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How to use the neuroplasticity of your brain to shift from fear to focus Here’s the situation: I’m an expert on stress management. I conduct workshops and appear on TV telling people how to stay calm when things are tough. But I’m freaking out. My dermatologist just gave me a diagnosis: Melanoma on right cheek. Extensive surgery required: general anesthesia, skin …

Right this Minute: My good friend Joe just called me from Florida. Joe: “My sadness is almost overwhelming. I don’t know what to do with it.” Me: “I’ll light a candle now, and let’s pray together.” In our mutual silence, I remembered words from a teacher twenty years ago when I couldn’t stop crying about a tragedy: Great sadness. Great …

Today, if a 20-year-old had not burst into a small-town classroom, my state of Connecticut would be a happier place. Today, if the young man had not had an assault weapon, 20 sixth-graders and 6 educators would be at this moment celebrating the holidays with their families. Five years later we are still awash in Sandy Hook grief. And the …

11/18/2017 04:31 pm ET Have too many things on your plate these days? I do. After my busy mind woke me at 3 AM, I had a tough time getting back to sleep. Definitely in a tizzy. Webster defines tizzy as “a highly excited and distracted state of mind, origin unknown (1940).” (Makes me wonder…before 1940, did people have fewer …

photo Paul Bloom So much rage / violence / death / confusion embedded in our past, present, and future. Past: the Burns/Novick series brings the anguish and horrors of Vietnam to our eyes Present: our sisters and brothers die “unneeded” deaths in massive numbers: another mass shooting in the USA…killing, displacement, starvation in Syria, France, Myanmar, Puerto Rico – and …

Millie Grenough, Contributor Coach, Trainer, Author who helps you find an Oasis in the Overwhelm, whatever it may be Sometimes “not knowing everything” pays off in unexpected ways. Example: As is our routine, Pablo and I chose dates for our hike in the Wyoming Rockies according to best coordination with Nature: After the glaciers melt. Before the snow starts. Bingo! …

Bruce Plasse On this hot summer day I am savoring pleasures I had as a kid on 42nd Street in Louisville, KY. We did all kinds of things that moved our bodies and activated our brains. And nobody had to plug us in or drive us anywhere. We just did it. Here are some of my favorites: Play Rock Teacher …

This morning the daffodils in my backyard shout “Happy Passover / Easter — whatever!” So vibrant. So erect. So fleeting… My life, the life of my grandchildren, the life of each person in our world — how fragile, how fleeting. The juxtaposition of last week’s headlines rattles me: chemical warfare / missile strikes palm sunday processions / church bombings passover …

  On this April day in 2017, dew on the petals in my front yard captures me. How beautiful. How fleeting. How fragile my life – the life of each person – in our world. The juxtaposition of headlines rattles me: chemical warfare / missile strikes palm sunday processions / church bombings passover preparations / hate killings In the middle …

Millie Grenough When I walked to my sideyard in the middle of last week’s blizzard, a flash of purple stunned me. How in heck can that little flower push up through all this snow? My daughter-in-law phoned me that afternoon. “Millie, I’m worried. The daffodils in our yard just showed their green. I don’t think they heard the weather report. …