Burnout and the Bleeding Eye
My burnout story will sound like so many others, except that it's mine and therefore unique in the way I experienced it. It was not the trauma of 16-hour hospital shifts dealing with COVID, or of a social worker with double the acceptable caseload, or the public...
Sensitive and Strong AF
For as long as I can remember, I felt different than those around me. It was hard to pinpoint why as a child, but it had something to do with how I experienced the world. I did not have language for it at the time, so we called it anxiety. My earliest memory of this...
Lucky Shot
I did not find photography. Photography found me. It came at a time when my children were more independent, and my career was stable, but I craved creative expression. Photography was an outlet for everything I felt in midlife, the spectrum of complex human emotions—from despair to passion.
I was published in NCDA Career Convergence Web Magazine!
I recently had to privilege of contributing to the NCDA Career Convergence Web Magazine with my published article "Helping Highly Sensitive Persons Navigate the Work Environment and Thrive" . Click here to read more:...
My Dad’s Masterclass in Energy Leadership
It was June 2022, just three weeks before my dad passed, that I became familiar with the concepts of Energy Leadership. It was introduced to me as a self-awareness model, a mirror that was held up to our consciousness. I was skeptical about the word “energy”. I am an...
The Messy Middle of Career Transitions
It was early January 2023, and I had been reflecting on the "who" of "who I serve" in an effort to better define my career niche. And then, there it was. I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast when these words brought tremendous clarity: There are too...
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Burnout and the Bleeding Eye
My burnout story will sound like so many others, except that it's mine and therefore unique in the way I experienced it. It was not the trauma of 16-hour hospital shifts dealing with COVID, or of a social worker with double the acceptable caseload, or the public...
Sensitive and Strong AF
For as long as I can remember, I felt different than those around me. It was hard to pinpoint why as a child, but it had something to do with how I experienced the world. I did not have language for it at the time, so we called it anxiety. My earliest memory of this...
Lucky Shot
My Guest Post in Amid Life - on lessons learned from my camera about adapting as a highly sensitive person. Click here to read the post: https://open.substack.com/pub/catherinehpalmer/p/lucky-shot-guest-post-by-tiffany?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
I was published in NCDA Career Convergence Web Magazine!
I recently had to privilege of contributing to the NCDA Career Convergence Web Magazine with my published article "Helping Highly Sensitive Persons Navigate the Work Environment and Thrive" . Click here to read more:...
My Dad’s Masterclass in Energy Leadership
It was June 2022, just three weeks before my dad passed, that I became familiar with the concepts of Energy Leadership. It was introduced to me as a self-awareness model, a mirror that was held up to our consciousness. I was skeptical about the word “energy”. I am an...
The Messy Middle of Career Transitions
It was early January 2023, and I had been reflecting on the "who" of "who I serve" in an effort to better define my career niche. And then, there it was. I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast when these words brought tremendous clarity: There are too...
A Loaded Question
I was at the UMass accepted students' open house on a bright April morning with my son, a high school senior at the time. As we walked through the Campus Center, two enthusiastic young women from the admissions office introduced themselves and asked if we'd like to...
When Advice Is Not the Answer
Advice can be useful. Oxford Languages defines it as a noun: recommendations offered with regard to prudent future action. It’s great when you want to learn which cars are fuel efficient, how to correct for too much salt in your recipe, how to asset allocate your 401k...
Supporting Employees in Grief
It’s part of the universal human experience: to grieve someone we love. It happens when we least expect it, and when we’ve been expecting it for years. It happens to young and old, in ways that may feel violently unfair and unjust, and also in beautiful and sacred...
The Great “_________________” (Defining New Awareness from the Pandemic)
As a lover of language, I am a sucker for a good title. When the words “Great Resignation” started to trend, they caught like wildfire; they spread like the Delta variant. Perhaps because the words were relatable; the pandemic made so many of us weary of long days at...