by María Tomás-Keegan | Accepting & Adapting to Life's Change
Why does it even matter that you learn to adapt to change? For one thing, you can’t get away from it. Your life is designed for change. Babies are born and people die. You grow as a child and shrink as you get old. You gain weight, you lose weight. You awaken in a...
by María Tomás-Keegan | Resiliency & Building Confidence
Many people have advice about how to bounce back from failure. Just google it. As I look back over 30 years in the corporate world, I had my share of failures—failed hiring decisions, failed projects, failed promotion attempts. In life, too, I’ve seen failures—two...
by María Tomás-Keegan | Resiliency & Building Confidence
Finding hope after disappointment isn’t always easy. Disappointment comes when you expect something to happen or to be true and your expectation is unfulfilled. You’re let down by the circumstance or the person. This may cause you to feel deeply sad or betrayed....
by María Tomás-Keegan | Breakups, Grief & Loss
What I know for sure is this: after losing a loved one, what we might experience can vary widely—and the length of time grief lasts depends on many things. The relationship we shared with the one we lost—if we were close or we were estranged, if it was a member of our...
by María Tomás-Keegan | Accepting & Adapting to Life's Change
I remember well how I was feeling after an early turning point in my life. My second marriage ended badly, and I felt alone and isolated. It took several months for me to work through the emotions and stop pretending that I was okay. For the first time in a long time,...
