Today I’ll be outside at City Hall delivering comments on a hot topic in Takoma Park: what is graffiti? tl;dr: All of us getting outside during covid led to a fight between me and my small Maryland city about what is graffiti vs. community art. It’s still going. What we…

Time for the finale. Even if you didn’t read about Intimacy or Generosity, or download our v.2 Prescription, that’s okay. I’m glad you’re here now. Popular TV & movies can spark team wellness talks — check out the 14 days of my new year series 2022: the Lasso Way, with…

We want to hear from you, the users, on V.3 of our Prescription. The trilogy is: Generosity, Intimacy, and Encanto. In each: science / data / lyrics Susan’s story and a Nonprofit Wellness connection things to DO or read from here tl;dr Intimacy is super-important for our mental health &…

Time to revise the Personal Stress Prescription again, y’all. We want to hear from you, the users of this discussion tool, on V.3. To spark conversation, I penned three essays on Generosity, Intimacy, and Encanto. They’re not the Federalist Papers (I don’t write Non-stop), but each essay has: some research…

That’s right, steal or borrow this content for your Slack channel, your newsletter, your wellness committee team discussion. Our tools are under Creative Commons, so as long as you mention us, we’d love for you to share! This is the companion piece to “2022: the Lasso Way” (Week 1). There…

Since my co-founder, Ty, is a coach, and I’m the daughter of a coach, we take Ted Lasso seriously (also, we hail from Baltimore, so we are suckers for a BELIEVE poster). And we’re both frugal, so it took a while to subscribe to Apple TV. Once we took the…

Stress Equity? Something to ponder for World Mental Health Day (if you can get a “bathroom break” to read this)… “My Stress Score is in double digits — that’s before I even walk in my workplace.” This is a common response when people fill out our Stressor Scorecard. We’ve been…

Why are nonprofit leaders my age so good at burning out their staff? I’m a 1971 baby, pure Gen X — we’re the latchkey kids who are tech-and-race-savvy enough to translate for Boomers, and cool enough to be friends with Millennials. Gen X invented the term “slacker” but we can…

You’ve done “the pee-pee dance” when you’ve waited too long to go to the bathroom, right? But do you do it regularly? I learned the dance from my mom, a medical professional. I practiced, for decades, and later taught it to my daughter. We are three generations of martyrs who…