Through the study of the Psychology of Happiness, we know that working on specific personal goals is one of the keys to happiness. We know this intuitively. Most of us are focused on personal goals and have a good bit of experience with the ups and downs of the process. NYU Psychology professor Gabriele Oettingen has a tool to offer in her book “Rethinking Positive Thinking” that is very helpful to get (and keep) goals moving forward. It’s appealing, simple, user-friendly and streamlined. After all, who has time to mess around?

Life is complicated. Lots of these complications are wonderful things, family, careers, friends, hobbies, our communities, etc. There are upsides and downsides to nearly everything; collectively, it can get quite jumbly. A challenge with life’s moving parts is staying on track with health and wellness goals amid competing commitments. Sometimes they can be directly counter to best intentions or at least obscure focus of them.

I happened to have on hand the stars of this recipe; oranges, dates and harissa. It’s delicious and easy!

I saw a funny post about coaching on social media. It was a picture of a woman surrounded by wrappers from Valentine’s candy and she said, “I resisted eating the last one, so I’m pretty sure I am ready to be a life coach now!” It made me chuckle, and it was poignant. This field of coaching is confusing. It’s relatively new and unregulated. This article is to help clarify what is, and what is not Health Coaching and contrast it to other modalities that support health and wellbeing.

I got to sit on an airplane for 9 hours recently with a lengthy buffet of movies to distract me from the middle-seat squish. I watched three movies about heroic women; one of them was “RBG”, the documentary about the diminutive legal powerhouse, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who turns 86 this month.