Caregiver Support
How not to fall off the identity cliff
When change happens, people often fall off an identity cliff. Here’s how to build identity resilience to thrive through change.
Resilience
This stressful election season affects us all
This stressful election season is permeating everything. Instead of amplifying the tension, be someone who cools it down.
Decisions
What gets attention grows; what gets neglected withers
What gets attention grows. That is, put your effort where you want results, not where it’s easiest or most convenient.
Life Fulfillment and Purpose
A minor perspective shift can make a big change
A simple perspective shift is the difference between a lawn and a meadow, and maybe between discord and harmony.
Caregiver Support
Personal boundaries matter. Here’s how to enforce them.
Enforce your personal boundaries because if you don’t, no one else will. Here’s why it’s important, and how to get better at it.
Life Fulfillment and Purpose
The Life Coach at the Death Cafe
Coming to peace with your own mortality is important for living your best life. Talking about death at a death cafe may help.
Career
Stuck in a web of bungee cords: ambivalence in decision making
Three ways to clarify your decision making when you feel like you’re stuck in a web of bungee cords pulling you in different directions.
Communication
They won’t remember anything before the “but”
The “oreo” method of feedback only works when there’s trust. Otherwise, people will discard anything you say before the “but.”
Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
Big announcement: new book on compassion fatigue
New book announcement and cover reveal! RELIT helps people overcome compassion fatigue. Due out November 13th.
Peter's Progress
Big announcement later this week
My normal weekly blog post will be deferred until later in the week, when I’ll be unveiling a project that has been in work for more than a year. It has been quite a learning journey as well as profoundly fulfilling from a personal perspective, and I know it will Read more