by Petra N. | Sep 3, 2015 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
My company had been acquired by Cisco and I landed in Don Proctor’s organization. Don is a Cisco veteran and a senior vice president. I always admired him and my respect for him grew even more when a few years later he had to let me go. The dot com bubble had burst,...
by Petra N. | Aug 18, 2015 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
“This is not how it’s supposed to be.” When you lose a child, the natural cycle of life is disturbed. We expect our parents to go first, us next, and our children last. But when the order is reversed, our world turns upside down in ways we cannot imagine. Christine...
by Petra N. | Aug 5, 2015 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
Nepal faded from the news a while ago and the chatter in the media has shifted to other topics. In a nation with already limited resources in every aspect, tragedies like this are more than devastating. And months later, the aftermath from the earthquakes is still...
by Petra N. | Jul 20, 2015 | Diet & herbs, Featured blog post
There’s a concept called “Like Increases Like” in Ayurveda, an ancient form of holistic medicine. As a health science that follows nature, it’s quite logical, really. Everything in the universe–the foods we eat, the things we do and the...
by Petra N. | Jul 4, 2015 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
The topic of organizational health has always been close to my heart. After my own encounter with the “crash and burn” phenomenon and surrounding organizational circumstances, my level of consciousness rose to a whole new level regarding the idea of well-being at...