One of my favorite sayings referring to anger is “It makes my blood boil”. I was attracted to this phrase because there was some research being done on elevating blood temperature to eradicate viruses, literally burning them out of the body. Anger can have that effect, at least figuratively. Ever see someone who is angry [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Anger, Forgiveness and Health
Posted in Emotional Health, Self-Nurture, Spirituality and Health, tagged coaching illness, coping with chronic and life threatening illness, emotions impact on health on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Confronting Your Emotional Mirror
Posted in Emotional Health, Spirituality and Health, tagged coaching illness, coping with chronic and life threatening illness, releasing bad emotions on February 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How comfortable are you with your emotions? Are you the type of person who knows they are there but sweeps them under the carpet? What does it take for you to pay attention to how you’re feeling? When coping with a chronic or life-altering diagnosis your emotions are not simply reactions; they are a barometer [...]
Change One Thing to Improve Your Health
Posted in In the Know, Personal Conviction, Spirituality and Health, tagged asking for help, coping with chronic and life threatening illness on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve talked about change in the past but today I’m focusing on our the fallacy related to our flexibility in the world. I don’t mean being able to bend our bodies into contortionist poses, I’m talking about being open to a shift in perspective. Cheri Huber has a book, “How you do anything is how [...]
Optimism by Proxy
Posted in Caregiving, Partnerships, Relationships, tagged coping with chronic and life threatening illness, optimism on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When taking on a life-altering diagnosis every article, interview, television show and family member will tell us to be optimistic. They don’t always use that word. They may tell us to “keep the faith” or “God doesn’t give us more than we can handle” or “what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger”, easy for them [...]
Why Do We Help Diseases Hurt Us?
Posted in Self-Nurture, tagged coping with chronic and life threatening illness, creating health, improving health, lifestyle and health on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There has been a dramatic increase in research linking lifestyle to health. It’s not uncommon to see on the news most evenings some story about how our lifestyle interacts with our health. As more and more stories rise in our consciousness, how can we ignore them? Don’t we feel that we have some responsibility for [...]
Shooting Ourselves with Cupid’s Arrow
Posted in Self-Nurture, tagged building your immune system, love and health on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Valentine’s Day and the stores are filled with flowers, candy and plenty of cards to send or give to others. Why don’t we shoot Cupid’s arrow at ourselves to promote more self-love? Isn’t this the holiday where one’s true love is honored? I would hope that we are our own true love and yet [...]
Healing Hands
Posted in Emotional Health, Spirituality and Health, after the diagnosis, art and healing, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, tagged healing hands on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our hands are very useful appendages. Our hands have unique characteristics that differentiate us from everyone else on this planet. It’s amazing how we don’t honor the power in our hands. Think of commercials like Allstate Insurance “the good hands people”, doesn’t that not only provide a visual, but send a strong message about being [...]
New Breed of Doctors
Posted in Having a Voice, In the Know, Spirituality and Health, tagged coping with chronic and life threatening illness, doctor-patient relationship on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Advances in technology have had a huge impact on the medical field. Technology has provided new treatments and pharmaceuticals that have lowered mortality and increased many patients quality of life. It has given us access to up-t0-the minute consults 24 hours a day because we can send images across the world to a doctor in [...]
Seeing with New Eyes
Posted in History, Spirituality and Health, tagged beginner's mind, coping with chronic and life threatening illness on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is it possible to enter every exchange and activity as if you were doing for the first time? Obviously there are times when the first time experience is real, but what about times when situations are similar, or the theme resonates through your life. How do we face a life-altering diagnosis with new eyes? Is [...]
Scaling New Heights
Posted in Emotional Health, Having a Voice, tagged coping with chronic illness, life threatening illness, self-empowerment on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read lots of articles and listen to hundreds of interviews with people facing a life-altering illness. Every so often I hear someone make a comment like this is an opportunity to “scale new heights”. I’ve read about women with breast cancer making the trek to the top of a mountain. I’ve seen the stories [...]
