The best tool: ACCOMPANY

The more I dedicate myself to training and ensuring the quality of the Healthy Work employee assistance programs, the more I help as a clinical psychologist, mentor or coach, the more I realize the importance of accompanying those around us. If we accept (correctly) that we can never change to ...

There is a jungle out there

“It's like a jungle out there it makes me wonder how I keep from going under” (It's like a jungle out there and it makes me wonder how I manage not to sink). It's a line from an old rap song from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five that I remember often, and now more than ...

Forgetting motivation when we approach wellness

We all know what we want: to be physically and emotionally healthy. The difficult thing is, even knowing how to develop healthy habits, get on with it. We all have a hard time getting off the couch and exercising, eating lettuce instead of donut, or going to bed early when there is something interesting to read or watch on television. ...

Respect the master beams of your life

Last week I spoke with a friend who works in a construction company. Interestingly, due to some personal technical questions, the subject of girders came up and gave me pause. I explain. He lectured me that if we were thinking of doing a home modification, we should respect these beams. For those who are not ...

The little things that matter

If we think about it calmly, in most cases it is not great difficulties or major disasters or crises that undermine our capacities and our relationships. They are the little things that, neglected in time, bring out the worst that we carry inside and cause our relationships to fail. I put as an example, the ...

Anti-stress decalogue: 10 keys

The routine fills us with obligations that make us stress many times without realizing it. If you follow these guidelines, it is possible to reduce it to improve our health and emotional well-being. Eat 5 meals a day and respect the schedules. Follow a diet with natural, little processed, fresh and seasonal ingredients. Stay hydrated during ...