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). …
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 …
Rebecca–Things that Make Me Happy. Why Did You Come To This Planet? Early Morning ContemplationsRebecca and her husband, KC, live out West in Arizona but they work on East Coast time. Each morning they get up at the crack of dawn and start the day with a warm cuppa to watch the sun rise (Rebecca with a fresh decaf green …
What Did You Think Was So Cool About Coming to This Life? Click to Read Post »
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 …
Rebecca–Three Good Things–Structure, Health, Comfort, Yoga If you do nothing else for your wellbeing today, do the “three good things” exercise: Write down three things that have gone well in your day, big or small. Why? Because it makes you happier. Even if you write just one thing that you feel good about, it helps overcome the negativity bias which, …
If You Do Nothing Else, Do This: The Three Good Things Exercise Click to Read Post »
Julia–Ambiguous Losses (and Gains) During a family zoom call (a ritual many of you may be familiar with), Rebecca’s little sister Julia and her best-friend Katy voiced that even though there seemed to be “a light at the end of the tunnel” with COVID, there is a still a sense of disorientation as we slowly emerge from the last year …
MLK, Jr. Making a Peace Sign After Passing of the Civil Rights Bill 1964 “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” It’s February. That means Black History month. It means the month of love. It’s …
Annie’s Vision Board 2020 is over!! Wouldn’t it be nice if the devastation that came with it was over too?! Sadly, it isn’t—we are still losing loved ones to the pandemic, there is still political strife pretty much everywhere, and the path to recovery will not be easy. Gioia, usually the optimist here at CWW, was feeling a bit discouraged and …
2020 Was Such a Crappy Year! The Year in Review and Vision Boards Click to Read Post »
Valkiss (back left) and His Mother and Siblings Rather than trying to neatly summarize this difficult year which has challenged our humanity in so ways or trying to deliver witty lessons that should be extracted from that hardship, we have chosen to end the year with a bittersweet story about a dog named Valkis, his owners Kyle, Carolyn, and George, …
Valkiss the German Shepherd and His owner Kyle Get Our Final Words for 2020 Click to Read Post »
Coloring panel of Rebecca’s Grande Agave Coloring Sheet With the heightened stress of the recent elections and the resurgence of the virus converging with the upcoming holidays, we’ve been asked to write more on coping with COVID. One of our favorite stress reducing strategies is coloring. This is perhaps not surprising, since this is one of Rebecca’s passions and she illustrated …
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