Welcome to Caregiver Friday! I have to tell you that since last Friday I have been thinking about the idea of reclaiming your life. Remember that caregiving is what you do, but it’s not who you are. This got me to thinking about the caregiving paradigm. A lot of the literature on caregiving revolves around [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Be the Best You!
Posted in after the diagnosis, tagged care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, caregiver support, coaching caregivers on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is an Auto-Immune Disease a Civil War?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, Living with Illness, Relationships, tagged Auto-immune disease, Dr. Oz, Oprah, Oprah and thyroid disease, patient empowerment on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I was catching up on Oprah’s “best life” episodes of the week (love watching it on the DVR, I can skip the commercials). There was a big question about Oprah stating that her thyroid disease had been cured. Fortunately, she had Dr. Oz ready and willing to discuss her thyroid issue and I [...]
Will Healthcare Policy Change in the New Administration?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, Dr. Gupta, healthcare policy, illness coaching, patient empowerment, Sanjay Guptak, Surgeon General on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Can you believe that it’s only one week till President-Elect Barack Obama takes office? I must admit the two month transition is exhausting for me, I can’t imagine what it has been like for him. As the weeks passed following the election it was interesting to see who would be appointed to the cabinet for [...]
Oprah and Questions About Health
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, illness coaching, Oprah, Oprah and thyroid disease, partnership with doctors, patient empowerment, patient's rights on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I turned to my digital video recorder to start watching the week of Oprah’s shows on wellness. I was listening very carefully to her description about the symptoms she was having and the steps she took to find the cause of her problems. If you didn’t see the show, she complained of feeling tired, gaining [...]
Reclaim Your Life
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, Partnerships, Relationships, tagged care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, caregiver support, coaching caregivers, patient-caregiver relationship on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to Caregiver Friday! I’ve written numerous entries about how your life changes when you become a caregiver/wellness partner. I’ve discussed your roles, your activities, and how your life changes. I’ve focused on the change and not on the status quo. You are the status quo. Your life, your interests, and your ambitions are still [...]
Disappointments
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, health and wellness, overcoming adversity, patient empowerment, Sex and the City on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What would make life easier? I often wonder what would happen if we could write a script for our lives and just hand out the pages for others to learn their lines. It seems easy enough to do, we know what we want the end of the scene or episode to look like so we [...]
Liberation
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged Dark night of the soul, Race for the Cure, St. Johon of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, Susan G. Komen on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As usual I’m reading a few books at the same time trying to quench my thirst for wisdom or at least knowledge. Those who have overcome difficult times often refer to “the dark night of the soul”. It has become a euphemism and is not, at least according to experts, what those who coined the [...]
We’re Social Creatures
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged animal behavior and humans, building your immune system, coaching illness, healing, illness coaching, patient empowerment on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I sit around my house watching my 2 cats and my 2 dogs play and I realize certain things about animal nature that are amazing. The cats I find are much closer to their wild ancestry. I can see it in how they play, how they hunt, even if it’s just a toy made of [...]
Enough Talk About Resolutions
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, consciousness and health, holistic health, illness coaching, patient empowerment, self-empowerment on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s January 5th and of course the hot topic on talk shows, radio programs and of course commercials is the notorious “New Years Resolution”. I wonder if the polling organizations or the bookies in Las Vegas keep track of how many make resolutions and how many break them and how quickly. We’re a nation obsessed [...]
Just One More Thing
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, caregiver support, coaching illness, Michael Gelb, patient empowerment, patient-caregiver relationship on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to Caregiver Friday! I hope you had an event free holiday season. Earlier this week I wrote an article about “is the crazy over?” capturing the sentiments of many over the past few weeks. Now that the holidays are over we all get to start fresh. Think about it as a contract that expires [...]
