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2012 Health & Wellness Goals

Usually at the end of a year I take some time to reflect on my accomplishments and some time to look toward the New Year. I have always generated goals based on the accomplishments of the previous year and the achievements I desire for the year to come. I have learned from the field...

Acceptance

Health is a complicated matter in that it is both a general concept but health is also about each and every moment and choice. The trick of health, I believe, is to make healthy choices the majority of the time. I look at it like a bank account. If you put money...

Plate Tectonics

For the last few months my stress level has been acceptable. I know this because my usual symptoms of stress have not been present in my life. But recently, over the last couple days, I have started to feel a low hum of stress, due to conflict at work, the New Year approaching,...

Cooking With Your Kids

Have you ever met someone who just intuitively knows how to cook? They know how to use new ingredients and spices in combinations they have never tried before and the food comes out yummy. They feel at home in the kitchen, regardless of whose kitchen it is. They go to the grocery...

Passivity vs. Aggressiveness

 

Reaction to conflict is a gigantic topic.  Conflict response preference is really a discussion of your way of being in the world.  It can take years to develop a reaction style that feels both comfortable to you and also gets your needs me.  The reason I say...

Dreaming Well

 

One of my clients asked me this week about some dreams that she is continually having. She asked me to interpret them for her because she wanted to know what they meant. It seemed what she really wanted was to be able to fix them so they would stop. I told her that...

Sample ReallyBeU Plan (3 month program for increased energy)

I thought it might be of interest to see how ReallyBeU builds a plan for an individual client.

Individual Program, 3 month program (16 weeks, 8 meetings)

Strengths/Supports/Motivators:

Background & Notes:

Strengths: "ReallyBeU Client has successfully...

The Healthy Couple by the Reservoir

simple pleasures

This morning on an early walk around the reservoir by my house I saw a couple sitting on the bench. They were older, both with white hair and moving more slowly. I was walking by and the sun had just come up and was sparkling on the water. They were wearing very well worn clothes, soft t-...

Looking for a Health Buddy

How to choose a healthy friend

A mentor once told me that you can only know the parts of yourself that you share with someone else.  At the time, I remember thinking how wise that sounded but I was deep in my period of inauthenticity and fear and I certainly was not going to tell him the truth about my pain,...

Body Scan for Awareness

mindfulness

The first step in preparing for change, whether it be a small change like realizing that the clothes you are wearing are not comfortable to a large change like leaving a relationship or a job is awareness that a change is needed.  With awareness we can move away from denial or ignorance...

Everyone's Healthy is Different

definition of health

We say the word health often and most times we do not define what we mean.  It is assumed that there is an understanding amongst us all of what health is.  Today I met a woman whom on first interaction, by my definition, I would say has some health concerns.  She is...

What is Healthy but also Fun?

healthy fun

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better." ...