When an employee begins to suffer from burnout, it can lead employees down a dangerous path reducing productivity, affecting mood, increasing sick time, financial worry and fear of unemployment.Shay, a program coordinator for a non-profit organization I met with recently coordinates events, manages a museum and writes grant proposals. She works under a new manager
Avoid Burnout With Self CompassionDo you know the difference between self-care and self-compassion? Self-care practices are those things we do to take care of ourselves after work, social or community events that take great energy, or after stressful life circumstances. Self-care activities might include: going for a massagevisiting a spataking a walk or hike in naturespending
Have you ever been faced with problem that seemed far too overwhelming to solve? When Jadav Payeng was 16, he found a large number of snakes that had died due to extreme heat. Floods had washed them up on a sandbar near his home in the Jorhart District in India. At the time, powerful waters from the
Over the last few months, new evidence has emerged reminding us of the horrific treatment of thousands of indigenous children in residential schools across Canada. The remains of many hundreds of children have been found in unmarked graves around former residential schools. More are sure to be discovered. This is a time of grief and loss
One phone call cost Vivien Zheng and her family their entire life savings. When she received a call from the Chinese Consulate Vancouver and a police investigator, demanding she cooperate or end up in jail, she did what any good citizen would, she cooperated. After all, they even produced an arrest warrant and a copy of
Peace By Chocolate is more than an inspiring Canadian business story. It is an incredible example of the healing power of helping. Issam Hadhad had a passion for the craft of making chocolate. So he opened up his own factory near his home in Damascus, Syria. For over 20 years their family shipped specialty treats that
Whenever you see a young person struggling ask yourself, are they Dad enriched, or Dad deprived? I met with a young girl whose mom had recently separated from her boyfriend of two years, a man she had come to know as Dad. As the two adults divided their lives, neither adult recognized the grief the young
A fourteen year old I met with recently discussed with me the idea of selling her soul to the devil. She had viewed an instagram story that convinced her that if she were to sell her soul, she would lose her life but her family would be spared from their financial difficulties. “I just don’t
