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Drawing on her skills as a humor writer and life coach, Pat presents motivational speeches to professional and community groups on using humor and positive psychology techniques to function more happily in our personal and professional worlds.

What is YOUR Balancing Act?

Are work challenges and personal responsibilities putting you over the top? Are you still struggling to get your balance in a post-pandemic world? In this interactive presentation based on her new book,  Best of BALANCING ACT, Pat helps you revisit the ways you navigated past challenges and transitions and find new energy going forward.

You will participate in specific research-based exercises that will help keep a positive focus when life seems chaotic, and you’ll even get homework to keep the experience alive.

Good Grief: Why Am I Laughing At A Time Like This?

Grieving can’t be laughed away.  But finding  humor during the grieving process can give us a needed vacation from the trenches of grief and hope that life goes on.

Pat, who has weathered two widowhoods, will show how the techniques she used for finding humor in an overbooked life can also help find humor in times of loss.

Humor Helps: Develop Your Sense of Humor and Survive Hard Times

Have the daily news and economy got you down? Let Pat  show you how to develop a sense of humor that can get you through. She knows.

For two decades, Pat recounted her own travails in her humor column, Balancing Act. She can help you tap into your own humor-finding skills so that, like a columnist with a deadline, you start looking those bright small moments that can transform you day into something more bearable. 

 

To book Pat for a speech, get in touch by using the contact form.

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Periodically (but never more than once a month), I’ll send subscribers a free electronic newsletter, “Unpacking,” designed for those whose lives are thrown out of balance as they prepare to move to smaller quarters. You’ll learn how sifting through your “stuff” can help you discover YOUR important stories and decide which ones to make space for in your next phase. I’ll even call out for YOUR stories to share with others. Just enter your email address below to receive the newsletter by email.

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Contact Pat

For workshop bookings and to share stories of your own downsizing experience, use the contact form to get in touch.

“Balancing Tips” Newsletter Archives

Pat has issued a number of newsletters with tips and resources for getting your overbooked life back in balance. Click here for copies of past issues that you might find helpful.