Posts Tagged ‘mental health’
Digital Detox III
A digital detox is unthinkable! Unbearable! Being without your personal digital connection to the world is almost impossible to imagine, even though many of us would agree that life would be better without it. Palm Trees We have incredible amounts of information and access right in the palms of our hands. Digital palm trees, with…
Read MoreMy Mental Health Experience
Since May is Mental Health Awareness Month, it’s a good opportunity for me to share my experience with anxiety and depression. I hope it helps someone. Or creates more awareness. Before I began writing, I asked a colleague if he thought it appropriate to write about my personal experiences with anxiety and depression in our…
Read MoreSimple Ways to Fall
I know a lot of simple ways to fall. Here’s a selection of my current favorites. I didn’t include the song I wrote, titled appropriately enough, A Simple Way to Fall. Perhaps I will in a future blog. Feel free to share your own simple ways. Fall Classic Indians and Cubs in the World Series. An…
Read MoreFall’s Final Show: Branding at Moments of Change
I’ve been taking Doctor C’s behavioral health branding message nationwide for the past year. This fall’s final show Moments of Change: Innovations in Integrated Treatment Conference, in Palm Beach Florida. We had a booth, me and Doctor C, and some great incentives. Our incentives were a bit different at this conference — Brand Therapy Sessions.…
Read MoreMotivation is a Marathon, Not a Sprint.
Motivation is a marathon, not a sprint. A fact I’ve always known but was (painfully) reminded of at our latest trade show, NATCON. While it was truly an impressive show and we had a great experience, both as exhibitors and attendees, it takes a lot of motivation to complete. Prep The preparation before all shows are intense,…
Read MoreMotivation and Madness in March
Motivation and madness in March — what am I talking about?! I have plenty of reasons to be motivated this sunny month of March. I’m totally motivated after spending a couple days at the NATCON16 Show in Las Vegas. Me, Kimberly and Doctor C welcomed hundreds of people into our booth (not all at once,…
Read MoreUP JUMPED SPRING! MOTIVATION
My motivation is being hit with a case of Up Jumped Spring, one of my favorite seasonal jazz tunes, and one of Freddie Hubbard’s best. It’s a tune that feels like what happens when spring jumps up (thankfully a bit early this year). It’s a tune that feels like what happens when spring jumps up (thankfully…
Read MoreThe Leap to a New Brand
How do you know if you are ready to make the leap to a new brand? There’s a reason the biggest brands are always working on their own brands, and that every brand of any substance has a brand manager, or a whole team, to care for it. It’s because a brand is a super…
Read MoreMy Year in Review
This is my year in review. 2015 has definitely affirmed what I want to do with designRoom Creative. I’m intensely grateful for the people I’ve met, the work we’ve done, and the exciting projects to come. So I’ve put together kind of a list of reverse-resolutions – things that I totally would have wished for…
Read MoreSemicolon
I like to use a semicolon. A semicolon can serve a good purpose in a sentence and a story, as a substantive pause; a signal to breathe that doesn’t impede forward progress. For me and many others, it’s also an icon. A message. And a movement — the Semicolon Project. I wear a semicolon on my…
Read MoreLet’s Face Heroin Addiction
We shared this heroin addiction campaign blog a year ago. It is reposted because the situation is not getting better. (Blog amended and edited on September 29, 2016.) After hearing and reading comments from good, smart people saying how pissed they are at the cost of an Epipen versus an overdosing addict’s access to Narcan and that we…
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