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Julia's Vision Board In Response to Her Year in Review

You may have already moved on from 2023, so why bother doing a “Year in Review”? Especially when the first thing that comes to mind might be either that “nothing happened” or “it was a horrible year!” So why bother? 1) Because we quickly forget our lives 2) Because when we do remember, the negativity bias is likely to highlight …

Year In Review 2023: How To Do The Review and Why Bother Click to Read Post »

Year In ReviewAt the end of every year we do an exercise–the “Year in Review”–going through the year and listing what impacted us and what we accomplished (click here for a hand out with instruction on doing a YIR). Bigger ReflectionsAs often happens with that exercise, it led to bigger reflections about where we’ve been and where we want to …

Take Aways on Happiness and Wellbeing/Why Positive Psychology Still Matters To Us (and You) Click to Read Post »

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 »

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 »

Rebecca–Sun Bath Coloring Sheet John Bradshaw, author of the seminal book Healing the Shame that Binds You, was one of the first people to introduce into modern vernacular the notion that we are Human BE-ings not Human DO-ings. This catchy expression has particular relevance to those of us who get so busy performing activities “out in the world” that we …

Human Beings versus Human Doings Click to Read Post »

Rebecca’s Year in Review on a Napkin Instead of making resolutions at the end of the year, we decided to do a review of what we had accomplished in 2016.  When we “interviewed” our family members (they are always the guinea pigs for the exercises we suggest to you here), we got responses such as “I didn’t really accomplish much” …

What Did You Do? Year in Review Click to Read Post »