by Mary Henton | May 7, 2021 | Learning, Personal development
Panicked, frightened, confused, and furious, I called my Al-Anon sponsor. My sixteen-year-old daughter had just stormed out of the house in a rage. I don’t remember the inciting incident. I just remember what I felt: worry, anger, fear, and everything in between. An...
by Mary Henton | Apr 1, 2021 | Learning, Personal development
Five years ago, in 2016, while living in Beni, DRC, I wrote the following reflection. As I reread it recently, I realized I’ve neglected to look for small resurrections this past year. It’s time to open my eyes and my heart again. On Good Friday I began rereading Nora...
by Mary Henton | Mar 4, 2021 | Personal development
A client recently asked, “Can we talk about multitasking? I know the research says there’s really no such thing. But I to do it anyway.” Yup. Who hasn’t tried to wrangle the multitasking beast? We answer a phone call while we’re writing an email. We...
by Mary Henton | Jan 21, 2021 | Learning, Personal development
It had not been an easy week. Competing needs crowded me like mad shoppers on black Friday, jostling and tugging, refusing to queue up or take a number for service. Then my computer, which had been suffering some maladies for the previous three months,...