by thetendingyear | Dec 15, 2019 | Coaching, Dissertation, Graduate School, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Project Management, Slow Living, Time Management, Writing
As promised in my previous Tending Letter, I owe you all some updates! Below, I’ll talk about what you can expect from the blog and newsletter, guides and workshops, and the thing I’m most excited about: my new coaching offerings! Goodbye weekly blog post. Hello...
by thetendingyear | Dec 9, 2019 | Habit formation, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Slow Living, Time Management, Values, Workaholism
I discussed the importance of reflection last week, and this week I’m walking my talk by sharing the top lessons I learned from writing The Tending Year in 2019. This post is inspired by a similar post last year, aptly called “Lessons from 2018,” where I reviewed my...
by thetendingyear | Dec 2, 2019 | Mindfulness, Personal Development, Slow Living, Values, Writing
Last December, I wrote a whole blog post called “Reflection: Whys and Hows,” where I broke down the practice of doing an end-of-year reflection and shared the journal prompts I use at the end of each year. For this year’s end-of-year reflection post, I’d like to...
by thetendingyear | Nov 25, 2019 | Habit formation, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Values
This is my last post for my Self-Esteem November, and although I don’t have a foolproof “Three Steps to Always Feel Awesome About Yourself” to show for it, I am sharing a question that I find helps guide me back to higher self-esteem when I falter: what happens when I...
by thetendingyear | Nov 18, 2019 | Habit formation, Mindfulness, Productivity, Project Management, Values, Workaholism
When I say “I’m proud of myself!” I feel incredible. More often than not, feeling proud of myself is linked to checking off my to-do list. While I’ve discussed at length the benefits I’ve found from using the Must-Do Method to differentiate potential to-do tasks from...
by thetendingyear | Nov 11, 2019 | Chronic Pain, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Spirituality
I’ve never liked the phrase “everything happens for a reason,” but it wasn’t until recently that I had a name for what felt so icky to me: spiritual bypassing. Psychotherapist John Welword defined spiritual bypassing in his book Toward a Psychology of Awakening as the...
