Tiny Bites of Wagaliciousness

Do you have a team member with a sharp tongue? Some people don’t understand the power of words to inflict damage so they don’t watch what they say to others. At your next team meeting, suggest to everyone that if...

Poet Nick Laird wrote, “Time is how you spend your love.” It’s interesting, isn’t it, the concept of spending love. Time is a precious, priceless commodity – it is here and then it’s gone, never to return. We all have...

Did you fail at something today? Yay…because that means you’re one step closer to getting it right. Maybe you do this too – I feel dumb when I get something wrong. It feels stressful until I remember to re-frame it...

Moods are contagious – people can feel them even when no words are spoken. Our digestive system seems to do a lot more than just process our food. Researchers call it our enteric brain and are still studying what it...

When you think about the past, you’re thinking about it now. When you imagine the future, you’re imagining it now. Your brain reacts as if you’re living what it is you’re thinking about. Your mission, should you...

Your words are powerful. People count on your words to know what you’re feeling, know what they’re supposed to do as aftercare for their pet, know what they’re supposed to do as their job – the list goes on. Words are...

Loss is inevitable. Everything that lives eventually stops living – no exceptions to that have been discovered on Planet Earth yet. Loss is inevitable, so why does it sometimes feel so personal? “If I’d taken better...

Feeling like an imposter today? What does that even mean? I mposter syndrome crops up for most people at some point in their lives, often when learning something new or doing something that you haven’t done many...

Just because you’re related to them, it doesn’t mean they can run rough-shod all over you. Do you have a family member who violates your boundaries? Ask yourself, “would I accept this kind of behavior from a client?”...

Do you feel like a compassionate person? This is a pretty stupid question to ask you, I know – you do what you do from a deep sense of compassion. So when you make a mistake, where does your compassion go? When you...

Resiliency is a muscle you can build. It’s the ability to adapt to new situations. You’ve done that your whole life. Resiliency is gracefully letting go of the things you can’t control. OK, for most of us, this one is...

Can you ignore someone’s poor behavior? How about ignoring someone’s annoying behavior? When you learn to ignore things that ordinarily set you off, you’re learning to create your own inner peace. When you allow...