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It’s About the Practice
Growing with Your Strengths to Be Your Best As a middle schooler I wanted to go to the Juilliard School of Music as a Flute Performance Major. I knew what I wanted so I practiced twice as long as I was instructed to and gradually increased until I was practicing 2-hours a day. Often I…
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Sandy White Beaches or Seaweed Scum?
I sat on the edge of the ocean, sunlight glistening off the surface, surrounded by beauty. I was up early, like usual. My morning routine consistent, even while on vacation. My toes were broken on my left foot which decreased my love of early morning workouts. I sat, instead, exhausted and overwhelmed. My journal in…
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Stuck It Out or Hide under the Table?
I wanted to crawl under the table. My first official volunteer opportunity to sit on a Board of Directors, a bucket-list item for me, was only a few months underway and I was way over my head. It was during the Covid-19 Pandemic so each member of the board sat at tables distanced from each…
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Guard your Heart and Find the Skill
She was melting at the table, forecasting her own demise. “I’m terrible at this and I’ll always be terrible at this,” she yelled over her homework, her little 7-year-old body sinking into a puddle of despair. We have all been there. Something is just a bit too difficult and we determine our outcome based on…
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Lost? Find Your Way Again
I lost my youngest at Disneyland. I know I am not alone in this, but in the moment, it feels like you are the only mother on the planet who would have the ability to loose your kid at Disneyland. We were there for one day. The parade was about to start and I had…
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Excellence Rewritten
There was a mushroom in my meal at a nice restaurant in San Fransisco at the beginning of my birthday weekend in wine country. The lightheaded, tired sensation which begins my reaction came quickly. I have a chronic mold allergy which is managed well unless an unforeseen exposure to fungi occurs. So annoying. Some explosives…
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Excellence in Life’s Challenges
What makes you think of when you hear the word “discipline”? I have been listening to a book which includes instructions on personal discipline in the areas of daily focus and morning routines in order to start every day with excellence. After the work I have been doing this past year with energy zones this…
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Excellence in the Midst of Pain
At 11-years-old my education in pain began after a muscle injury in my neck. As I grew older I would learn about many kinds of pain, but my first lesson was on muscle pain. The second lesson was on the pain of sadness and grief. Pain began to diminish my ability to perform my normal…
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Resiliency in Efficiency
“Resilience” has been the buzz word for 2021, at least in my world. I spent the year learning about and working through my own understanding about resilience. As I dove deeper into the discussion, my ears would perk up anytime I heard even a faint whisper of the topic. This past fall I discovered some…
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Reputation vs. Integrity
I thought upholding my reputation was the key to success. I was wrong. I work in an industry where valuing the dignity of all humans and providing excellent nursing care is honored and celebrated. My reputation as a nurse is as good as my work. I choose, whenever it is in my ability, to be…
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Stephanie Trowbridge 