Blogs
Our community leaders actively contribute to the Wild About Wellness Community on a numerous topics focused on holistic health and wellness. A few of the community blogs are posted here for you to enjoy. Join the Wild About Wellness Community membership to have access to numerous topics with valuable and practical information, insights and stories through articles, videos, recorded interviews and events focused on empowerment, healing and transformation. Together we have created a safe space to explore, learn and grow.
Valentine’s Day in Finland: Celebrating Inclusivity and Holistic Health
Written by Simone Usselman-Tod In Finland, Valentine's Day is celebrated a little differently. It’s called Ystävänpäivä, or "Friend's Day," and the focus is on inclusivity. Rather than being...
A Wellness-Centered Approach to Creating Your Future
As we step into a new year, there’s a unique energy that encourages reflection and renewal. It’s a time to pause, take stock, and set the tone for the months ahead. For our wellness community, this...
Welcome 2025: A Year Full of Possibilities!
As we step into this new year, take a moment to reflect on everything you’ve achieved and overcome in 2024. You’ve made it through challenges, celebrated victories, and learned valuable lessons along the way. Now, with 2025 ahead, it’s time to dream bigger and take bold steps toward the life you truly want.
’Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Moment to Pause and Reflect
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the air, A mix of emotions drifted everywhere. Christmas Eve is a time of stillness, a pause before the crescendo of Christmas Day. It’s a night...
Eat Your Crust – Life Lines and Laugh Lines Of A Sweetly Warped Woman
Eat Your Crusts holds a collection of short stories of the memoirish persuasion from early childhood to the present that reflect on the gentle skips in the park of life, as well as the face plants in the dirt I’ve confronted and lived to tell the tale.
Mindful Leadership
What is a leader and what is mindful leadership? In what ways do leaders serve the greater good? These questions are difficult to answer. As I reflect on them my answer would be: A leader is someone who can guide people into their vision that will serve the community. Our personal values come in to play in that leadership must be given without an agenda of manipulation or coercion. A good leader should have integrity, self-awareness, courage, respect, compassion and resilience” (quote from the internet)
Walk Your Talk – You Make A Difference
Most of the world was aware that November 5, 2024 was the presidential election in the United States. After voting earlier that day, I knew it was unlikely that definitive results would come in before I went to bed. The race was too close to call.
As a two time heart attack survivor, I know how important it is to remain calm. I chose not to go down the rabbit hole of getting caught up in election coverage. Instead …
Leading Learning: Fostering Growth and Empowerment as a Teacher
In today’s world, where we are constantly bombarded with information, the role of a teacher extends far beyond merely sharing knowledge. Teachers have a unique opportunity to step into leadership roles, guiding others as they grow and empowering them along the way. My own journey to becoming a leader in learning has been deeply influenced by my personal values and experiences, including my work with children with disabilities and my experience raising three boys with unique learning differences. These experiences have profoundly shaped my approach to education, inspiring me to create meaningful learning experiences
Holistic Modalities to Promote Self Care and Sleep
In our busy world where technology is relied upon on a daily basis, we are consumed with work, family and life stresses, we seem to forget to take the time for ourselves. Everything is so fast paced and we are so focussed on other things, we seem to neglect ourselves. It is very important to make ourselves a priority and avoid burnout. There are many things we can do to promote self care thus helping with a better sleep.
Navigating Change and Creating Purposeful Living
Life changes: Moving, relationships- new ones coming in, or established ones leaving- career changes, births, death, all bring a need for conscious reflection and a choice, even if that choice is something we feel has been imposed on us by events we feel is out of our control. Truth: Many things ARE out of our control. Relationships dissolve, people move away, friendships ebb and flow. People die. We often do not have control over these things, so, how do we keep moving forward? We have no control over the actions of others, but we DO have control over how we respond. We are resilient. Most of us have survived, to one degree of another. We might be bent, and might feel broken, but we are still here.
To live a purposeful life when we feel broken can seem impossible…
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