3 Ways to Help Overcome Working Mom Guilt

Mia Barnes 01/20/2023

Working mom guilt is common when juggling your career, family and personal time and feeling like you’re short-changing your kids. Finding a work-life balance can be challenging in itself, let alone trying to find time to attend to your basic needs and practice self-care. It can take some time to adjust to parenting and having a career. Don’t let your feelings minimize your success — use these tips to combat working mom guilt and show yourself some love. 1. Choose Your Battles Your parenting may look different than other moms you know. Your situation is unique to you and your family, so don’t let others’ opinions get you down. Unsolicited advice can trigger guilt and cause you to feel shame for working — don’t let…

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Mia Barnes

4 Self-Care Practices to Disconnect from Work

As technology evolves, disconnecting from work often seems impossible and finding a healthy work-life balance is more difficult than ever.

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Gina Messina, Ph.D. 02/12/2024

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Mental performance and you: 10 things you need to know

Our mental performance, how we think, analyze, and perceive the world, influences how we work, tackle challenges, relate to others, manage stress and more. Where we choose to put our focus has a tremendous impact on how we feel and perform in our day-to-day lives. Julie Jones, Mental Performance Coach and Institute instructor, specializes in helping people boost their mental game, and in teaching them how mental training, positivity and self-awareness can help us do better in our jobs, our personal lives, as leaders, as athletes, and as members of the community. As a former Division I softball coach, Julie specializes in training athletes in mental performance techniques. The same brain strategies that can help a softball player improve her swing can help us all…

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Institute Editorial Team 08/02/2021

5 Exercises for Practicing Self-Compassion

Have you ever beat yourself up or said unkind words to yourself? If you’re like most of us, your answer is probably “yes.” Especially as women, we tend to be our own worst critics, and we usually treat ourselves in cruel ways that we’d never treat other people!But there’s a different way. Self-compassion is the practice of being kind and understanding with ourselves — not only when we succeed, but when we fail, too. Here, we’ve compiled 5 exercises you can use to start practicing self-compassion. These practices are based on extensive research by Dr. Kristin Neff, a psychologist who specializes in self-compassion. Try to incorporate them into your daily schedule as much as possible. You can use these 5 exercises at any time, day…

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Gina Messina, Ph.D. 02/28/2022

How Self Care Can Benefit Your Mental Health

Self-care is a term that describes taking care of your physical, mental and emotional well-being. It’s a common misconception that self-care is a luxury, not a priority. However, those who don’t prioritize self-care tend to feel overwhelmed, tired and burnt out. When you take the necessary steps and action to care for different areas of your life, your whole being will feel nurtured and refreshed. Why Self-Care Is Essential for Well-Being Throughout each day, you face stressors from work, life and whatever else may be going on. Self-care is about being healthy and finding behavior to incorporate into daily life to maintain good health and well-being. The practice of self-care is starting to grow. Anything that feels nourishing physically, mentally, emotionally, socially or spiritually can…

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Mia Barnes 02/15/2023

How to care for yourself while taking care of others

Caregivers, this is for you. Even before the pandemic, more than 16% of the US population was providing unpaid care to an adult 18 years or older, including family members with Alzheimer’s or dementia. Women make up about 75% of those caregivers, and they put in the work while juggling jobs, children, and ongoing domestic-task overload. With COVID back on the rise, caregivers are under additional pressure to care for and protect their loved ones. If you’re a caregiver, the stress may seem relentless, and you may be: having trouble sleeping under/over-eating self-medicating with alcohol or drugs canceling (or not even booking) your own doctors’ appointments That’s because when you’re a caregiver, caring for yourself tends to happen only after everyone else’s needs have been…

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Institute Editorial Team 09/26/2023

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