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 ...
One of the things that most prevents us from moving forward in life and causes us more suffering, is the difference that sometimes exists between reality and how we think it should be. The greater this difference, the greater the false expectations, the more unhappy we are. How much time do we spend idealizing things and ...
“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 ...
We all know what we want: to be physically and emotionally healthy. The difficult thing is, even knowing how to develop healthy habits. In our last blog we talked about the need to link our wishes and general motivations to the changes we want to make in terms of well-being. So we said that if we are motivated by idealism and help ...
Life is hard, but thank you for having an Employee Assistance Program. And this time I am not referring to the crises that really matter, the loss of loved ones, layoffs from work, children with drug or behavioral problems, chronic illnesses ... No, no. I mean day to day. I…
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Physical health. If we are able to sleep well, eat healthy, not smoke, manage our stress and exercise (at least 20 minutes three times a week) we have everything done in this field. The thoughts. The reality is far from what we think. We create dozens of scenarios in our head to act in front of ...