How Focusing on Belonging and Meaning Help You Thrive We all have a need to feel understood, to give and receive affection, and find our people. In other words, we need to feel we belong. In her book The Power of Meaning, Emily Esfahani Smith says that two conditions...
How Nature and Flourishing Go Hand in Hand (Even If You’re Not “Outdoorsy”) Time spent in nature is essential to me. The ocean, redwood trees, kettle ponds, and wildflowers … these things fill me with joy and awe and gratitude. When I’m overwhelmed or out of sorts, I...
Flourishing, Not Languishing —3 Steps You Can Take Today If languishing wasn’t part of your vocabulary before, you might have encountered it during the pandemic. Adam Grant wrote about the blah feeling many of us were experiencing, but languishing (or its opposite...
Journal with Me: Flourishing As we come back to “normal” you have some choice as to what you want normal to look like. What do you want to add into your day (and what do you want to eliminate)? Last week I wrote about the idea of FLOURISHING. What does that mean?...
How Do You Flourish During Transitions? This past weekend my husband and I were fortunate to be able to attend our youngest son’s graduation from college. Just a month ago we were told that we couldn’t attend or even be on campus. So being there was a huge treat and...