Burnout Risk is Greater in Pandemic Times, especially for Working Mothers!
Working mothers have been especially hard-hit by the pandemic. In addition to balancing their work responsibilities from home – many working remotely for the first time – they are also having ...
More Desperately Seeking Sanity: The Power of Casual Acquaintances
“Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.” Benjamin Franklin
I love Benjamin ...
How Does Working Affect Your Kids Over the Long Haul?
When I was researching depression in children of mothers who work, every mother I talked to worried that working might be negatively impacting their children’s development. They worried that they ...
From Frazzled to Composed in One Minute Flat!
Working mothers take everything they do seriously because they care. They care about their work and they care about their families (and generally not in that order), creating stress and guilt for ...
The Genesis
As a student in Martin Seligman’s Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at Penn (lovingly referred to as “MAPP”), I was in awe of him. When he singled me out one afternoon in October ...