April is National Stress Awareness Month. It’s the time where health professionals focus on how stress shows up in our lives and what we can do about it. It’s also a time where terms like “stress management” and “wellness” show up in training videos. When I work with clients on “Stress Management”, they generally start […]
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This past week I spent my mornings in Osaka, Japan, and my afternoons at home. How did I accomplish this? Virtual conferencing! This bi-annual in-person conference was originally scheduled for May 2020. As the date drew near, the organizers optimistically pushed it to mid-October, hoping the pandemic would have subsided to allow us to travel
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I find it beneficial to find someone in my tribe who is just a little bit further along in their journey than I am. These tribe members act like pathfinders by looking back on their own path and, with a certain amount of introspection, let me know about pitfalls or advice that can help me on
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On every single college tour we participate in, we are told “Your numbers do not define you.” Raise your hand if you think that’s the absolute truth. Anyone? <crickets> Until the day that this is the absolute truth, its best to hedge our bets and get a number that reflects who you are. SAT Accelerate
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I find it beneficial to find someone in my tribe who is just a little bit further along in their journey than I am. These tribe members act like pathfinders by looking back on their own path and, with a certain amount of introspection, let me know about pitfalls or advice that can help me on
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I find it beneficial to find someone in my tribe who is just a little bit further along in their journey than I am. These tribe members act like pathfinders by looking back on their own path and, with a certain amount of introspection, let me know about pitfalls or advice that can help me on
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It’s the new normal: online meetings instead of face-to-face, texting/emailing to get a meeting with your students instead of them stopping by your office, and how the heck do you run an experiment when they shut down the campus? In my brief forays into social media (more on that another time), I have seen some
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“Who the hell cares about air entrainment by vortices right now?” This is the question that ran around my brain as I sat down to work last Tuesday morning. It felt like a very legitimate question with a very unappealing (but logical) answer: “Your funding agency”. My husband then voiced the same thing on Wednesday
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If you could go back in time and whisper something to your grad-student self, what would it be?
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I find it beneficial to find someone in my tribe who is just a little bit further along in their journey than I am. These tribe members act like pathfinders by looking back on their own path and, with a certain amount of introspection, let me know about pitfalls or advice that can help me on
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