Alumni Reflections on 2020: Marika Dillard (’13) Marika’ is a Mental Health Therapist at Catawba Mental Health & Stepping Stones, LLC in Charlotte, NC. What has been most difficult for you throughout this past year? As a mental health therapist, the most difficult aspect has […]
Alumni Reflections on 2020: Reece Guida (’17) Reece is a Cyber Security Marketing/Copywriting Expert in Newport, Rhode Island. What has been most difficult for you throughout this past year? Making mistakes on the job while working remotely! Taking ownership of errors and trying to solve […]
Alumni Reflections on 2020: Sarah York (’18) Sarah is a graduate student pursuing her master’s degree in School Counseling at Columbia University in New York City. What has been most difficult for you throughout this past year? Transitioning to a new city. After graduating from […]
Alumni Reflections on 2020: Jessica Wooten-Macklin (MSA ’20) Jessica works at EY in Assurance/Strategy and Transactions in Atlanta, GA. What has been most difficult for you throughout this past year? Balancing between staying home and staying safe and taking care of my mental, physical and […]
Alumni Reflections on 2020: Thomas Sloan (’15) Thomas currently lives in Boulder, CO. What has been most difficult for you throughout this past year? Maintaining positivity. A byproduct of being educated, following the news, listening to various experts, etc. It’s difficult to not see a […]
Alumni Reflections on 2020: Mo Earley (’13) What has been most difficult for you throughout this past year? Community is very important to me, and our response to the pandemic – cancelled in-person classes, postponed graduation celebrations, the inability to be with friends – initially […]
By Allison McWilliams (’95), Ph.D., Assistant VP, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University We all struggle with goal-setting (don’t worry, it’s not just you!). Why is that? It’s hard to plan forward. Often we don’t have all of the information that […]
We can all use a new productivity tool, to help manage tasks and to-do lists and keep ourselves organized. One such tools is the bullet journal, “a mindfulness practice disguised as a productivity system.” In this article by Katie O’Malley from Elle, you will […]
The only constant is change. And, right now, we’re experiencing a lot of it. So, how do you work through it, effectively? How do you “control what you can” when everything seems so out of control? In this piece for Psychology Today, Allison McWilliams, […]
In this article on Psychology Today, Allison McWilliams (’95), WFU Assistant Vice President for Mentoring and Alumni Personal and Career Development, offers some hard truths about expectations of work. She suggests that ultimately it’s on you to give meaning and purpose to your work […]