It can be difficult to navigate a relationship with a toxic colleague. The impact of the experience can stay with you for years, even for your entire career, if you don’t get help processing what happened. You may feel embarrassed or ashamed that you “put” yourself in a toxic situation and that it is your fault. That is normal but it’s not your fault and there probably isn’t anything you could have done differently.
You’ve been fired. How do you recover and get your confidence back? Here is a process that I use with my clients that helps them heal after being fired or another traumatic experience in the workplace.
A shift is happening in the way we talk about mental health at work. Employers are waking up to the fact that mental health goes beyond the treatment of mental health disorders and are including preventative mental health care as part of their overall employee wellness initiatives and benefits.
This is good news, for sure, and it leaves many of us asking, what exactly is mental health and how do I protect my mental health in and outside of work.
Can You Thrive In a Toxic Workplace? In a recent survey, 55% of employees say they work in a moderately to highly toxic workplace and 47% say that there is more toxicity in their workplace than there was pre-pandemic. This is bad news for employees and employers. Toxicity […]
What if career trauma is holding you back from reaching your goals? Let’s start with a story. Dinah walked into the conference room wearing the new power suit she’d bought for the occasion. Today was the day the board was going to announce they were naming her CEO. She settled […]
Olympic and World Gymnastics Champion Simone Biles withdrew from several events at the 2020 Summer Olympics because of a case of “the twisties.” When I Googled “the twisties” (essentially when a gymnast can’t tell up from down while in midair), they sounded hauntingly familiar to me. “The twisties,” as it […]
