Face Your Fears: How to Handle Failure

Author: Alexandra Salerno, LPC, NCC Imagine you’re minutes away from giving one of the most important speeches of your career. You’ve prepared for this moment for months; reviewing and revising your thoughts, clarifying talking points, rehearsing out loud, and memorizing your lines. All of a sudden, a moment of dread hits and you think to yourself, “what if I mess up?” ...
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When The Steps Count!

Author: Alexandra Salerno, LPC, NCC And a 5-6-7-8! . . . For performers and dancers, part of the training process involves learning basic fundamentals in order to build on artistic skills. Basic fundamentals allow a performer to expand their knowledge of the activity they are preparing for (a dance concert) and mold them into becoming experts in their ability (technique; tu...
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The Best Time to Repair a Roof: Misconceptions about Mental Toughness and Mental Health

Author: Donato Fanelle, M.A. It’s usually when a storm hits and the water begins to leak through the ceiling that we notice our roof needs to be repaired. The roof provides protection from the storm, so it needs to be fixed – but it could be dangerous to climb up there to fix it in the midst of howling winds, treacherous rains, and booming cracks of lightning. It would be ...
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