Is it bad being negatively motivated to exercise?
The other day I was listening to American businessperson Carla Harris being interviewed on Adam Grant’s podcast about her successful career in the finance industry. My ears perked up when Harris...
View ArticleGreat news! It’s too late to do Joyful June perfectly!
It’s June 9th so we’ve already missed the first part of the Action for Happiness Joyful June calendar. Isn’t that terrific? No, I’m not excited that we missed it. I’m actually thrilled that we can’t do...
View ArticleA tisket, a tasket, Catherine’s got a basket (full of health problems)
First, a musical note: if you’ve never heard jazz immortal Ella Fitzgerald sing “A tisket, a tasket”, you are in for a treat. Listen up here. This summer has been fun– celebrating family milestones and...
View ArticleDoes a Diagnosis Change Who I Am?
Two months after an emergency visit to the hospital for 3 days (which I wrote about here), I’ve finally been diagnosed. I have Addison’s Disease. So, not enough for me to have a name for what ails me....
View ArticleIt’s World Menopause day! What to do?
Imagine my surprise when I heard from a fellow blogger that today, October 18, was World Menopause Day! Also imagine my confusion–exactly what is the nature of this special occasion, commemorating...
View ArticleFive lessons Catherine (re)learned about recovering from sickness
One would think, 3.5 years after the COVID pandemic hit it big on planet Earth, we would have figured out how to live in the world while a) being sick; and b) recovering from being sick. But we...
View ArticleBad Day, Good Dog
This isn’t what I planned to write about today but here I am. I’m writing this on Monday evening after a day full of the kind of small challenges that wear you down. None of these things were a crisis...
View ArticleOn Encouragement
Earlier this year I started a new hobby: ringing in a handbell choir. (See what is a bell choir.) It’s not a physical activity per se, but we see health holistically around here and I’ll bring it back...
View ArticleCan we really make changes in exercise/eating habitual “just like brushing...
Note: this is part one of an at-least-two-part series on habit formation or change and our criteria for success (e.g. “it’s as regular or effortless as brushing our teeth”). Dear FIFI readers, I have...
View ArticleAll fired up by Caroline Paul’s ‘Tough Broad’
In case you can’t tell by the title of this post – I LOVED THIS BOOK! I confess, though, when I first got an email offering me a review copy of Tough Broad, I thought it had been sent to me by mistake....
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