Mildred Lynn McDonald - UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley

Mildred Lynn’s life adventure has whisked her across North America, through the industries of Health & Fitness, the executive halls of Fortune 50 companies, and into the budding landscape of Energy Medicine and Environmental studies. The common thread has been a love of people and the sincere desire to help everyone live their passion, find balance, and experience life fully and completely. With a little time and patience, she transformed her passion, intuitive gifts, and coaching skills into a vibrant mentoring and life coaching practice with clients spanning from California to Nova Scotia. Mildred Lynn holds a degree in Science & Nutrition, training in Adult Education, graduated as a Professional Integrative Coach, and currently combines all three as a Healing Conversationalist®. In 2012, she will partner with Naturopathic Doctor Glenna Calder to offer What’s Your Prescription for Balance, an innovative healing program designed to help people attract more sustainable balance into their lives on all levels. You are more than welcome to contact Mildred Lynn through her blog: http://mildredlynn.blogspot.com Passions: Toe tapp’n Celtic music, glass beads, wind-blown cliffs and wild Nova Scotia blueberries!

Is Happiness Sustainable? Let’s Find Out

In my last blog, we looked at the research-based link between happiness and the ability to focus the mind. Simply put, people who are able to focus their minds a greater percentage of the time (most people’s minds wander about 50%) appear to be happier and more productive at home and at work. Now, I’d [...]

Is Focus the Key to Happiness?

I really didn’t give much thought to the concept of happiness in the workplace until I was walking through the Phoenix airport and spotted The Harvard Business Review (HBR) out of the corner of my eye. Why did it catch my attention? Because here was a big yellow Smiley Face on the front cover (gasp!). [...]

Are You In Touch With What You Believe?

Beliefs, and by extension, belief systems, are powerful energy magnets that shape our inner and outer worlds … and they can be innocently (or not so innocently) misleading. For example, in the 1500′s, authority figures believed that the world was flat as a pancake; in the 1940’s doctors appeared in ads advocating the health benefits [...]

Do Affirmations and Quotes Work for You?

In the first and second blog posts of this series we talked about heavy stuff. I shared some thoughts about disappointment and forgiveness, two key human conditions that I’ve observed in my practice that consistently drain and distract people from reaching their full potential (and enjoyment) in the workplace. Now I’d like to shift gears and to [...]

Forgiveness: Is a Workplace Grudge Holding You Back?

In my first blog post, I shared some thoughts about disappointment, one of two key human conditions that I’ve observed in my Healing Conversations practice that consistently drain and distract people from reaching their full potential (and enjoyment) in the workplace. The second condition that I’ve noticed revolves is around the concept of forgiveness. You may be [...]

Disappointed? 5 Insightful Ways to Rise Again

Happy to be here … let me introduce myself: My name is Mildred Lynn McDonald. I hail from the bonnie shores of Nova Scotia, Canada and this is my first post as part of the UCSC blog community. Last month I moved to Los Altos, so as you can imagine, skipping The Great Canadian Winter [...]