The Energizer Blog

When Robert Frost penned, “good fences make good neighbors”, he was thinking of sheep wandering to a neighbor’s garden.

As we start back this school season, I believe United World College Costa Rica has lessons for each of us about resilience.

Read Senator Tammy Duckworth’s memoir of the same title and you will be awestruck by the courage, tenacity, and resilience...

What would people say about you when you die? It’s a question we rarely ask ourselves...

We often relate grieving to the loss of a person. Did you know you can go through the cycle of grieving when you sell or give away something

If you want to model truth and trust, ask the people around you how often you engage in these behaviors.

They call the millennial generation the burned-out generation for a reason. Why?

The first practice to cultivate resilience is to accept what is given. Denying reality will never produce the variety of potential responses

Certainly, 2020 and into 2021 have been marked by tremendous loss. First, for many of us, we lost parents, siblings, children, and...

Heather Hansen offers a fascinating guest post in which she explores the power of words to influence how we feel and act in life.

Consider these stats from a recent OXFORD REPORT:

Resiliency is a life skill, offering those of us who use growth potential strategies (GPS) as a way to become wiser, stronger, and better...

I’m betting that few people knew Spencer Ferguson Silver III who died May 8, 2021, at his home in Minneapolis.

it seems that we’ll be entering a hybrid work world where some fashion of remote work remains. Resilience will be a skill to cultivate.

Quick! What do old denim jeans, wine corks and ice cream have in common? Nope—not a funky picnic!

April 22 – Earth Day-- has come and gone. But for those of us committed to saving a planet, the work is never over. And for my...

Three days ago, I got word that Dr. Jeff Salz, my cultural anthropologist friend and adventure traveler died from COVID 19 in Ecuador.

Our recent national struggles have motivated me to revisit our nation’s history and dig deeper into how we got here. It’s also ruffled my...

The world is slowly opening. Hopefully, our first trip will be to drive in mid-June to Corbett, Oregon. We haven't seen our daughter, her...

Post-Covid: It’s time for new, simple, daily practices that change your day, and your life.