Starting Over is Not Failure

By Dr. Jane BluesteinMay 2, 2016April 30, 2022 Counselors, Educators, General Interest, Overcoming obstacles, Parents, Perfectionism, Self-care and Inspiration, Social and Emotional Growth accomplishing goals, accomplishment, adversity, completion, fresh starts, goal-setting, growth, moving forward, new day, optimism, perfectionism, persistence, rebounding, resetting goals, resolutions, setbacks, starting fresh, starting over, trying again Leave a comment

Beginning a new year. Or a new day. Note, May 2, 2016: I started this post on Feb. 8, 2014 and, like many things I started during the time I was working on the perfectionism book, lost track of it before I finished. I think the idea of coming back more than 2 years later…

Silver Linings

By Jane Bluestein, Ph.D., Judy Lawrence, M.S.Ed., and S.J. Sanchez, M.P.A.November 26, 2012June 9, 2022 Avoiding burnout, General Interest, Gratitude and inspiration, Overcoming obstacles, Self-care and Inspiration, Taking care of yourself abundance, challenging experiences, gratitude, growth, learning from trauma, recovery, survival, surviving trauma Leave a comment

The up side of down times Imagine a world in which there were no unnecessary tragedies—not because negative events did not occur, but because we recognize that these occurrences may have been necessary to open the way for some greater blessings to happen. One of the greatest challenges in life is learning to see the…