take control, feel better
As a mom, I sometimes get my day off on the wrong track, and I try to juggle work and parenting at the exact same time, and I end up doing a half-assed job of both. I have this work sitting on the screen (or paper) in front of me and I can’t wrap my [...]
I have been reading and working through MJ Ryan’s This Year I Will… and I’ve gotten really into one aspect of her approach. Ryan suggests that asking yourself why you do a particular self-sabotaging thing repeatedly is not always useful. Asking ‘Why?’ gets your left brain analyzing the problem but it won’t necessarily trigger any [...]
Note: From time to time I will be posting book commentaries on threedeepbreaths. This particular one is part of the MotherTalk/MomCentral book tour for Suzy Welch’s new book, and I received a free copy of the book in order to review it. If I didn’t like it, I had the option of dropping out of the [...]
I’ve been out of my groove lately, my routines have all gone by the wayside in the face of house repairs and it’s driving me crazy. Before the last two weeks, had you asked me about my household routines I would have said something like : “I like the idea of routines, how they simplify [...]
The tagline of my blog says ‘Take control, feel better’ and I thought it was high time I explained that a little. I’m in the process of learning how to let go of trying to predict all possible outcomes of new situations, and how to be a little more comfortable when sitting with uncertainty, and [...]
Visualization can be a very useful tool to relieve stress, improve performance, and create a positive outcome scenario. Athletes use it to ‘practice’ perfect form, sales people use it to get over nervousness about cold calls, and stressed out people can use it to bring about relaxed feelings or to rehearse potentially difficult situations and [...]
One of the (many, many) things I want to do with this blog is give parents, especially stay-at-home parents, some tools to help them when they feel overwhelmed by their children. It happens, even to the best, most patient parents. Children are not particularly reasonable creatures, what with the natural (and appropriate!) self-centredness they sport [...]
I used to to think I was an utter failure at meditation (cue the sound of a thousand meditation teachers shaking their heads sadly) because I couldn’t keep my mind clear for any length of time. But when I read some of Jon Kabat-Zinn’s work I found out that I should be taking the word [...]
I won’t be launching this site officially for about two weeks but in case someone happens by: Three Deep Breaths is about feeling better, a little at a time. It will contain information, ideas and tricks that I happen upon as I explore meditation, mindfulness, visualization, success literature, time management, positive psychology, good parenting and [...]
