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Anxiety over the New Normal
Career & Business / Covid / Press / Relationships
As of this writing, the Philippine government has not lifted the quarantine measures and there are no solutions in sight to handle the Wuhan virus and its effects on the…
Support for OFW
As the lockdown continues, there are soaring cases of child and spousal abuse. In this session, laws for protection are discussed. https://www.facebook.com/watchparty/3286683608032604/?entry_source=FEED
Stress in time of the Wuhan Virus
Covid / Mind & Meaning / Personal / Press
In this webinar, I talk about handling stress in the ‘new normal.’ The seafarers have such a challenge during this time because of the loss of a sizeable income plus…
Discussing the Mental Health Law with Sen. Risa Hontiveros
Covid / Leadership / Press
Guesting with Senator Risa Hontiveros is one of my highlights during Covid-19. The are so many bills she has filed for Mental Health as well as supports for the OFW…
WHERE IS SUZY
Narrative Training
Professional Development / Where is Suzy
Keeping up the pace and learning still more new interventions makes me more resourced to work the toughest cases. Incest and abuse cases are often inter-generational patterns of abuse that…
Rorschach!
Professional Development / Where is Suzy
That’s the Rorschach class late Thursday evening group coding a protocol as part of the learning process. here we are trying to code “dead bugs” on a rainy night. My…
Resource Speaker for PVPI on Wellness in the workplace
Mental Health Speaker for Wellness in the Workplace My career has taken an unexpected turn …a happy happy turn of events. Because the pandemic has side-lined health in the workplace,…
Associate Professor at iAcademy
Professional Development / Where is Suzy
Class of 2021 in Human Development Starting out the new year as an Associate Professor at Iacademy. Never thought I would end up in the academe ..yet it has been…
POWER WITHIN
Thinking Abundance Helps to Create Abundance
Covid / Personal / Power Within
Scarcity mentality Scarcity mindset or scarcity mentality in simplest terms is the belief that you will never be or have enough –whether its money, food, emotions —and as a result,…
Focus on Your Strengths When in Crisis
Covid / Mind & Meaning / Personal / Power Within
Covid-19 Challenge: Focusing on your strengths makes you more resilient Focus on your strengths We all have strengths: things we are good at; have thinking strategies that have to help…
Creativity adds to Resilience
Covid / Leadership / Power Within
Cover-19 Challenge: Creativity is Key CreativityResilience can be cultivated by boosting creativity. We are creative when we turn imaginative ideas into reality, or when we find new ways and ingenious…
Initiatives for Staying Safe During Covid-19, a psychological perspective
Covid / Personal / Power Within / Press
Guesting with UST Medical Technology Group to suggest positive ways of coping It has been close to 2 months since the ECQ and mental health issues abound. In this video,…
PERSONAL
We are still at Covid and its almost a year now
We started the lockdown on March 13, 2020 and its now January 13, 2021. While there are vaccines on the horizon, the implementation of the inoculation plan or the availability…
Getting out of Conflict
Covid / Mind & Meaning / Personal
It remains a tough time mentally, physically, and emotionally as the Philippines remains in lockdown for over 3 months and no vaccine in sight. On top of this, the political…
Support for OFW
As the lockdown continues, there are soaring cases of child and spousal abuse. In this session, laws for protection are discussed. https://www.facebook.com/watchparty/3286683608032604/?entry_source=FEED
Stress in time of the Wuhan Virus
Covid / Mind & Meaning / Personal / Press
In this webinar, I talk about handling stress in the ‘new normal.’ The seafarers have such a challenge during this time because of the loss of a sizeable income plus…
MIND & MEANING
Staying Strong During the Pandemic
Strengths are a shortcut to wellness It is easy to stay strong when we focus on our strengths because doing so gives us an immediate lift. It is more fun…
Getting out of Conflict
Covid / Mind & Meaning / Personal
