Hello Reader! This week, we're exploring letting things go! Everything from past regrets to difficult people in our lives, I've been contemplating how much time and peace I get back when I say to myself, "What if this didn't matter to me?" This week has also been a time to catch up on summer with swimming, bike riding, and, of course, coding. We had a lovely trip to the mountains last week to visit family, but now's the time to live up the rest of summer! Feel I used my 90-second Dual...
13 days ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader! After a busy holiday weekend, I hope you had some time to yourself. A chance to really relax. However you like to, whether that's unplugging, reading, or bingeing shows or video games with friends and family. I hope you had time to enjoy guilt-free fun and relaxation! Feel My kiddo said something over the weekend that gave me an eerie sense of connection with him. After watching the 4th of July fireworks, he said, "Well, summer's almost over." Almost over? I thought about the...
20 days ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader! This week we're diving into the latest in working through anxiety, stopping negative self-talk, and where to go to add the most up-to-date skills to your resume. We survived the heat wave with our barely-working AC and I'm ready to get moving in this cooler weather! Feel After reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, a natural progression is to Anxiety RX by Dr. Russell Kennedy. A medical doctor who's battled anxiety his entire life, Dr. Kennedy goes deeper than...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader! After 18 years, we finally need a new air conditioner. We're getting bids from companies this week. After major sticker shock, I'm now just exhausted 😩 Feel I'm an angry crier. Always have been and probably always will be. But the worst place by far to cry was always at work. Being seen as over-emotional just because my voice would catch, drove me nuts. I still cry when I get really frustrated or mad but now I know how to process my feelings before it comes to that. Most of the...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader! This week we're adding playwriting, cake baking, and volleyball to the schedule. I hope your summer is in full swing! Feel I've been working on my own 7-day email course for processing emotions in 90 seconds. Based on the research of Harvard neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, the method combines her research of the chemical reaction in our body lasting for 90 seconds with a physical anchor to bring awareness to your body. So half of your attention is on feeling the emotion...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader! We're one full week into summer and my brain's already fried! Between getting a week-and-a-half long cold on the last day and tons of rain Memorial Day week, it hasn't felt much like summer but this introverted mama is talked out 😂 Kids are golfing, acting, and swimming (when it's sunny!) while working on one's online t-shirt & sticker store and the other's trying to build their first app. I'm squeezing in my own reading and working wherever I can! So let's jump in! Feel Dr....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader! I've been trying to write 2 newsletters for some time now. First, The Bookletter and then HR Kate. And it doesn't seem to matter which one I'm working on, I find something for the other one. So I decided why not combine both? When working with my HR clients the biggest problem I have isn't whether they have good resume experience or the proper LinkedIn profile; it's whether or not they believe they deserve more. All of the latest job search and social media hacks won't do a...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Hello Reader! Things keep coming up and sliding the Bookletter to later in the week but I at least got it done! I will try to get it to you all earlier next week. Stay warm! Close Your Eyes, Get Free I first listened to Grace Smith on the Kate Northrup Podcast: Unlocking Financial Abundance with Hypnotherapy With Grace Smith and I was so fascinated that I had to read her book. Hypnotism has such a stigma attached to it that I couldn't help but be intrigued. What is hypnotism if not a parlor...
6 months ago • 1 min read
Happy New Year Reader! I hope you had an enjoyable holiday season. It felt like it went by at 100mph here! But the kids are back to school and I've got a few HR clients to work with so we're getting back into the routine. Hope for Cynics Winter can be a rough time for a lot of people and especially this January. Last fall, I found an interesting read for my inner pessimist. Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science on Human Goodness by Dr. Jamil Zaki was a thought-provoking read that provides...
7 months ago • 1 min read