Discover practical tools for personal leadership training in healthcare — learning how to make aligned decisions, build resilience in high-pressure settings, and choose response over reaction through embodied awareness. Moving From Your Internal Yes If you work in healthcare, you know that requests come fast. And sometimes with incomplete information, conflicting needs, and emotional intensity […]

The Hidden Cost of Uncertainty in Healthcare If you work in healthcare, you already know this: the hardest part isn’t always the long hours or the full caseload. It’s that you never really know what’s coming next. Will your shift stay calm or turn into a storm? Will the world outside your hospital walls throw

What Does It Even Mean to “Be” Instead of “Do”? You know that feeling when you finish one thing, and your mind’s already sprinting to the next? When you’re three “to-dos” ahead? That’s doing. It probably sounds familiar. And productive, right? And . . . at times exhausting. When you spend a lot of your

Authenticity: The daily practice of letting go of who we think we are supposed to be and embracing who we are. – Brené Brown Wear your Heart on Your Sleeve Where do you wear your heart? Out in the open as an easy tell for how you’re feeling or what you’re thinking? Or more of

“It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.” — Lech Walesa Making Sense of Frustration Frustration is a sensation that can take over your mind and body completely. It arises quickly, unexpectedly, and often in situations that you aren’t able to escape. You need to finish what

How can your system be comfortable with saying no in such a way that it works for you and it works for the other person?

“You can do anything, but not everything.” David Allen Knowing Your Limits Do you know when you’ve had enough? Or better yet, are you aware that you are reaching your limit before you get out of balance and have gone beyond your tipping point? Our positive thinking perspective tells us we can do it all.

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” Virginia Woolf The Law of Avoidance Last month we explored the Law of Attraction in our Embodiment Lab. This time we will look at the unavoidable counterpart: The Law of Avoidance. Like we did last time, we used the pendulum as our vehicle for exploring embodied awareness. We

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. – The Rolling Stones In one of his teachings, Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi uses a pendulum to illustrate a truth many intuitively know: the moment we start grasping for something—or pushing it away—we

“Trust is being comfortable with the unknown combined with hope – an optimistic perspective.” Trust is a big word Trust runs deep in our nervous system. It’s one of the earliest embodied experiences we develop — often before we even have words to describe it. And yet, when we talk about trust, our focus tends