Everything
When I was in fifth grade, my class read a book about magical castles. Our homework assignment was a group project: to make our own three-dimensional castles. My team of...