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• Feeling busy? Create healthy routines using habit science
  March 20, 2023 by Melanie Cuchna
  In 2022, my husband and I became first-time parents. While we were overwhelmed with joy and excitement when welcoming our son into the world, we learned quickly that we were not immune to the juggling act of being full-time working parents.
• Grit and Taxes
  March 8, 2023 by Kennneth G. Brown, Ph.D.
  Successful people find areas of interest, develop those interests into a passion, and keep going despite inevitable setbacks.
• I am Here to Listen: Empathy Over Judgment
  February 28, 2023 by Karyn Robertson
  Empathy has no script. There is no right or wrong way to do it. It's simply listening, holding safe space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of “you are not alone.”
• A Lesson from the Macbride Nature Recreation Area
  February 20, 2023 by Ellen Carman
  I grew up visiting Iowa’s field campus, the Macbride Nature Recreation Area (MNRA), home to my earliest memories of exploring outdoors. It is the place with the “little house” in the forest, in which my sister and I would peer out the window at the bird feeders, counting the songbirds and making up names for […]
• Bouncing Back as a Leader
  February 14, 2023 by Amy Kristof-Brown
  As a college dean who began my position on March 1, 2020, and then closed all in-person activities 13 days later, I’m often asked to comment on the topic of resiliency. Resiliency is the ability to recover from traumatic or cumulative stresses. Early research on resilience emphasized the role of genetics – as in “some […]