It remains a tough time mentally, physically, and emotionally as the Philippines remains in lockdown for over 3 months and no vaccine in sight. On top of this, the political…
Stress in time of the Wuhan Virus
Covid / Mind & Meaning / Personal / Press
In this webinar, I talk about handling stress in the ‘new normal.’ The seafarers have such a challenge during this time because of the loss of a sizeable income plus…
Meaning Making in time of Wuhan Virus
Covid / Mind & Meaning / Personal
Gian Gallegos is the quintessential spirit of joie de vivre! Such an engaging spirit It is over 40 days in quarantine and no solution is in sight. No vaccine, no…
LEADERSHIP
Getting from ‘No’ to ‘Yes’
Many tense up in negotiations and feel that ‘it is not going my way’ when client thumbs down their offer. They don’t realize that the ‘thumbs down’ is the best…
Resource Speaker for PVPI on Wellness in the workplace
Mental Health Speaker for Wellness in the Workplace My career has taken an unexpected turn …a happy happy turn of events. Because the pandemic has side-lined health in the workplace,…
Its a Wrap! Batch 8 of Ideaspace
Its amazing how these young guys had the grit to stick it though with their businesses despite the Pandemic. While big businesses close down, senior workers lose hope, designers and…
Art of Negotiation
Career & Business / Leadership / Relationships
Negotiations get stuck when there is a desire to put one over the other. The winner-takes-all mentality makes us do things which undermine honesty, integrity, and often lead to negativity,…
ABUSE
Women and Depression
Abuse / Mind & Meaning / Relationships
Studies worldwide indicate that women are at the greatest risk of developing depressive disorders in their 40s. The vulnerable state, hormonal fluctuations, role-stress, victimization, sex specific socialization, internalized coping style…
Working with OFW Families: Seafarers Workshop
Abuse / Personal / Relationships
Arianne Blanche, Advocate for Seafarers Wellness under CF Sharp Working with Arianne through the years has been very very fulfilling. Through her company, CF Sharp, we have been able to…
Yes, We Can Do More
Abuse / Mind & Meaning / Power Within
School of Life Management Team: Planning Workshop for the Beneficiaries Oftentimes, the problems of the broken hearted appear insurmountable. oftentimes, it feels like its useless to work on things. But,…
The Words That Cannot Be Said
Rape and Incest bring so much shame to the victim that they cannot even bring themselves to say the words. They stumble, hide behind their hair, eat the words, wring…
CAREER & BUSINESS
Staying Employed During Covid
As cover rages on, many continue to lose work opportunities. Many executives are fearful to lose jobs and sources of income that it builds anxiety and worry. Having worked both…
Art of Negotiation
Career & Business / Leadership / Relationships
Negotiations get stuck when there is a desire to put one over the other. The winner-takes-all mentality makes us do things which undermine honesty, integrity, and often lead to negativity,…
Anxiety over the New Normal
Career & Business / Covid / Press / Relationships
As of this writing, the Philippine government has not lifted the quarantine measures and there are no solutions in sight to handle the Wuhan virus and its effects on the…
SUICIDE
Cover Continues to Ravage
Covid / Suicide / Where is Suzy
As cover 19 continues to rave the Philippines, many of our brothers and sisters contemplate subside, fall into depression, become anxious. As a largely catholic nation, reliance and interpretation of…
RELATIONSHIPS
Art of Negotiation
Career & Business / Leadership / Relationships
Negotiations get stuck when there is a desire to put one over the other. The winner-takes-all mentality makes us do things which undermine honesty, integrity, and often lead to negativity,…
Anxiety over the New Normal
Career & Business / Covid / Press / Relationships
As of this writing, the Philippine government has not lifted the quarantine measures and there are no solutions in sight to handle the Wuhan virus and its effects on the…
You are Always Enough
Covid / Personal / Relationships
Covid-19 Challenge: Take care of yourself because you are always enough Feeling enough Our minds cannot help but compare ourselves to others all the time. There are many reasons why…
