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How Do I Deal with Difficult Colleagues?
Wonderful coworkers make your job easier – maybe even make work fun. But those difficult colleagues can make meetings tense, team projects a nightmare, and increase your stress so much you consider leaving your job. So what do you do when you have to work with difficult colleagues?
Work Life Relationship Assessment Challenge
Make 2025 the year to improve your relationship with your work life. The beginning of a new year is a great time to reflect on how your relationship with your work is going. It may feel strange to think about having “a relationship” with your job. But just like any relationship, your relationship with work can go through periods of ups and downs, and get a little stale if not given attention.
When Work Knocks You Down: Recovering from Negative Job Experiences
There are many different ways that work can knock people down. I work with many people who have been knocked down by bad experiences in their jobs and I help them recover and move forward in their lives.
Will I Still Have a Job? Living with Job Insecurity
If you are one of the millions of Americans who live in fear that you may lose your job, you are not alone. How to manage the fear of losing your job without losing your mind.
Beyond Stressed: When Work Stress Becomes Job Burnout
Most people experience stressful times at work at some point in their life. When your work stress never seems to go down and the thought of going to work fills you with dread, you may be headed toward job burnout.