ANDRIA CORSO
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Tag Archives: Self-Care
5 Signs of Compassion Fatigue in Animal Caregivers: Is this You?
A day in the life of an animal care worker includes many emotions, including joy and satisfaction that results from helping save or rescue an animal in need, or sadness and burden the of witnessing animal suffering, neglect, and (often) euthanasia. If the distressing emotions … More …
Give Yourself Permission
I’ve been working with a client recently who’s had a tough few months. Last week she came to Ashlyn Cottage for a private retreat and had an interesting breakthrough. Perhaps some of you will be able to relate to this. She’s been in business for … More …
What Are You Allowing?
Many years ago, I spent a number of years in a verbally and emotionally abusive relationship. I won’t get into the details but suffice it to say it was not the best time in my life. I was (and am) a smart educated woman. I … More …
#TeamNoSleep
I’ve seen this hashtag quite a bit in my social media feeds lately: #teamnosleep. I was perplexed so I searched on it and found two prominent themes. Parents with infants (of course – #teamnosleep), and busy people pushing themselves to maximum effort and sacrificing sleep. … More …
What Would Your Younger Self Say?
Think back to a time in your life when you were carefree, when you believed you could do anything. How old were you? 10? 18? 22? Whatever the age, take a minute and tap back into that younger version of you. Are you there? Okay. … More …
Five Reasons to Spend a Day on You
Do you treat yourself as well as you treat others? Think about it… do you have the same kindness, compassion, care, or concern toward yourself that you do for others? What if you did? What would it feel like? How would you behave? I decided … More …
Navigating Loss in the Arms of Grief
Music, like certain scents can instantly bring me back to a moment, or moments in time. I guess the senses of smelling and hearing have that type of power over me. Perhaps you can relate? A couple of weeks ago I was out running and … More …
A Tidal Wave Of Grief And An Open Heart
Tuesday September 29, 2015 Last week was the one-year anniversary of my Dad’s death and wow, what a mess I was… like, on my knees with my heart breaking into a million pieces kind of mess. I was not expecting to be such a mess. … More …
Is Balance Even Possible?
Thursday, February 6. 2014 The day after I wrote last week’s blog post about the missing ingredient to having a balanced life I was at an event mentoring young women and high school girls on their careers and life. One of the speakers said the … More …
The Missing Piece of Your Balanced Life
Thursday, January 30, 2014 After spending 20 years in the work world, I am still trying to crack the nut on having a balanced life. Not specifically “work-life” balance but overall life balance. Work is a part of life so you can’t really separate it … More …