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Why Perimenopause Makes You Feel Like You’ve Lost Yourself

August 19, 2025 | Renée Fishman

If you’re feeling disoriented, lost, and unlike your “normal” self, you’re not crazy. Here’s an explanation for why you’re feeling out of sorts.

Filed Under: Navigating Change, Perimenopause Tagged With: body, body as a house, changes, cycles, lost, metaphor, navigating change, perimenopause, rhythms, seasons

The Problem With “1 Percent Better Every Day”

February 10, 2025 | Renée Fishman

The idea of improving by 1% a day seems like a great way to make sustainable progress. But a crucial reality of how growth happens is often lost in the idea of “slow and steady gains.

Filed Under: Fitness, Productivity Tagged With: cycles, cyclical, growth, life, linear, nature, progress, rhythms, seasons, sustainability, weightlifting

7 Strategies for Navigating the Mid-Afternoon Dip

September 24, 2024 | Renée Fishman

The mid-afternoon slump is a normal part of the day. Here are 7 strategies for navigating it and working with it, instead of pushing through it.

Filed Under: ADHD, Productivity Tagged With: ADHD, fitness, movement, productivity, rhythms, seasons, strategies

Where Are You In Time?

May 16, 2024 | Renée Fishman

Physical spaces offer us a context for the activity we are going to do. So do temporal spaces — or time. Here’s a way to understand how it works.

Filed Under: Astrology, Productivity Tagged With: astrology, cycles, productivity, rhythms, seasons, time, time management, timing, transits

3 Reasons to Embrace February as the Real Start of Your Year

February 3, 2024 | Renée Fishman

If you think you’re falling behind because it’s already February, take a deep breath and know that you’re not alone and you’re not behind. In fact, you’re right on time. Here are 3 reasons why you should embrace February as the real start of your year.

Filed Under: Coaching, Life, Productivity Tagged With: beginnings, cycles, Imbolc, January, nature, new year, new year resolutions, planning, productivity, resolutions, rhythms, timing, wheel of the year

5 Reasons Why Astrology is the Ultimate Productivity Tool

July 14, 2023 | Renée Fishman

When I received my first natal chart reading in 2014, it piqued my curiosity, but I thought astrology was just a fun diversion. As I deepened my study of astrology, I’ve come to see it as a great tool for my personal development and productivity. Here are 5 reasons why astrology is the ultimate productivity tool.

Filed Under: Astrology, Productivity Tagged With: angles, archetypes, astrology, attention, behavior, focus, Houses, meaning, nature, patterns, personal development, perspective, planets, productivity, rhythms, time, vision

3 Things to Know About Mercury in Gemini

June 11, 2023 | Renée Fishman

After over 2 months in Taurus, Mercury, the messenger planet, flies into Gemini for a 15-day homecoming. Here are 3 things to know about Mercury’s transit through Gemini.

Filed Under: Astrology Tagged With: astrology, communication, Gemini, Mercury, Mercury in Gemini, Mercury square Saturn, messages, rhythms, seasons, speed, transits

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