The Heart of Healing

Relationships

How to Turn Difficult People Into Your Teachers

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on May 30, 2023

Challenging situations can help us improve our self-awareness and develop skills that can serve us throughout our lives.

Challenging situations can help us improve our self-awareness and develop skills that can serve us throughout our lives.

Stress

Another Day, Another Lemonade Moment

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on May 8, 2023

A Personal Perspective: Don't keep suffering from stress. Get to the root of what feels most challenging with these four nourishing practices.

A Personal Perspective: Don't keep suffering from stress. Get to the root of what feels most challenging with these four nourishing practices.

Career

Why Focusing on the Bottom Line Can Actually Hurt Profits

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on April 21, 2023

Focusing on profits to the exclusion of the care of workers can undermine your long-term goals. Here are five ways to cultivate the best performance from your team.

Focusing on profits to the exclusion of the care of workers can undermine your long-term goals. Here are five ways to cultivate the best performance from your team.

Leadership

5 Mistakes New Leaders Make and How to Avoid Them

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on March 27, 2023

Stepping into a new leadership role can be hard, but preparation and intentionality can go a long way towards creating a smooth transition.

Stepping into a new leadership role can be hard, but preparation and intentionality can go a long way towards creating a smooth transition.

Fear

Quelling the Fear of Missing Out by Pursuing Purpose

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on March 9, 2023

A Personal Perspective: Though pursuing a calling or a deeply resonant purpose can feel exhilarating, it is not necessarily restricted to the most exciting times.

A Personal Perspective: Though pursuing a calling or a deeply resonant purpose can feel exhilarating, it is not necessarily restricted to the most exciting times.

Education

You Have It All. Now What?

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on February 6, 2023

You've played by all the rules, yet the promised happiness feels so elusive. Here's a way to get out of feeling stuck.

You've played by all the rules, yet the promised happiness feels so elusive. Here's a way to get out of feeling stuck.

Stress

Staying Chill During the Holiday Season

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on December 12, 2022

Turn your love–hate relationship with the holidays into a blessing that lasts all year.

Turn your love–hate relationship with the holidays into a blessing that lasts all year.

Career

Turning Your Strengths Into Superpowers

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on November 29, 2022

Even the most successful career and life can feel ho-hum if it does not feel authentic. Shift your perspective and focus to pursue the life that makes you feel vibrant and alive.

Even the most successful career and life can feel ho-hum if it does not feel authentic. Shift your perspective and focus to pursue the life that makes you feel vibrant and alive.

Personality

4 Ways to Become Your Best Self

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on October 27, 2022

It's hard to be your best self when you're trying to be someone else. Practice self-awareness. You may discover how incredible you really are.

It's hard to be your best self when you're trying to be someone else. Practice self-awareness. You may discover how incredible you really are.

Relationships

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on October 3, 2022

Ignoring potential conflict actually fosters disputes and leads to missed chances to deepen connection. Here's how to make the most of inevitable disagreements.

Ignoring potential conflict actually fosters disputes and leads to missed chances to deepen connection. Here's how to make the most of inevitable disagreements.

Relationships

6 Ways to Build Intimacy and Trust

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on September 19, 2022

Intimacy is often easier said than done. Here's how you can move from listening and learning to effective action.

Intimacy is often easier said than done. Here's how you can move from listening and learning to effective action.

Relationships

Intimacy Matters: 5 Practices for Deep Listening

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on August 31, 2022

If healthy, intimate relationships feel beyond reach, make sure you read this.

If healthy, intimate relationships feel beyond reach, make sure you read this.

Relationships

6 Ways Intimate Partners Can Communicate Their Needs

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on August 15, 2022

If it feels like something is missing in your relationship, you can transform it with some effort and commitment.

If it feels like something is missing in your relationship, you can transform it with some effort and commitment.

Relationships

6 Keys to Truly Healthy Intimate Relationships

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on August 1, 2022

If you feel like something's missing in your most important relationships, it might help to create more intimacy in your connection.

If you feel like something's missing in your most important relationships, it might help to create more intimacy in your connection.

Relationships

The Importance of Rapport

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on June 30, 2022

Have trouble connecting with others? Creating rapport is a learnable skill that can improve with intention and practice. Here's how to get started.

Have trouble connecting with others? Creating rapport is a learnable skill that can improve with intention and practice. Here's how to get started.

Relationships

How to Make Healthy Relationships a Top Priority

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on June 1, 2022

Consider deepening your relationships with everybody and everything to enhance the quality of your life and ability to thrive.

Consider deepening your relationships with everybody and everything to enhance the quality of your life and ability to thrive.

Imposter Syndrome

Feeling Like a Fraud? Here's What to Do

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on April 28, 2022

If you feel like a fraud, you can change that to create a richer, more satisfying life. Here's how.

If you feel like a fraud, you can change that to create a richer, more satisfying life. Here's how.

Relationships

4 Deep Relationship Lessons I Learned from Earth

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on April 13, 2022

Sometimes the answers to life's challenges are right before us. The natural world offers comfort and wisdom in so many areas of life, especially our relationships.

Sometimes the answers to life's challenges are right before us. The natural world offers comfort and wisdom in so many areas of life, especially our relationships.

Stress

Feeling Stress? Tap Into Your Authentic Passions and Power

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on February 28, 2022

Stress is all around us, in national and global events, work, and our personal lives. Here are 4 ways to find your power and make positive change through authenticity.

Stress is all around us, in national and global events, work, and our personal lives. Here are 4 ways to find your power and make positive change through authenticity.

Burnout

Preventing Burnout: 4 Strategies to Cultivate Your Energy and Engagement

Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert Ph.D., MAPP, RPh on January 30, 2022

Burnout at work is at an all-time high during this pandemic. Strategies to prevent and mitigate burnout are available.

Burnout at work is at an all-time high during this pandemic. Strategies to prevent and mitigate burnout are available.