Building Resilience When the Future Feels Unsteady
Resilience—the capacity to adapt, recover, and keep moving forward—is a mental skillset that matters more than ever in a world defined by rapid change, economic uncertainty, and constant information overload. For people who feel anxious about what lies ahead, future-proofing the mind isn’t about predicting outcomes; it’s about strengthening how you meet whatever comes next. A Quick Orientation Before We…
Shifting Your Teen’s Relationship with Social Media
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and author of the book, Calming Teenage Anxiety: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Your Teenager Cope with Worry, I am frequently asked about the relationship between adolescent anxiety and current social media use. While it is near impossible to disregard the impact of social media on teen mental health, I do not recommend prohibiting…
The Wellness Reframe: The Strategic Power of Doing Nothing
I used to think rest days were for quitters. Then plantar fasciitis—and too many injuries—taught me otherwise. In a fitness culture that glorifies the grind, doing nothing feels like giving up. But what if your rest days are the most important training days of all? Rest isn't weakness. It's wisdom. Learning About Recovery the Hard Way Mid-40s. Marathon training. Convinced…
The Wellness Reframe: Why Joy Is Your Best Fitness Plan
What if the thing sabotaging your fitness isn’t lack of discipline—but lack of joy? When the Steps Didn’t Count My husband Bill and I spent a long weekend in Seattle walking everywhere. Downtown to Ballard, across the University of Washington campus, up Queen Anne Hill. Miles and miles. At day’s end, Bill checked his Apple Health: “15,000 steps!” I checked…
The Resilient Athlete: What the Olympics Teach Us About Life
Every two years, the Olympics remind us of something that’s easy to forget in everyday life: performance at the highest level is rarely about a single result—let alone a single season. We see athletes at the top of their game, producing incredible performances, often on the verge of impossible (especially when a medal is decided by a hundredth of a…
Tech Life with Taino: Disconnect To Connect
Connect = Bind Together The word “Connected” comes from the Latin con (together) and nectere (bind). One definition is [associate or relate (something) in some respect], and another is [bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established.]. In everyday usage, connected simply means reachable, connected to the internet. But consider that... when we connect…
How to Integrate Winter Olympics Sports At Home
On a trip to Europe a few years ago, I multisported all over and around the city of Cortina in the Italian Dolomite Region, climbing mountains and via ferratas, biking in the Alps, hiking, and even kayaking and swimming on the not-far coast. Multisport is two or more human-powered sport modes combined and done in bouts together. Home to the…
The Body Mind Connection: A Stoic Approach to Well-Being
As a licensed clinical mental health counselor, I’m very much aware of how common it is for people to experience worry, heaviness, and a sense of being overwhelmed. Much of this worry centers on control, wanting certainty in uncertain situations, and reassurance in a world that constantly changes. Clients of mine often feel caught in routines that leave little room…
Tech/Life with Taino: How to Create Resolutions That Stick
Given up your New Year resolution yet? A majority of people have given up on the habits from their New Year resolution by February. Whether it is around 50% as some studies indicate or as high as 80% does not really matter. What matters is that we can change it. Let’s start by looking at what a habit is. Habits…
The Resilient Athlete: Training For The Long Game
There comes a point in every athlete’s life when the question shifts. It’s no longer “How much can I squeeze out of myself?” but rather “How do I keep doing this well for as long as possible?” That moment usually arrives sometime after 40 (for some as early as 30). Not because the love for sport fades – if anything,…
Easy Daily Habits to Improve Health
Busy parents, caregivers, and working adults juggling deadlines, commutes, and family needs often hit the same wall: energy drops, stress stays high, and healthy intentions get pushed to “later.” The hardest part of modern work-life balance health strategies is that most advice assumes extra time, steady motivation, and perfect follow-through. What helps most is a holistic wellness system that fits…
