What’s On Your Plate? Setting Boundaries

Gina Messina, Ph.D. 04/25/2022

What's on your plate? Setting Boundaries

What is on your plate? Is your plate small, organized, and calculates perfectly on my fitness pal? Is it overflowing and messy with lots of different metaphorical foods? Are they healthy and nourishing or junky and inflammatory? Or is it somewhere in between?Why are these items are on your plate and how did they get there? What have you added, pushed to the side, or eliminated? Have you said no to an extra helping realizing you couldn’t take one more bite? Or did you load it on adding weight to the heaviness you already feel? We often struggle with recognizing ourselves as being enough, and so, in order to create a sense of value, we pile our plates high. The thing is, we all have…

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Gina Messina, Ph.D.

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4 Self-Care Practices to Disconnect from Work

Why do we need self-care practices to disconnect from work? As we cope with the stress of phase 2 of the pandemic, many women are headed back to the office. Finding a healthy work-life balance seems to be more difficult than ever. Imagine this: You finally leave the office after a long day at work. You’re exhausted, and can’t wait to get home. But in the car, you start thinking about that project you’re working on, or that client, or that meeting tomorrow. You’re filled with worry and self-doubt, and you can’t stop thinking about work the whole way home. You get home and you are still thinking about it. Your body is physically at home with your family, but your mind is still at…

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Gina Messina, Ph.D. 09/06/2021

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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

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 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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Institute Editorial Team 01/24/2021

Stop Riding Life on the Default Setting

It might not be obvious to any of us on a day to day basis, but the world has radically shifted in the last 50 years. We’re watching as understood norms and structures are collapsing right before our eyes – either through corruption or a mass awakening or both. Is college really the best way to get a higher education?Is the American dream of buying a home with two kids and a white picket fence really sustainable?Do the police actually protect us or are they a part of the problem we see today?Is Democracy stable against tyranny and uprising?Do we really need banks and intermediaries or can we democratize and digitize money?Why do we think staying in the same career for 30+ years is the…

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Institute Editorial Team 05/31/2022

Stop managing your time and start managing your energy

You know the drill. Work, family and other obligations have you running ragged, and there’s always the feeling that there aren’t enough hours in the day. You’re stressed and exhausted, but sleep isn’t replenishing you. You struggle with productivity, your patience is thin, and the work you once loved just isn’t providing the same satisfaction anymore. That’s burnout. We would rather call it something else, an energy crisis. Burnout sounds like something you can’t come back from, but an energy crisis? Personal energy is renewable, you just have to know where to look for it. That’s what personal energy management is all about, finding the sources of energy you need to get off the hamster wheel and back in the game in a way that…

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Institute Editorial Team 02/24/2021

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