Unlike yesterday, today is bright, sunny but still a bit cool. No I’m not going to give you a daily weather report, but it is relevant to what I want to share with you today. Aside from having an auto-immune disease for over thirty years, I developed asthma as an adult. It’s one of those [...]
Archive for March, 2009
How Will You Spend Your Day?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged anxiety, anxiety and illness, asthma, Auto-immune disease, body knowledge, coaching illness, health education, illness coaching, mind body connection, patient empowerment, self-empowerment on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Snowing…What Does that Mean for You?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coaching illness, coping with chronic illness, illness coaching, living with chronic illness, overcoming adversity, patient empowerment, self-empowerment on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a Monday morning and I woke up to see snow on the ground. Last night’s weather report had said that we’d have some moisture between midnight and 4am, but it was still snowing at 6:30am. As I sit here and write this post it’s still snowing. So why am I giving you the meteorology report [...]
Those Left Behind
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bereavement, care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, caregiver support, coaching caregivers, family values, grief on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to Caregiver Friday!! I speak a lot about the trials and tribulations of being the caregiver/wellness partner to someone you love. I focus a lot on how to keep yourself sane during these period in your life and how to come out the other side with your sanity and a sense of self. I’ve tried [...]
The Daily 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, health and fear, health and optimism, health and wellness, holistic health, illness coaching, mind body connection, patient empowerment, self-empowerment on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ever wonder if you owned a newspaper what you would call it? If you’re facing a health challenge you may call it “The Daily Fear”. I’m not talking about the overall fear that people experience when facing a chronic or life-threatening illness; I’m talking about the pervasive fear that is prominent the moment you wake [...]
Amnesia
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged altered states of consciousness, coaching illness, drug holiday, illness coaching, patient empowerment, reality check on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More and more I find myself saying things out loud that I know you’re thinking to yourself. In fact I know it’s the things most people are thinking quietly to themselves in the confusion, possibly despair of an illness diagnosis. The thought today is, “Can’t I just forget that I’m sick for 1 day”. The [...]
Constant Reminder
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, illness coaching, mind body connection, new attitude, overcoming adversity, patient empowerment, self-empowerment, Spirituality and Health on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The alarm clock goes off and if you’re like me you try and figure out how many times you can hit the snooze button before you actually need to get out of bed. There are many things that people do the moment they wake up; some pray, some write down the dreams they had throughout [...]
Does Illness Have a Face?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, tagged Cancer, coaching illness, health education, illness coaching, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, patient empowerment, Sickle Cell Anemia, Tay Sachs on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mirror, Mirror on the wall…who’s the fairest of them all? Remember that from Snow White? It’s funny (in an odd way, not a ha-ha way) that before being diagnosed with a health challenge I’d wager that virtually no one stands in front of the mirror and asks, “Mirror, Mirror on the wall…who’s the healthiest of [...]
And the Walls Come Tumbling Down
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, caregiver support, coaching caregivers, patient-caregiver relationship, spiritual stamina on March 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Welcome to Caregiver Friday!!! In the Middle Ages the Kings built moats around their castles to protect the palace. They would come up with inventive methods to protect themselves from invaders. The Kings were conscious of the fact that others wanted to do them harm and they continuously found ways to create space between those [...]
When the Phone Rings
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged care for the caregiver, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, caregiver support, doctor-patient relationship, partnership with doctors on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone is scared when the phone rings in the middle of the night because the news is rarely good. Unfortunately those types of calls can come any time during the day. We got a call at 5:30pm yesterday that my father-in-law, who has been fighting an infection in the hospital, had a major heart attack. [...]
The Mind Connecting with the Body
Posted in art and healing, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, creativity and health, living with chronic illness, tagged coaching illness, illness coaching, patient empowerment, Seven Storey Mountain, spiritual stamina, spiritual wellness, Spirituality and Health, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, Thomas Merton, Trappist monk on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve started reading the works of Thomas Merton, Trappist monk , writer and peace and civil rights activist. I finished “The Seven Storey Mountain” and now I’m reading “The Intimate Merton”. Why am I reading these spiritual works? I’m fascinated at the conversations we’ve been having about the mind and the body. If you read the [...]
