Sustainable Practices for Environmental Leaders
Hang on a Minute! Series
How to Partner with Your Intuition
Intuition is the unique ability to comprehend something instantly without conscious reasoning. It is often referred to as a “gut feeling,” an innate sense of knowing, even...
Stress Busters for Environmental Stewards
How Our Emotions Trigger Chemical Reactions
Our bodies have about 100,000 chemical reactions every second. We’ve all heard about stress chemicals—when we are stressed, we create more cortisol and adrenaline, which can weaken our immune...
Stress Busters for Environmental Stewards
Stop Losing Your Mind!
Sensory overload is commonplace for most of us, but you can calm your mind by learning the art of meditation. Meditation trains the brain for optimal well-being and performance by creating new neural pathways in your brain. Building...
Stress Busters for Environmental Stewards
How to Keep Fear in Check
Fear is a natural emotion that all humans experience in response to perceived danger or threat. Our “old mammalian brain-“-the paleomammalian-- is responsible for subconscious emotions, such as fear. Fear can be...
Stress Busters for Environmental Stewards
What If… We Could Center Ourselves at Work?
What if…every employee responded to their anxieties, feelings of overwhelm or even anger at work by taking responsibility for their feelings by using some key techniques? By grounding or centering...
Stress Busters for Environmental Stewards
How toShapeYour Reality
Life has an uncanny way of presenting circumstances that are beyond our control. More often than not, we find ourselves as mere spectators to unfolding events. Yet, how we react to these moments defines our experience. Ever...
Stress Busters for Environmental Stewards
How Pets Can Be Our Thermometers
Are you a pet owner? Do your furry companions pick up on your moods? Allow me to introduce Beans, my insightful 7-year-old rescued cat, the most perceptive member of my rescued animal family, which...
Stress Busters for Environmental Stewards
What If… We Could Stop Ourselves from Suffering?
Our negative thoughts and emotions cause us to suffer. The Dalai Lama stated in his book, An Open Heart, “As long as we are under their control, our very existence is a form of...
Stress Busters for Environmental Stewards
What If… We Could Thrive During the Climate Crisis?
In the midst of our climate crisis, what if we could not just survive, but flourish? I recently stumbled upon the term “Eco-anxiety.” While it has yet to be formally diagnosed, climate...
Stress Busters for Environmental Stewards
How to Take a Sustainable Quantum Leap
In physics, a quantum leap refers to a sudden and discontinuous change in the state of a quantum system, such as an atom or a subatomic particle. A quantum leap occurs when a particle transitions from one energy...
Stress Busters for Environmental Stewards
Why Are You Here?
Have you ever wondered why you are here, what is your purpose? This question has intrigued philosophers, theologians, and seekers of wisdom throughout the ages. One perspective asserts that our purpose is the pursuit of meaning and...
Stress Busters for Environmental Stewards
Who Are You Becoming?
Like Marianne Williamson said in her poem, Our Greatest Fear, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” When you take a good look at yourself, what do you...
