How to Prioritize Your Energy and Maintain Your Schedule

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Working moms need to prioritize our health. With many of us heading back to the office and yet another change to our routines is disrupting our lives, our overall wellbeing is suffering. Add balancing your job with motherhood — childcare, packing lunches, dishes, laundry, and more — it is critical that we make time for self-care and move our health to the top of our priority list. Many working moms avoid or even forget about self-care because they simply don’t have time for it. If this sounds familiar, stay tuned. These simple tips will allow you to put your health at the top of your to-do list without finding extra time for it. Why It’s Important for Working Moms to Prioritize Our Health Oftentimes, we…
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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 nearly 23 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the US, 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 sleepingunder/over-eatingself-medicating with alcohol or drugscanceling (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…
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Dear Fellow Working Woman – I invite you to participate in a short survey. Please mentally check off any of the scenarios below that you have experienced: Before leaving for work you have already begun thinking about your to-do list for the day. And, of course…it’s a mile long.You arrive at work and your inbox greets you with an overwhelming amount of emails to manage, even after deleting the ones you can ignore. Thanks, inbox.It’s time to hunker down and work on one of your important projects. You are in the initial phase of working on it, and you are interrupted by one of the million commonly experienced concentration killers [co-workers “dropping in” to chat, desktop clutter calling your name to clean it up, your…
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We realize that not everyone on the planet is a lover of mornings. Whether you have to set an alarm each day and drag yourself out of bed, jump up at the break of dawn, or prefer staying up at night and sleeping through the mornings, everyone has their own routine. Or do they? Many people struggle with mornings to varying degrees; some wake each morning and handle it pretty well. But regardless of which type of person you are, a morning routine is important, whether that routine begins at 5 a.m. or 10 a.m. The Benefits of a Daily Morning Routine Your morning routine is the order in which you do the same basic tasks each morning. A routine might seem to give some…
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Zoom, and other virtual conferencing platforms like it, became both our favorite and least favorite piece of technology over the past year and a half. On one hand, they allowed us to keep in touch with our loved ones when it otherwise wouldn’t have been possible. On the other hand, the constant virtual meetings became absolutely exhausting for many of us. “Zoom fatigue” is what happens when you’re burnt out on virtual meetings, and it can affect anyone. However, research shows that women are more affected by Zoom fatigue than men. Why is this, and what can women do about it? Read on for more. What Is “Zoom Fatigue”? Whether you’re using Zoom (and other video conferencing platforms, like Skype or Google Meet) for work…
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