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The Newsletter for Your Mind at Work
“Your Mind at Work” is meant to create space for shared learnings, new ideas, philosophical challenges, and encouragement for all of us trying to work better with the thing between our ears.
I intend to share insights from real coaching and counseling conversations, research, music or art, and the occasional philosophical musing.
The presenting problem
Our minds are working 24/7: impacting our beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and relationships, and most of us don’t even realize how our mind is influencing our day. Fear, boredom, addictive scrolling, dysfunction, obsession, pleasure, joy— all influence how we spend our money, time, and energy.
There are two ends of a spectrum:
those who control their mind too much
and
those who let their mind control them.
In my 1000+ clinical hours and in over 6 years of coaching conversations, I often encounter people who are “emotionally constipated,” meaning they over regulate their emotions to the point that they never experience or express them. E-motions are energy in motion: if the energy doesn’t get to move out and through, safely and substantially, it comes out somewhere else or causes acute pain after it accumulates.
Your Mind at Work is meant to gently shed light on ways we might be underserving ourselves and our people.
In the workplace
I have come to notice (and experience) the profound impact that our workplace has on our mental well-being, our stress, our thought processes, and more. Just this week I felt disrespected and gas-lit in a work situation. I am learning to process through those emotions, choose serenity (accept the things I can/can’t control), and move on with a forgiveness that walks hand-in-hand with updated boundaries.
In our coaching work at BRDGE, we often see how people have lost confidence, clarity, or competitive edge somewhere along the way. I want Your Mind at Work to do whatever a little newsletter can to help you on your path.
What would you like to read?
This is an honest request for insight! I have a lot of things to share, sure, and I want each read to answer a question or speak to an experience you’re having!