In honor of this season of love, I’m excited to share my first post NOT focused on taking a break from work. Dixon and I got married in June 2022 (after a one year COVID delay, weee) and it brought together two of my favorite things - love and positive psychology! I’m sharing because it seems so easy to get lost in wedding planning, and to lose yourself in the process. And folks often ask…
It is blowing my mind that I left my full-time job more than four months ago - does time go even faster when you’re NOT working? It’s been really interesting to see how time has changed when I don’t have structure. Days can get away from me. While working there were weeks that felt like months, like there was no way they would end or that I would make it through them. Now I wake…
In a nondescript Louisville restaurant, over conference lunch and a couple of beers, a small group of individuals came together to imagine a new academic advising community for NACADA, one focused on the well-being of all engaged in the advising project - staff and students alike. NACADA is the Global Community for Academic Advising; its website vision tells us that it's "the leading association globally for the advancement of student success through excellence in academic…