Narrating Hope

Join Elizabeth for this third episode in the Well-Being in the Workplace series which is all about meaning. We are meaning making people, yet what does that mean for the workplace? What if your job is not your dream job? What does listening to that longing for meaning look like in your life? What if what is most meaningful is outside of work? What might it look like to move towards more meaning even in small ways?

Join Elizabeth for the second part of the Well-Being in the Workplace series. This episode highlights the need for recovery between stressors to help prevent chronic stress. Elizabeth encourages elevating both rest and play as ways to come down from high alert, access rejuvenation, and work in a more sustainable way.

Join Elizabeth in this series on well-being in the workplace. Working hours make up a lot of someone's life and time. How someone feels at work matters and can greatly impact well-being. Listen in to this first conversation that highlights relationships as being of utmost importance in the work setting. If someone feels valued, connected, and respected in their work setting, it has great impact on how they feel. Elizabeth theorizes that it may lead to more sustainable productivity in the work setting versus someone operating under the threat of criticism and dynamics of disrespect.

Listen in to this conversation with Elizabeth about navigating uncertainty and mitigating anxiety by challenging catastrophic script writing. Instead, ground yourself in what you know to be true, which helps you live in the present and consider how to be wise for the future instead of so fearful.

Join Elizabeth in this reflective episode that encourages practicing re-setting often instead of viewing the re-set opportunity as solely tied to New Year resolutions. Re-setting is a practice that embodies grace as we move towards what we value the most over and over again despite various setbacks.

Listen in to this conversation with Elizabeth focused on improving relationships by reducing the destructive dynamic of growing resentment. When we can become more aware of any resentment we are experiencing, we can then work to address it so that our inner and outer lives align more. By voicing boundaries--saying yes when we mean it and no when we need to set a limit-resentment is often reduced and relationships enhanced.

Many times as we are busy and doing life, the first thing to go is taking good care of ourselves. Elizabeth encourages listeners to take care of themselves well by cultivating a practice of checking in with themselves. This kind of attunement includes checking in with your body as well as emotions and thoughts. Asking yourself "what do you need?" is that next step as it positions someone to take small steps to meet their needs and care for themselves well.

Elizabeth encourages listeners to give themselves permission not do everything during the holidays as well as permission not to be picture perfect. Instead, Elizabeth urges giving yourself permission to enjoy the season and prioritize meaning making. This involves saying no at times through boundary work, so that yeses are more whole-hearted. In this way, boundaries can go hand in hand with enjoying the holidays so much more.

As the holidays approach, they can often carry with them the potential for a great deal of stress and overwhelm, and yet this dynamic can often be influenced to feel so much lighter by prioritizing what is most meaningful during the holidays and then intentionally laying down the rest or at least accepting a "good enough" stance. This frees someone to focus on and enjoy what is most important to them instead of expecting themselves to equally attend to all things--even things that are not as important.

Can you relate to the concept of a guilty feeling and narrative that seems to follow you around, wherever you go, even when you are not doing something wrong? In this episode, Elizabeth encourages listeners to distinguish between guilt showing up as a conviction when not living in alignment with values versus this ever-present, constant weighty narrative that accuses and condemns when it's actually not even relevant, true, or helpful.