The Heart of Healing

Stress

6 Ways to Transform From Headcase to Shero

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on April 12, 2024

Your performance is more than cognitive and physical preparation. Your mental game—managing your self-talk and emotions—is just as important. Here's why.

Your performance is more than cognitive and physical preparation. Your mental game—managing your self-talk and emotions—is just as important. Here's why.

Leadership

Path to True Self: What’s Missing in My View of the World

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on November 3, 2023

Personal Perspective: When leadership senses and prioritizes the needs of the community over profit, more effective, meaningful, and sustainable outcomes may result.

Personal Perspective: When leadership senses and prioritizes the needs of the community over profit, more effective, meaningful, and sustainable outcomes may result.

Stress

The Path to Your True Self: Moving Out of Chaos

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on October 27, 2023

Personal Perspective: Life can feel chaotic, especially if we do not have the tools to proactively cultivate a peaceful and healthy mindset.

Personal Perspective: Life can feel chaotic, especially if we do not have the tools to proactively cultivate a peaceful and healthy mindset.

Emotion Regulation

The Path to Your True Self: What’s Missing in How I Feel

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on October 2, 2023

A Personal Perspective: I've learned that gifts and healing lie just beneath the feelings I've been trying to avoid.

A Personal Perspective: I've learned that gifts and healing lie just beneath the feelings I've been trying to avoid.

Authenticity

Path to Your True Self: The Relationship With Yourself

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on September 13, 2023

A Personal Perspective: Is your self-care routine barely scratching the surface? Maybe you need to rethink your focus and strategy.

A Personal Perspective: Is your self-care routine barely scratching the surface? Maybe you need to rethink your focus and strategy.

Career

What’s Missing at Work

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on August 30, 2023

Personal Perspective: Whether you "should" choose a career versus full-time parenting or some other path depends on what feels most authentic to you.

Personal Perspective: Whether you "should" choose a career versus full-time parenting or some other path depends on what feels most authentic to you.

Authenticity

Path to Your True Self: The Cover-Up

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on August 15, 2023

Personal Perspective: Fostering self-awareness about why we cover our true selves can help us understand how to foster greater authenticity.

Personal Perspective: Fostering self-awareness about why we cover our true selves can help us understand how to foster greater authenticity.

Authenticity

The Path to Your True Self: Uncover What’s Missing in Your Life

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on August 8, 2023

If you have it all but feel like something is missing, consider whether it's your true self. Uncover your authenticity and maybe you'll start to feel more whole.

If you have it all but feel like something is missing, consider whether it's your true self. Uncover your authenticity and maybe you'll start to feel more whole.

Relationships

How to Turn Difficult People Into Your Teachers

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on May 30, 2023

Challenging situations can help us improve our self-awareness and develop skills that can serve us throughout our lives.

Challenging situations can help us improve our self-awareness and develop skills that can serve us throughout our lives.

Education

Another Day, Another Lemonade Moment

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on May 8, 2023

A Personal Perspective: Don't keep suffering from stress. Get to the root of what feels most challenging with these four nourishing practices.

A Personal Perspective: Don't keep suffering from stress. Get to the root of what feels most challenging with these four nourishing practices.

Career

Why Focusing on the Bottom Line Can Actually Hurt Profits

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on April 21, 2023

Focusing on profits to the exclusion of the care of workers can undermine your long-term goals. Here are five ways to cultivate the best performance from your team.

Focusing on profits to the exclusion of the care of workers can undermine your long-term goals. Here are five ways to cultivate the best performance from your team.

Leadership

5 Mistakes New Leaders Make and How to Avoid Them

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on March 27, 2023

Stepping into a new leadership role can be hard, but preparation and intentionality can go a long way towards creating a smooth transition.

Stepping into a new leadership role can be hard, but preparation and intentionality can go a long way towards creating a smooth transition.

Fear

Quelling the Fear of Missing Out by Pursuing Purpose

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on March 9, 2023

A Personal Perspective: Though pursuing a calling or a deeply resonant purpose can feel exhilarating, it is not necessarily restricted to the most exciting times.

A Personal Perspective: Though pursuing a calling or a deeply resonant purpose can feel exhilarating, it is not necessarily restricted to the most exciting times.

Education

You Have It All. Now What?

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on February 6, 2023

You've played by all the rules, yet the promised happiness feels so elusive. Here's a way to get out of feeling stuck.

You've played by all the rules, yet the promised happiness feels so elusive. Here's a way to get out of feeling stuck.

Health

Staying Chill During the Holiday Season

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on December 12, 2022

Turn your love–hate relationship with the holidays into a blessing that lasts all year.

Turn your love–hate relationship with the holidays into a blessing that lasts all year.

Deception

Turning Your Strengths Into Superpowers

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on November 29, 2022

Even the most successful career and life can feel ho-hum if it does not feel authentic. Shift your perspective and focus to pursue the life that makes you feel vibrant and alive.

Even the most successful career and life can feel ho-hum if it does not feel authentic. Shift your perspective and focus to pursue the life that makes you feel vibrant and alive.

Personality

4 Ways to Become Your Best Self

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on October 27, 2022

It's hard to be your best self when you're trying to be someone else. Practice self-awareness. You may discover how incredible you really are.

It's hard to be your best self when you're trying to be someone else. Practice self-awareness. You may discover how incredible you really are.

Relationships

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on October 3, 2022

Ignoring potential conflict actually fosters disputes and leads to missed chances to deepen connection. Here's how to make the most of inevitable disagreements.

Ignoring potential conflict actually fosters disputes and leads to missed chances to deepen connection. Here's how to make the most of inevitable disagreements.

Relationships

6 Ways to Build Intimacy and Trust

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on September 19, 2022

Intimacy is often easier said than done. Here's how you can move from listening and learning to effective action.

Intimacy is often easier said than done. Here's how you can move from listening and learning to effective action.

Relationships

Intimacy Matters: 5 Practices for Deep Listening

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on August 31, 2022

If healthy, intimate relationships feel beyond reach, make sure you read this.

If healthy, intimate relationships feel beyond reach, make sure you read this.