by Petra N. | Jan 28, 2016 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
For sure it’s one of the least sexy topics to talk about at the dinner table. But this chronic, non-communicable lifestyle disease (well, that was a mouthful!) is so prominent all over the world that we cannot sweep it under the rug. Almost two-thirds of us in the...
by Petra N. | Nov 17, 2015 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
Time. We all have 24 hours of it in a day, yet we always seem to be strapped for it. We’re overscheduled. And when we free up one thing in our calendar, we replace it with something else. We lead with “doing”. Always doing. Rarely just being. When we just “are”, many...
by Petra N. | Nov 3, 2015 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
Stress continues to be one of those elephant-in-the-room kind of topics at work. We don’t want our boss or team to know we’re stressed because it’s viewed as a negative thing and a weakness in the workplace. And often times, we are so caught up in it that we ourselves...
by Petra N. | Oct 17, 2015 | Featured blog post, Focus & meditation
The most fundamental and powerful tool we have is our breath. As long as we live, it’s always with us. And it’s the probably one of the (if not the) most underused tools in our daily lives. “Every emotion you experience has its own breathing pattern: anger produces...
by Petra N. | Jan 6, 2015 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
Do you ever feel like your calendar is running you instead of the other way around? Ever get agitated due to too many competing priorities and super-tight deadlines but not enough time? Or have restless nights thinking about your version of the TPS report? (Gotta love...