Empower Women Pod - The Encore

For our January Empower Women Series event, Danielle Benaroche Gottesman, a Certified Wellness & Self-Care Coach, hosted Understanding & Making Time for Self Care.  Danielle’s vast background in journalism led her to a career at WGBH and PBS International, and ultimately inspired her through personal experience to understand that balance was best achieved by making time to kindle the creative and personal fires we tend to let smolder amidst the demands of career and parenthood.  Her path evolved to inspire service as a Wellness Coach (or as some have called her, a Creative Midwife).  Danielle led the group in a short meditation for novices and experts, then explored ways we spend our time, the demands we all share in common, and the extenuating circumstances that throw us off course and off-schedule. The discussion touched on three main branches of self-care via nutritional wellness, wellness via movement, and well-being through emotional balance. Using left brain and right brain approaches to findi