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Anxious About Re-entry to the Office?

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Re-entry anxiety, it’s a real phenomenon. While one part of you may be eager to get back into the world to experience a semi-normal life, another part of you may be petrified. Going back to the office, venturing outdoors, visiting with friends – all of these activities that used to be automatic can now spark waves […]

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The Importance of Being Patient with Yourself

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As many of us move through week nine of sheltering in place, it becomes more and more difficult to simply “keep calm and carry on.”  Some of us may have started the quarantine with high hopes of a brief but successful period of isolation. Some of us may have used this time to launch creative […]

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Managing Our Brain’s Response To Uncertainty

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As our world, our country, our states, our towns, and our communities work hard to address the many aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, each of us has another internal challenge that requires our constant attention – How do we manage living with so much uncertainty?  It’s one thing to be unsure about tomorrow’s weather or […]

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Moving Forward – Into the Unknown

/ by Logan Medrano | 4 Comments on Moving Forward – Into the Unknown

This past Sunday (4/26/2020) Governor Cuomo of New York said, “We are not going back to the way things were, we are going forward.” I have to say I agree with the Governor.  Many of my clients are telling me that they see this as an opportunity to do things differently. Some small business owners […]

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Living in the Waiting Room

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I don’t know about you, but I hate to wait. When faced with a long line at a store, a movie, a food bar or even a gas station, I’m the person who opts out, returning at another time when I won’t have to wait. In fact, until March of this year, waiting for anything […]

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Being Kind to Your Emotionally Exhausted Self

by Logan Medrano | 2 Comments on Being Kind to Your Emotionally Exhausted Self

So here we are. For many people this is week six (or more) of sheltering in place. It’s also week six of home schooling, endless meal preparation, social isolation, working remotely, and celebrating almost every occasion we can think of virtually – on Zoom, Google Chat, FaceTime, Skype and whatever other device or platform appeals […]

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Self-Care During Troubled Times

by Logan Medrano | 3 Comments on Self-Care During Troubled Times

As many of us move through another week of being Sheltered in Place, it becomes increasingly more challenging to break away from the continuous demands of home, work, family, child care, elder care, animal care, and take a moment for ourselves. Without any boundaries or breaks between home life and work life, hard workers just […]

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This is A Marathon, Not A Sprint – How to Manage Your Emotions During the Pandemic

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One message that we are all hearing over and over again is that the current state of affairs is going to last for a while. It’s clear that, from an emotional endurance point of view, we are looking at a situation that is more of a marathon than a sprint. With that in mind, here […]

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