by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Nov 25, 2022 | Blog
Giving is Receiving I grew up with the reminder that “it is better to give than to receive”. My mother was a thoughtful woman who sat me down after every gift occasion to write my thank you notes. That tradition occurred somewhere between the Renaissance and...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Nov 18, 2022 | Blog
Shout out Your Thanks One of my favorite Thanksgivings came many years ago when I flew back home to Michigan to surprise my family for the Holiday. I enrolled my sister in helping me and we just showed up for dinner that Thursday. The looks on their faces; the joy...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Nov 11, 2022 | Blog
Grateful for Everything I am pretty sure everyone knows there is a drought in California. So the last two days that beautiful white stuff has been falling from the sky into my backyard. I think it snowed continuously for 24 hours plus…and as I look out my study...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Nov 4, 2022 | Blog
Leading and Living from Heart The most important part of this shift is the change of mind to focus on the heart- to focus on a feeling rather than a set of facts or figures. Rather than everything that has been tried before; we try new tools and delve into new...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Oct 28, 2022 | Blog
Heart Centered Leadership For me, the new era for humanity calls for a new form of leadership with an emphasis on different qualities and different capacities. If we were to describe the era we are living through; I think it would contain a very masculine energy – a...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Oct 21, 2022 | Blog
The Infinite Intelligence In a podcast this week, with Deepak Chopra, he said the following: “The intellect cannot correct mistakes of the intellect.” It resonates with what Einstein said about solving problems. For me it speaks to the shift necessary to bring in...
