A Weekly Column on Being Human by Wellness Specialist Elizabeth Clayton
Jul 13
Anyone who has lost someone close to them to dementia, degree by degree until they are truly all gone, has witnessed something profoundly heartbreaking.
Jul 05
Up ahead I could see her picking raspberries off a bush and transferring them to her mouth, the exact same lady I saw there last week.
Jun 21
How do you know you're not supposed to take all the cake?
Jun 15
Out of all the areas to safeguard, psychological safety is interesting for how it zeroes in on our psyche, the psyche being the “who we are” part of our make up.
Jun 07
Story is our heart's weak link: when we hear someone's story, they become human to us.
May 31
It turns out when people are sent home to work one of the first things to go are the shoes.
May 24
You know how you can block certain critical pieces of information no matter how many times you try to commit it to memory?
May 18
I think we can all agree there are helpful things we can do in any given situation and there are unhelpful things we can do.
May 11
More than a vacation, more than a restorative nap, more than a big bowl of salad, you know what gives me my almost greatest sense of wellbeing?
May 04
I’m about to reveal something that may at first seem small-minded but in fact makes everything so much more blessedly expansive.