by Maureen | Aug 14, 2020 | Personal
What started as a temporary remedy in response to the pandemic has become a permanent reality for many of us: the home office. If you’re still working at your dining room table on a dining room chair or kitchen stool – stop. You’re not doing yourself any favors. The...
by Maureen | Aug 7, 2020 | Personal
It started with a recurring nightmare I had while in my third year of college. I would wake up crying and feeling terrified. At the time, my parents were going through a terrible divorce. I was in Boston at school; my younger brother and sister at home in the midst of...
by Maureen | Jul 31, 2020 | Personal
“Toxic relationships are dangerous to your health; they will literally kill you. Your arguments and hateful talk can land you in the emergency room or in the morgue. You were not meant to live in a fever of anxiety; screaming yourself hoarse in a frenzy of dreadful,...
by Maureen | Jul 24, 2020 | Personal
There is a reason that you have been told since you were a child to look at the “bright side”. Being positive-minded affects your brain, your heart, and your health. One of the best psychology journals, Psychology Today wrote about their findings about positivity in...
by Maureen | Jul 16, 2020 | Personal
This has been a terrible, awful and seemingly never-ending pandemic. I have personally lost a few of my close friends to this virus and I was not even able to attend their funerals. I have seen my family maybe three times since March. I get very irritated when my...
by Maureen | Jul 9, 2020 | Personal
MANAGING STRESS FOR RETURNING TO THE OFFICE Many of us are returning to work as quarantine restrictions loosen. While some are happy to get out of the house, some are equally stressed about returning to the office. *Nearly 70% of 1,000 workers surveyed said that...
by Maureen | Jul 3, 2020 | Personal
“Breathing to relax is easy. You already know how to do it.“ Maureen Cronin The self-quarantine imposed by COVID-19 has left many of us stressed out. For those of us working from home, you may think you’re in a more relaxed atmosphere, but the truth is, you’re not....
by Maureen | Jun 25, 2020 | Personal
The spiritual meaning of namaste is that “the divine in me respectfully recognizes the divine in you.” Namaste invokes the feeling of spiritual oneness of heart and mind, with the person one is greeting. In Hinduism, it means “I bow to the divine in you”....
by Maureen | Jul 5, 2018 | Personal
First published in New York Newsday I am not famous or beautiful. I am not adored and desired by men and women around the world. I was raised in Rockville Centre by parents who worked tirelessly to provide for my siblings and I. But as a 20-something woman beginning...
by Maureen | Feb 15, 2016 | Personal
First printed in New York Newsday, February 7, 2016. The Facebook Inc. logo is displayed at the company’s office in Manhattan. Credit: Bloomberg News I first used Facebook in 2008 to reconnect with people from my past. My college sorority sisters and I...
