There's still time to join our Support Summer free peer support events. These are chances to just get together and find some fun with whatever is going on this summer.

Our next Support Summer peer support session is July 25th! At the LinkedIn Pitch/Bitch session be grumpy as we bitch and cute as we pitch ala pygmy hippos and hopefully end up a little better off.

For the full calendar of events, add the Team Weaving event calendar.

There's still time to join our Support Summer free peer support events. These are chances to just get together and find some fun with whatever is going on this summer.

Our next Support Summer peer support session is July 25th! At the LinkedIn Pitch/Bitch session be grumpy as we bitch and cute as we pitch ala pygmy hippos and hopefully end up a little better off.

For the full calendar of events, add the Team Weaving event calendar.

Heat is Hard. Take Care of Yourself & Your Team

Extreme heat is hard on our emotional and mental health. It can affect how you and everyone on your team communicates and works.

We don’t talk enough about this part of climate change . . . .

About 30% of people in the US can't afford to turn on their air conditioning (only about 70% have air conditioning). Optimal sleeping temperature is under 70º F. So folks aren’t sleeping as well.

While we talk more about winter seasonal affective disorder, summer seasonal depression is real, especially in extreme heat and humidity. Other mental conditions are made worse in heat: substance use disorders, anxiety and stress-related disorders, mood disorders, and schizophrenia all are exacerbated by hot and muggy conditions.

Many US adults are on medications that are affected by heat and need to monitor and maybe adjust their dosage:

10% are on antidepressants
12% take insulin
20% take ACE inhibitors

Extreme heat has also been shown to affect cognition:

more aggressive behavior
more impulsive decision-making
more difficulty with memory and brain fog

So be more gentle with yourself and others. If you’re feeling ‘off’ in the heat, it’s normal. Take care of yourself.

Heat is Hard. Take Care of Yourself & Your Team

Extreme heat is hard on our emotional and mental health. It can affect how you and everyone on your team communicates and works.

We don’t talk enough about this part of climate change . . . .

About 30% of people in the US can't afford to turn on their air conditioning (only about 70% have air conditioning). Optimal sleeping temperature is under 70º F. So folks aren’t sleeping as well.

Many US adults are on medications that are affected by heat and need to monitor and maybe adjust their dosage:

10% are on antidepressants
12% take insulin
20% take ACE inhibitors

Extreme heat has also been shown to affect cognition:

more aggressive behavior
more impulsive decision-making
more difficulty with memory and brain fog

So be more gentle with yourself and others. If you’re feeling ‘off’ in the heat, it’s normal. Take care of yourself.

AQai Adaptability Intelligence Assessment

Featured Aspects: Grit and Mental Flexibility.

We've all heard about Grit. A LOT. In this asessment, it is only one of 15 strengths that contribute to you overall adaptability. And it may be something you actually want to dial down a little! Grit can mean that you're hanging on too long and too hard to stuff you need to let you.

Mental Flexibility is your brain's Macgyver power: how well can you turn the tools you have into the right tools for new situations? How can you see all sides of a situation? What can you do with the pencil, battery, paperclip, and chewing gum you've got to work with? Practicing actions to boost your Mental Flexibility may mean you don't have to rely on that Grit quite as much.

Newsletter subscribers get $100 off the whole AQai Adaptability Assessment, including 90 minutes of coaching for $200.

AQai Adaptability Intelligence Assessment

Featured Aspects: Grit and Mental Flexibility.

Newsletter subscribers get $100 off the whole AQai Adaptability Assessment, including 90 minutes of coaching for $200.

Non-business Book of the Month

This month's recommended non-business read is The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. It was written in 1993, so a lot of folks have read it already, but it's a good time to review it or try it out.

The book is set in Los Angeles, in 2024. Climate change and corporate greed have destroyed the powerful position America once had. Society has deteriorated, classes are operating at tremendous extremes, and people dream of escaping to Canada. So you can read it for the prescience.

The central character is an extraordinary but fallible leader, so you can read it for leadership lessons.

The third thing to read the book for is the messy process of building a community of wounded people in a wounded world that wants to hurt them, and the definitions of mutual support, trust, and safety that the community grapples with.

Did you read this far? Yay you! Respond with the name of the non-business book of the month for $300 off a What's Next Workshop or $100 off an AQai Adaptability Intelligence Assessment.

Yours,

Rhiannon Gallagher

(reeANNon) she/her

Team Weaving

Did you read this far? Yay you! Respond with the name of the non-business book of the month for $300 off a What's Next Workshop or $100 off an AQai Adaptability Intelligence Assessment.

Yours,

Rhiannon Gallagher

(reeANNon) she/her

Team Weaving