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...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Oct 14, 2022 | Blog
Meaningful Solutions It might have been Freud who said doing the same thing over and over expecting different results could be the definition of insanity. When I look across the landscape of events- from stock market losses to gas prices (here in CA at $7 plus...