Midwife of Changes

https://www.empowher.com/community/share/national-nurses-week-2012-free-teleclass-focuses-wellbeing-through-positive Please help me spread the word so nurses can learn more about this empowering ...

Advocacy, Leadership and Caring - That is the theme for this year's National Nurses Association Nurses Week 2012. When I was teaching nursing full-time, it was a time of celebration and student ...

Hi everyone - It has been awhile since I posted here. Life happens to us all - employment changes, a concussion and a little hyperthyroidism. Resilience happens - and I wanted to share my ...

Pregnancy is an incredible time in the lives of women and families. Inside the womb lies our hopes for the future . . . the world seems so full of hope. During my twenty years of birth practice ...

Postpartum depression is, to this day, one of the most frightening experiences I have ever encountered. I was always the happy-go-lucky optimist in the family . . . the resilient one who ...

Optimism is a fascinating strength. And, yes, it is considered a strength by strengths experts - like the Values in Action Institute. If you have not taken the free assessment, I encourage you to ...

It was two weeks ago today that I woke-up with a splitting headache. But the pain did not matter too much, because I was grateful to be awake and (other than the pain) pretty functional. The ...

Today is World Happy Day . . . a day where many hundreds of people learned a little more about the science of happiness and wellbeing from viewing a film called "Happy"! As the day started, I was ...

Today is World Happy Day . . . a day where many hundreds of people learned a little more about the science of happiness and wellbeing from viewing a film called "Happy"! As the day started, I was ...

Santa Claus came to town this past weekend and temps dropped about 25 degrees since then.  There is finally snow . . . and ice.  It is beautiful.  I love to walk main street in ...

We have probably all had those days were everything seems to downward spiral . . . we oversleep which leads to us being late for work . . . the boss is mad . . . we get a headache . . . we yell ...

These dancing Christmas elephants are a symbol of happiness I had never really thought of “purpose in life” as a component of happiness – until I took a positive psychology course from Martin ...

Resilience is the ability to bounce back from life's difficulties. And, my biggest health challenge to this day, is learning to bounce back from Graves' Disease.  My granddaughter bouncing ...

This is a video I created to answer that question for those who may be looking for support with lifestyle changes they want to make. http://youtu.be/HFxDTdFfrYQLet me know if you have ...

Home alone . . . for the holidays.  The whole world is talking about time and festivities with family.  Yet, in the midst of this connectedness with kin comes stunningly high ...

My Thanksgiving/Gratitude Blog Post - https://www.empowher.com/community/share/make-gratitude-adjustment-thanksgiving

Gratitude is a powerful, positive emotion.  My favorite part about Thanksgiving is that it is a day of gratitude!  In fact, I call it Gratitude Day.  Gratitude feeds on ...

Sleep is an important aspect of wellbeing. According the Gallup's Wellbeing book, "Getting a good night's sleep is like hitting the reset button." They go on to say that getting 7-8 hours of ...

Wellness - isn't that about diet and exercise? Yes. But there is more to wellness than health if we extend the definition to include wellbeing. Some of my favorite resources (including ...

I was in my mid-thirties when I first heard this line . . . during a lecture in my nurse-midwifery program. The instructor was a neonatal nurse practitioner who had, weeks earlier, taught us the ...

I love taking photos of Christmas decorations around my hometown of Montrose, Colorado. I make my own Christmas cards (creativity is a VIA strength of mine), so the photos are often used to ...

Optimism . . . the cup is half full! It is one of the 24 strengths that have been identified by positive psychologists. The Values in Action Institute defines it as: "Expecting the best ...

Welcome to Paradox, Colorado. A rural community in the West End of Montrose County, close to the Utah border. According to the folks at Blue Zones - "thriving" communities have the "Foundation ...

This is the scene that is before me as I make my next-to-last regular commute to Nucla, CO. I am approaching Ridgway - it is already getting dark. There is a huge full moon over the ...

This week, I had an ah-ha moment. My wellness coaching course assignment was to set a personal wellness goal that I could reach during the 12 weeks of the course. For over 5 years, I have ...

I noticed it when I was living down South for a few years . . . I put on 20 pounds. It was a combination of factors, I think. The South has fewer sidewalks and walking paths. Something I ...

Hello-I just joined this group. I am a nurse-midwife and also have Grave's disease. I have been treated with RAI, so am now technically hypothyroid. My diagnosis took place 3 years ago . . . my ...