Wellness Pearls Blog

Keeping Promises to Ourselves

Apathy is feeling indifferent about what is going around you.  It can often travel with depression, but apathy does not include feelings of hopelessness, sadness...
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The Wisdom of Hopelessness

Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities...
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Ride the Wave: Costa Rican Surfers and Wellbeing

Right now, the growth edge I’m working on is learning to become less reactive to everything: unplanned events, weather, traffic, difficult people, politics, taxes, insects,...
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What are you Accountable for?

You must change your life.                                         ...
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The Butterfly VS the Moth

Top Photo: Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing, the world s largest species of butterfly, wingspan reaching 1 foot. Found only in the forests of Papua New Guinea....
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Anger can Illuminate

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.    The Dalai Lama I saw an explosive interaction between...
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Prioritize Your Priorities

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live. – Sidney Poitier Work-life balance comes up a lot....
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How to Talk (or not) to People in Distress

Like a pebble dropped into a pond, circles radiate outward from the center of the situation. Which circle are you in? Recently, I witnessed a...
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Resilience is not a Trait

It’s a relationship one has with their resources (Cavanaugh, 2021).   Sure, our internal characteristics help us access those outside resources.  But one can be as...
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