guilt

guilt

Needing to be Needed

Joy Mazzola, July 15, 2010

The other day, a totally brilliant colleague likened self-care to the oxygen mask drill on airplanes – specifically, the part about always affixing our own mask before assisting others. In other words, if your own ability to take a breath is compromised, how in the world can you be of service to anyone else? “Basically, if you don’t take care of yourself,” she told a client, “the rest of us are hosed.”

Not All Women are Natural Mothers

Heather Sobieralski, June 10, 2010

The beginning

I was so sick. I had been vomiting every day, several times a day for about a week. If I wasn't running to the bathroom I was laying on the couch unable to function as a result of this strange "June Flu." This flu of mine was so severe that I had even called off work a few times in the last two weeks AND this flu was so body altering that I wasn't even getting my period.

Get Your To-Do List Done, One Piece at a Time

Guest Author, May 21, 2010

Dear Pinkies, please welcome back my Pink Mommy Trish Rankin here with a cool idea for putting a bit of balance back into our lives.

Today I'm taking a "pieces day:" a day to do everything I haven’t had time to do, to pick up the pieces that I’ve left around because I am overscheduled. But aren’t we all? When we leave unfinished work, we tend to add guilt to our long list of tasks and issues. None of us needs guilt. Plus, when have things left on our plate at the end of the day, it can be hard to sleep, which further drains us of mojo.