Seven Things You Can Do To Help Manage Your Vertigo
Have you seen Inside a Vertigo Attack? I never expected the kinds of comments I’m getting. I suspect there are not too many first-person accounts of what it’s like to…
Read moreHow Old Are You on the Inside?
I was sitting on the wall, chatting with Eddie, a colleague, at the Gaylord mega hotel in Nashville. I’m at the Agile 2013 conference. I recognized the female gardener as…
Read moreWhy Do Hotels Not Eat Their Own Dog Food?
I travel a lot so I stay in many hotels. When I make a reservation, I ask for either a stall shower or a shower with a grab bar, or…
Read moreWhat a Doctor Should Not Say to a Patient on a Friday Afternoon
You’ve heard the old joke, “I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news,” right? Well, that actually happened to me. Back in 2009, when I had my first vertigo…
Read moreHow’s Your Head?
I saw my regular doctor recently, who is concerned about my quantity of vertigo meds. I’m on the max, to manage my oscillopsia. Even with all the meds, I’m just…
Read moreEnd of One Illusion: No Safe Place
One of the problems with vertigo is that there is no safe place for me, except for sitting down. I flew to and from Denver last week. I don’t mind…
Read moreSelf-Esteem Can’t Arise From Your External Beauty Either
There’s a sad story making the rounds today. Samantha Brick wrote an article in the Daily Mail called ‘There are downsides to looking this pretty’: Why women hate me for…
Read moreUsing the Past to Create a New Future
At AYE this week, I led a session about adapting to change in your life. One of the participants was considering reminiscing about the way his life used to be.…
Read moreEmotional Resilience: Just the Beginning
Part of mental toughness is also having emotional resilience. It’s a different piece. Here’s how I like to explain it. Imagine you were a corporate travel agent back in the…
Read moreFaith Tempered With Reality, Not Optimism
You need to have faith that you can make it through whatever is going on in your life. But you can’t afford to be blindly optimistic. (My original title for…
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