by Laurie Strand | Nov 1, 2025 | Blog Post, Gratitude, Resilience, Uncategorized
Happy Season of Gratitude. I’m so grateful you’ve decided to pause within your busy lives and day to read this note — truly, thank you. Over the past few months, I’ve been deeply immersed in resiliency-informed workplace work. We can’t teach individuals to regulate,...
by Laurie Strand | Sep 1, 2025 | Anxiety Relief, Blog Post, Self Help, Uncategorized
You are not your stress. You are not your stress response. I am not my stress response! 🙂 Believing this is hard enough on a “normal” day… but especially difficult and important in times of uncertainty, periods of transition, loss, or change. All of us experience our...
by Laurie Strand | Aug 1, 2025 | Blog Post, Self Help, Uncategorized
Summer is in full swing, and I can feel it. There’s a palpable energy to the season—sometimes a little frantic—the do-do-do, go-go-go kind: BBQs, squeezing in one more bike ride, hiking, swimming, tending the garden, finding time to lounge in the sunshine. And yet,...
by Laurie Strand | Jun 1, 2025 | Anxiety Relief, Blog Post, Self Help, Uncategorized
I’m sitting here in my cozy office on a rainy June day, listening to the creek and the soft sounds of summer drifting in through the sliding door. Outside, a fully leafed-out cottonwood tree sways gently. Even as I write these words, I feel more spacious inside — a...
