by Heather Holmes | Dec 5, 2016 | Health and Wealth, Insurance
There are a few reasons why life insurance is a hard topic to bully yourself into considering. First, thinking about future money is difficult. Insurance-related vocabulary words tend to nudge the majority of us into a deep sleep. Also, it’s hard to conceptualize the...
by Heather Holmes | Last updated May 28, 2019 | Advance Directives, Health and Wealth
What is an advance directive and how do you get one? It’s the topic we don’t want to think about or even discuss, but is critical that we put to paper: What we want to happen in a medical emergency if we can’t express our own wishes. An advance...
by Heather Holmes | Dec 5, 2016 | Health and Wealth
8 glasses of water…10,000 steps…2,000 calories, we know these numbers by heart and understand that the choices we make (like eating fruits and veggies, getting exercise, etc) in our own lives affect our health but how many of us consider the role our...
by Heather Holmes | Dec 5, 2016 | Financial Planning, Health and Wealth
Family gatherings at the holidays can be the extremes – familiar and happy, tense and chaotic – and sometimes can be the perfect storm of emotions, conversations and good intentions gone horribly wrong. TapGenes asked health communication expert, Dr....
by Heather Holmes | Dec 5, 2016 | Financial Planning, Health and Wealth
Last year when my grandfather passed away, I was inundated with messages of “how can we help” and “what do you need?”. I was grateful, and I was also too overwhelmed to give a real answer. I’d tell them nothing, or we’re fine. What I really wanted to hear...
by Heather Holmes | Dec 5, 2016 | Financial Planning, Health and Wealth, Life Events
We watched the news in horror, our grief raw and gnawing. The news of my boyfriend’s younger brother dying was splashed across the screen in unfeeling, clinical terms. He was in a car accident that left two people dead. The phone immediately started to ring. Our few...