The Skillful Blog
How to do Self-Awareness
I came across an article worth sharing this morning. In it, the author of the recently published book Insight: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life Tasha Eurich explores the "right" and "wrong"...
What Makes Someone A Relationship Expert?
Lately I've had an increasing awareness of the use of the terms "Relationship Coach" and "Relationship Expert" and it's got me thinking... What makes someone an expert? I know there is probably some algorithm out there that states once we have spent 50,000,000 hours...
Improving Self Awareness
Self awareness is not something we are born with. We all come into the world in a fairly narcissistic way: we have a ton of needs and we are entirely dependent on others to help us meet them. As we grow into children, tweens and teenagers, we become painfully aware of...
Happy Mother’s Day: Choosing self care to buck the trend.
Mother's Day is a holiday fraught with expectations. The cultural standard includes breakfast in bed, cards, flowers, dining out for lunch or dinner so mom doesn't have to cook (for that one meal) on that day. Some mothers expect to be adored and exalted on this, o...