Welcome to Caregiver Friday!!! Let’s face it, we all have control issues. Can you think of anything greater than everyone in the world responding the way you want them to? Wouldn’t life be so much easier if all you had to do is pass out pages of a script for everyone to read from so [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Gaining a Sense of Control
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, tagged caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver stress, coaching caregivers, coaching illness, control and caregivers on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When is Uncertainty a Blessing?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, doctor-patient relationship, doctors as humans, partnership with doctors, patient empowerment on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things we hope for when we go to the doctor is a definitive diagnosis. If you’ve ever looked at the amount of information med students need to learn, book learn, in two years is utterly amazing. Is it any wonder that even through years of education and training they don’t always have [...]
Lowest Common Denominators
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, Irvin Yalom, Kim Rosen, Mary Oliver, meditation on death, patient empowerment, poetry therapy on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The truth is that those who are well and those who are facing a chronic or life-threatening illness share one big secret. We all suffer from death anxiety. It’s interesting because the Ancient Greeks felt that to live “the good life” you had to meditate on your death. This year Irwin Yalom came out with [...]
Pay Attention to your Priorities
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged children and illness, coaching illness, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Job McCully, lung transplant, parents and illness, patient empowerment on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re in the midst of a very big election. Don’t worry, I am not about to spend your precious time on election details. As we get ready to vote, we all make decisions about which issues are a priority for us and our families. We determine what we want the focus to be of the [...]
How Do You Walk in the World?
Posted in after the diagnosis, care for the caregiver, Caregiving, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged caregiver burnout, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, coaching caregivers, coaching illness, patient-caregiver relationship on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to Caregiver Fiday!!! So I’ve been giving some thought to how you walk in the world as a caregiver. There are so many opportunities to display different modes of operating and I will talk about some “archetypes” over the next couple of weeks to focus the discussion, but today I have two visuals. Do you walk this [...]
It’s Time to Pull the Plug
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, Emotional Health, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, draining negative emotions, patient empowerment on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t get alarmed, I’m not talking about asking you to disconnect life saving devices. I’m asking you to pull a very different kind of plug, the plug on your emotional bathtub. It’s time to drain the tub and see what lurks beneath the water. Facing a chronic or life-threatening illness can create a lot of [...]
Spending without Ending
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, patient empowerment, personal energy on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t leave the site…I’m not going to talk about money although it is on many people’s minds and causes stress. I’ll leave that for another post. I am talking about the fact that any form of energy can be spent including our own healing energy. Take a moment and think…Where am I spending without ending? [...]
What are you Curious About?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, curiosity and illness, fear and illness, patient empowerment on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s one thing to know that you have an illness, but do you know about the illness? I’m not talking about how to get rid of the illness, I’m talking about the illness/disease itself. On a personal note, I was diagnosed with an auto-immune disease at the age of 12 and unfortunately I didn’t know [...]
Life on Autopilot
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged anxiety and illness, coaching illness, patient empowerment on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I drove from Denver to Santa Fe, about 570 miles. I got an early start so there wouldn’t be too many people on the road and I was right! Once I got beyond the suburbs, down to the more rural areas I put the car on cruise control and down the road I went. [...]
Fear the Fear
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, fear, fear and illness on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I went back to school…it was time. I’m working on my PhD focusing on “Art as a healing modality when facing chronic and life-threatening illness. I only tell you that because I had a realization last night while writing my paper for the up and coming class. The class is on Wisdom and [...]
