A weekly conversation between Greater Providence Chamber President Laurie White and Katie McDonald of bnourished about self care strategies. This week’s topic: Food. Watch Conversation

A weekly conversation between Greater Providence Chamber President Laurie White and Katie McDonald of bnourished about self care strategies Watch Conversation

“Self-Care Is Not Selfish”: Meet bnourished CEO Katie McDonald By Bram Berkowitz — Katie McDonald built a very successful career as an advertising executive. She worked for Time, selling ads across 45 national publications including Businessweek, Forbes, Sports Illustrated and InStyle Magazine. She led a division of Time in Seattle and also established the company’s […]

Named NaNa from the start for some unknown reason, the blanket was a gift from my grandmother who regretted it almost immediately. The blanket and I were inseparable. My mother took to the desperate solution of slicing NaNa in half so she could wash one at a time while not leaving me without my loyal […]

Wrap your head around the idea of planning and preparing 3 meals a day for a mind boggling 1,092 meals per year. Go ahead. Groan. Let it all out. Here’s the deal. Someone has to do the task of meal preparation and if that someone is you, you might as well refine your approach to […]

The quiet terrified me so I tried to outrun it, even outpace it, with busyness. Being still meant an open invitation to my bullying thoughts and berating self-judgement. Being quiet actually meant being drowned in the cacophony of shame resulting from the meticulous and mean dissection of the day: the careless remark, the social gaff, […]

Planning our day is a lost art; reactivity is the norm. We dodge, weave and tackle what is hurled at us each morning as soon as we enter the office. Each claim on our time is deemed necessary by someone else, so our flimsy intentions don’t stand a chance. Our wishes cascade to the bottom of […]

Katie, for our readers who are new to your work, can you tell us about bnourished and what made you start your company? In 2010, I founded to honor a vow. When I healed myself from the disease of busyness and the accompanying conditions—asthma, allergies, irritable bowel, ulcerative colitis, depression, anxiety, insomnia, shingles—I promised to […]

Ahhh… vacation. We’ve earned it. The long hours, daunting projects, and tedious tasks at work and home left behind. Pleasure awaits. No responsibility. The cocktails, dinners, local delicacies are a given. It is what we do on vacation. Part of the experience. Vacation is permission to be “naughty” after being so good the rest of […]

“Overwhelmed”. It’s a word I hear almost daily in my coaching practice. Heck, it’s a word I uttered daily to describe my internal chaos. Overwhelm is “too muchness”. Too many thoughts. Too many shoulds. Too many expectations. Like deer in headlights, we have so much to process that we freeze. Immobilized, we cry “overwhelm” in […]