Category: Stress and Depression
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When it’s nobody’s fault (and it can be)
Recently, I discussed a difficult situation with someone; it’s a situation that, sooner or later, represents us all. What happens when something goes wrong, but it’s nobody’s fault?Especially nowadays, when everything we are trying to do is difficult, not only because we are working from home (which can be more difficult… consider only that instead…
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Is Monday causing you the deep blue blues? Coping with changes to coping
Monday blues – who hasn’t heard of it? It’s that anxious, sinking feeling that can last all weekend (starting, in fact, before Friday at times) that meets and greets Monday(s), often before it’s (or they) happened.(Conversely, and because it is Monday, and if you are reading it, you may need a laugh, and also simply…
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Getting back to things… after taking a time off
Learning to stop working and give oneself a break and then going back to it (hopefully relatively fresh and rested) are possibly two greatest steps in our professional existence. I covered the first before the holidays. It only makes sense to cover the second now, when we are all blearily (just me?) emerging into a…
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Should we keep up serious debates during the holidays? Reflections on overworking
Initially, this was going to be a complex post about responsibility and change, because they are current hot topics and because many of the people I talk with and clients have expressed various thoughts about change, inclusivity, diversity, and responsibility over the last while. It was a hot topic of 2020 and it promises to…
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No man is an island…except after a pandemic
As offices everywhere begin to slowly, tentatively reopen, the return to the everyday life simply isn’t what we knew. With the covid-19 considered to be under fragile control (and with a potential new wave always possible), there is a host of new rules to consider for the average office worker…if they even return. According to…