If you’ve ever tried to use airline miles, you’ve probably encountered information about black-out dates. These are often dates on either side of a holiday or major travel time when no matter how many points you have, you can’t use …
Do you ever feel like you’re being pulled in so many different directions that you’re afraid one day you’ll snap at someone or simply break? In some ways this makes us like rubber bands, which, just like us, come in …
Raise your hand if people would describe you as a driven, ambitious person. Although you can’t see it, I’m raising my hand. This is why it’s a bit out of character that I haven’t posted new blog content since March …
Do you have OOPS disorder? I’m not referring to “oops” like “Oops, I forgot x!” or “Oops, I didn’t do y!” It’s a challenging condition that appears as a way to move forward and get tasks accomplished. When in reality, …
A Knee is an Injury Waiting to Happen This title of a newspaper article in the early 1980’s, caught my eye because I had problems with my right knee at the time. In fact, this was when I started learning …
“I think I need to shock my pool,” my client Peg (not her real name) said one day. WHAT? Background: Peg has several brain and body-based diagnoses. As a result, she decided that using an Endless Pool (a small, easy-to-use, …
Have you ever rolled through a stop sign while driving… as you barely tap the brakes? There’s often not much incentive to cease the “rolling stop,” unless you’re caught by the police or in an accident as a result of …
I see lots of dogs walking their owners when I’m out exercising. I enjoy seeing the variety of dogs: large, small, excited, mellow, etc. Recently, I was striding up a hill when I noticed that the person cresting the hill …
Know what these things have in common? Moving. Retirement. New medical diagnosis. Job promotion. Marriage. Change within an ongoing health issue. If you said they are all life transitions, you are correct! With the end of one season of life …
Crocs. Love them or hate them? I’m not talking about the reptiles. I’m talking about the shoes. I’d been fairly neutral about them. Until recently, I’d only owned one pair. It was a flip-flop style. I’d gotten them for the …