Author: Wilkinson Rebecca

Last week, during a rare lighthearted exchange in an otherwise understandably serious and sadly often contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Senator Hirono of Hawaii asked the Judge how she tended to the creative side of her life. Judge Brown Jackson, the first African-American Woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court,  replied that she had …

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Rebecca Doing the Year in Review Exercise with KCRebecca and her husband, KC, had to drive a car across country last week.  To pass the time on the long and tedious journey, Rebecca forced her husband to go through the “Year in Review” exercise that we suggest for our clients.  This involves listing things that we accomplished and that impacted …

Why Bother Doing a Year In Review After All Nothing Happened?! Click to Read Post »

Rebecca Heart over Chaos

Did You Forget?For those of you who know Rebecca, you know she and identical twin sister Jenny bicker all of the time.   After one of many heated arguments with Jenny, Rebecca called her husband KC in tears.  Initially he comforted her but then, when she launched into righteous indignation at her sister’s outrageous behavior, he said “Did you forget…?  Did …

Did You Forget That You Were Going to Die? Click to Read Post »

Gioia–How to Be Happier Concrete Steps to Improve Positivity Myers Briggs Feelers/Positive or Negative Feelings?Gioia and Rebecca are both Feelers on the Myers Briggs Personality Type. In fact, Gioia and Rebecca have the exact same profile—Extrovert/Intuitive/Feeler/Perceiver (ENFP).  However, where they differ is that Gioia is prone to positive emotions (joy, connection, contentment, energy) and Rebecca negative ones (anxiety, guilt, anger). …

HowTo Feel Better When You Don’t Click to Read Post »

Rebecca–Other People Concrete Steps to Cultivate Being Mindful I Can’t Be Non-Judgmental!Jane, one of Rebecca’s clients, was in tears the other day because she has been trying to practice mindfulness but, as she put it, “it’s impossible for me to be non-judgmental and accepting when I’m trying to meditate.  I can’t seem to stop my mind from second guessing whether …

How to Actually Practice Mindfulness Click to Read Post »

Eric Murangwa, MBE, Our Rwandan Friend

Eric Murangwa Interviewing Eric Murangwa, Survivor of the Genocide in RwandaAs part of work that Rebecca is doing with the World Bank Group on stress management, burnout prevention, and resilience, Rebecca had the honor of interviewing her friend and colleague Eric Murangwa, MBE, a Tutsi Rwandan who survived the genocide that devastated his people and his country in 1994. What …

How Our Friend Eric Murangwa, Survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against The Tutsi in Rwanda, Forgives Click to Read Post »