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Is Self-Care at the Bottom of Your To-Do List?

What are you likely to do when you get a last-minute funder request about a pending grant application just before heading to the airport for a much-needed vacation?

If your answers to these questions are similar to what I hear from many of my coaching clients, you may be struggling to balance the health of your nonprofit with your own well-being.

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The new book Rest Is Resistance really spoke to me. Author Tricia Hersey, Founder of the Nap Ministry, takes on the social norms exaggerating the value of work and contributing to social media addiction. She attributes our high levels of burnout, anxiety, depression and poor health…

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I've been thinking a lot about the challenges my coaching clients share with me. Among them are unreasonable expectations, long hours and competition over scarce resources, real or perceived.

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“Most of us are experts at solving other people’s problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own, and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.” –Nan Fairbrother, The House in the Country