Categories : Wellness
Your Friendly Reminder During Gala Season and Beyond
By Pauline Villanueva
If you’re reading this, stop.
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Harnessing Neutral Accountability to Improve Your Well-being
By Megan M. Moore, Attorney Career and Business Coach
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Fuel for Thought: How Energy Management Affects Your Engagement and Enjoyment
By Marta Manus
Now more than ever, our attention is pulled in a thousand different directions throughout the day, and it’s easy to mindlessly move through each day. We all have a finite level of energy. Think of your energy as a magnetic field that informs your perspective in every aspect of your life. It is the lens through which you view the world and your perspective and attitude. Understanding how your energy affects your engagement in life and how you show up is key to being more productive, increasing your overall wellbeing, and being more effective and engaged in your personal and professional life. You may not be in control of the external things that are going on in your life, but you can change the energy, or perspective, with which you experience these things. This is where your power lies. Your power lies in your ability to change the lens through which you experience life.
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Imposter Syndrome or Systemic Racism at Work?
I am fascinated by the concept of imposter syndrome. I frequently do meditations on combating imposter syndrome and took an Insight Timer course on overcoming it. This concept was introduced in 1978 in an article titled “The Imposter Phenomenon in High Achieving Women: Dynamics and Therapeutic Intervention” by Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes. Imposter syndrome refers to people who doubt their achievements, despite being accomplished. There is a real fear that they will be found out as a fraud and their achievements were based on luck and not hard work and skill.
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STOP
By Heidi Weaver
Usually when I read an article or attend an event in the Wellness space, I come away with a to-do list of helpful action items that I have every intention of trying to implement in my busy life to improve my wellbeing. But we all know that adding stuff to your to-do list can be overwhelming, which can of course have a deleterious effect on your health and wellness.
Living Without Apology 
By Tatiana Kline, Deputy Public Defender
This inspiration for this month’s Coaches Corner comes from a talk by Kemi Nekvapil titled “Step Into Your Power & Live Without Apology.” Given that March is Women’s History Month, I wanted to share this talk with the SDCBA community. I invite you to LISTEN HERE.
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Feeling Stressed? The Wellness Subcommittee Has Resources for You
By Megan M. Moore, Attorney Career and Business Coach
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Do Something Different — Every Day
By Amy J. Lepine
At this time of year when everybody’s making New Year’s resolutions and setting goals, big and small, I’m making a vow to do something different every day. It’s a resolution I can keep, and one that will be good not only for my head, but also for my general well-being.
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It’s OK if You Don’t Feel Joyful During the Holidays
By Julie Thorpe-Lopez
Paradoxically, the pressure to be joyful during the holidays sometimes eviscerates the actual experience of joy. In addition to the regular stress of our jobs, family, and personal obligations, we are bombarded with pressures to celebrate, whether we actually celebrate a particular holiday or not. Adding to this already overflowing plate of stress is traveling or hosting guests, shopping, financial pressures, and spending time with extended family — with whom we may or may not positively connect. When things don’t go the way the holidays look in commercials or on social media (most of which is really unachievable unless your profession is “TV producer” or “social media influencer”), we feel a sense of failure. When our kids are going bananas without a regular school routine for three or four weeks, we feel like we are blowing it as parents. Plus, we’ve all endured a years-long pandemic and have been in fight-or-flight adrenaline overload for much longer than humans were made to endure. We still have tremendous political divisiveness permeating the media — another stressor that crops up with the extended family time we are expected to put in. It’s no surprise that joy and peace don’t always come easily during this time.
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Coaches Corner: End of the Year Time & Energy
By Megan M. Moore
In moments of stress or frustration, you might notice you don’t want to feel this way and then double down by telling yourself that you shouldn’t feel this way, or that you got yourself into this mess to begin with. Now you’re feeling stressed and bad about yourself. Sound familiar?