Kate Martin is a blogger, stay-at-home-mom, and freelancer, with the goal in life of helping other people find the things that make them happy. On her own blog, she helps mothers live their best possible life. She lives with her family outside of Springfield, Missouri, US.
(Reading Time: 8 Minutes) We all experience crisis and trauma in our lives at some point. Unfortunately, it’s part of the human experience. It may be a smaller crisis on a personal level – a crisis of faith or an emotional crisis. It may be something that affects your nuclear family, such as the loss…
(Reading Time: 7 Minutes) Have you ever sat at work and thought about how much you want to change careers? Did you realize that this career field you’ve been working in is simply not for you, and knew you had to change it? Have you struggled to figure out how to change careers to something…
(Reading Time: 4 Minutes) Have you ever felt like you’d rather go to the dentist than go to work? Are you always skirting the edge of “barely acceptable” performance because you hate what you’re doing? Have you ever thought “My job is killing me” and started glumly planning your own funeral? If so, you’re in…
(Reading Time: 8 minutes) Have you ever felt like you were stuck in a rut at work? Like your job was going nowhere, and you didn’t know how to get a new career you could feel passionate about? Do you remember the days when your job was new and exciting and you looked forward to…
(Reading Time: 8 Minutes) Have you ever fantasized about standing in front of your supervisor and telling him to take this job and shove it? Are you feeling the Sunday night blues – or worse, the Friday night blues, when your whole weekend is hard to enjoy because of the looming threat of work come…
(Reading time: 5 minutes) Our society has begun to treat career burnout as a normal, even expected, event. We make jokes about it on TV programs, we roll our eyes at co-workers who are clearly wishing they were anywhere else, we recognize it as part of our modern culture. What we don’t do is tell…