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Hope, Optimism, and Personal Growth: Navigating Life Adjustments Amidst Uncertainty
As the world continues to grapple with unprecedented life changes, the importance of personality development courses and the principles they teach come to the forefront. Mary Jo Faustgen, provides a deep dive into this subject, offering listeners tangible strategies and reflections for personal and professional growth in uncertain times. For the non-readers out here Beginning […]
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Navigating An Emotional Hangover by Brit Barkholtz
When I was in college, a classmate published a piece in our student newspaper about his 10 best tips to manage a hangover. There was some back-and-forth in the letters to the editor over the next few weeks arguing about how it would be better to just do whatever you needed to do to prevent […]
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The Long Run of Trauma Recovery
There’s an old joke that asks, “How can you tell if someone is a runner?” And the answer is, “Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.” Harsh, but fair. As a runner, I do talk about it a lot, and most people who know me know there’s almost no situation I can’t come up with SOME type of running […]
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Maybe She’s Born With It, Maybe It’s Executive Dysfunction
Procrastination gets a bad rap because it’s associated with the idea of “laziness” and is seen as simply choosing to delay doing an unpleasant task. And, sure, sometimes procrastination is consciously choosing to delay an unpleasant task (glances over at the “clean the bathroom” part of my to-do list) but it’s often not that simple. Procrastination can be a part of a larger struggle known as executive dysfunction, which includes difficulty with planning, problem solving, memory, task initiation, motivation, focus, task completion, etc.
