Happy New Year, SynerLINK Friends,
In honor of the new year, I invite you to explore the role “busy-ness” plays in your life. I recently enjoyed Brene Brown’s book “Daring Greatly” and highly recommend you check it out. This month’s lead resource is an interview with Dr. Brown explaining a little-recognized role of being busy, exhausted, and constantly swamped. Are you using “crazy busy” as a numbing strategy to deal with difficult emotions? If so, what changes can you make in 2014 that will help you embrace your own whole-heartedness?
Colorado friends, keep an eye out for announcements of several upcoming events in Boulder in February and March. Details coming soon!
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Best wishes for your health and happiness,
Chanel Helgason, MD
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
-Jack Kornfield.
THIS MONTH’S LINKS
Article of the Month:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/exhaustion-is-not-a-status-symbol/2012/10/02/19d27aa8-0cba-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story.html
What not to do in 2014…
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/14-habits-highly-miserable-people
The case for vitamins and minerals – more complex than it may appear at first glance.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-r-gaby-md/vitamins-study_b_4481739.html
Women in the media 2013. What do you think of this analysis? (Some images not suitable for children.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NswJ4kO9uHc
Communicating with men, for women.
http://goodmenproject.com/the-good-life/why-we-as-women-need-to-ease-up-on-men/
A powerful essay on how we choose to die – and live.
http://nypost.com/2012/12/09/diary-of-an-intensive-care-nurse/
An important, thoughtful article that asks important questions about how the pharmaceutical industry affects psychiatric diagnosis and practice.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/health/the-selling-of-attention-deficit-disorder.html?_r=0
8 creative ways to support work-life balance.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/18/best-places-to-work_n_4240370.html
A truly touching display of empathy from a high school football team toward a disabled youngster.
http://www.upworthy.com/watch-an-entire-team-of-teenage-football-players-do-something-very-unexpected?c=ufb2
Go ahead – curl up with a good book this winter. It’s good for your brain!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2529855/How-book-really-change-life-Brain-function-improves-DAYS-reading-novel.html
A BIT OF HUMOR
Great advice from the creator of Calvin and Hobbes
http://www.boredpanda.org/inspirational-advice-from-bill-watterson-in-comic-strip-form/
