Sometimes there are hidden inspirations from our past tucked inside a simple career assessment.

Want to try a fun and interesting experiment? Take a free strengths and interests assessment, and see what career recommendations come up.

While you probably won’t be surprise...

Parents of young adults – has this ever happened to you?

You speak by phone with your young adult child, who lives in a different city.

The young adult is going through a particularly difficult – but "within-the-norm-stressful" (i.e., not depression, mental illness or ot...

You know the things people say to parents of kids with issues?

It doesn’t stop when the kids get older. But it does change a little bit.

It starts to concentrate around the “C” word ...

“Where is he applying to College?”

“Where is he going to college?” 

“Oh ... he’s not in...

by Ruth Kunstadter, MA, BCC

To family caregivers everywhere, who dedicate their lives and their selves to helping their loved one – a 24-hour-a-day job, seven days a week, because even when you’re not physically taking care of your family member, their care is always on...

Do you know about Coursera? For a lifelong learner and compulsive resource-gatherer like me, it's like being in a bookstore and having someone tell me I can have all the books I want, for free.

Oh wait, that's a library, and I already go to one religiously.

Here's anothe...

Q: When do you know that a new behavior has become not only a new habit, but a lifestyle change?

A: When you do it naturally, without thinking ... or even better, when you do think about it, and you want to do the new behavior over the old one. The old one just isn't "y...

Two weeks ago, I wrote about my Grown-Up Sticker Chart and my start with mini-habits.

And – no pun intended – I'm sticking with it!

But not without some crucial modifications, based on what I've been reading in Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results by Stephen Guise...

[Spoiler alert - if you haven't seen "The Shawshank Redemption, stop reading, and go watch it ... then come back and read this ...]

I'm Shawshanking my house.

Remember that scene at the end of "Shawshank Redemption," when we find out that Andy has been slowly digging out...

In life, we often are drawn to work with others on things we need to develop in ourselves, too. So it’s no surprise that one of the reasons I began my journey to become a coach is because I knew I wanted to create positive changes not just for other people, but for mys...