by Pam Hernandez | May 27, 2021 | Compassion, Mindfulness, Personal Growth, Relationships, Well-being, Women
I have been reading Pema Chodron’s book, Start Where You Are, and the above quote jumped off the page at me. What followed was a beautiful description of gloriousness and wretchedness and the necessity of both in our lives. “Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us,...
by Pam Hernandez | Oct 21, 2020 | Change, Personal Growth, Well-being
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort” Jane Austen We have a vacation home in the mountains of Colorado and my daughter has been living there during the pandemic. Well, the fires got a little too close, so she packed up and moved to our home in...
by Pam Hernandez | Jul 3, 2020 | Change, Covid-19, Generations, History, Well-being
I was awake this morning from 3:00 am on (not an unusual occurrence since the pandemic.) It’s at this time that personal, professional and global anxieties arrive unbidden and settle in for a few cozy hours of certain insomnia. After an hour of tossing, turning and...
by Pam Hernandez | Apr 9, 2020 | Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Personal Growth, Relationships, Self Acceptance, Well-being
Here is the entire stanza from a William Wordsmith’s poem published in 1807. So once it would have been—’tis so no more; I have submitted to a new control: A power is gone, which nothing can restore; A deep distress hath humanized my soul. Very prescient words...
by Pam Hernandez | Feb 27, 2020 | Children, Fathers, Mothers, Personal Growth, Well-being
I’ve never paid much attention to Dolly Parton. I’ve admired her for being her own person and doing exactly what she wanted, but I haven’t listened to her music or visited Dollywood in Tennessee. A friend recently recommended the podcast “Dolly Parton’s America.” I...
by Pam Hernandez | Dec 31, 2019 | Career, Change, Coaching, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Mindfulness, Self Acceptance, Well-being
I have been trying to not binge watch the newest season of The Crown. I like to stretch out the pleasure. Unfortunately, I’m already through episode 7. The episode that has touched me so far (whether or not it is historically accurate) is the episode where men walk on...