August 2020

What We Learn When We Lose People Who “Had It All”

A wake-up call, not just for the sports world, but for the entire world. Hilary Tisch, the daughter of the co-owner of the NY Giants was:✅- Beautiful✅- Successful✅- Well-Educated✅- An owner of two homes & had all the materials possession one could want✅- Doing what she was passionate about✅- Engaging in meaningful volunteer work for …

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We Must Stop “Bucketing” Mental Health – It’s A Topic For Us All

This article about COVID’s impact on Health Care workers was published yesterday. Has the situational experience of being on the front lines for Health Care workers impacted their MH? Absolutely. In the midst of the pandemic, HBO just released a doc: “The Weight of Gold.” It was abt (non-Covid related), high performance athletes & how …

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Introducing The #SameHere Scale – For Social And Emotional Learning In Schools

Lots of talk abt how schools are going to adjust even more, w remote learning in the plans. Before we get to current events, let’s talk abt the ways schools in the past have dealt w this topic. Maybe this’ll reveal a lot abt me, but I don’t mind being “the example.” Going back to …

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Helping Is Healing

I absoltuely love this “lesson”: “A wise teacher once brought balloons to school. She asked her pupils to blow them up and each write their name on one.  After the students tossed their balloons in the hall, the teacher moved through the hall mixing them all up. The students were given five minutes to find …

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