It’s easy to believe that the news the doctor gives you puts a crimp in your style and your life and only your life. Let’s be serious, you don’t live alone on a mountain, in the middle of the rain forest. You live in society, maybe with other people (your family), or at least you [...]
Archive for April, 2009
This Didn’t Just Happen to You!
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, Relationships, tagged coaching illness, health and communication, health and secrecy, illness coaching, isolation, isolation and health, isolation and wellness, patient empowerment, patient-caregiver relationship on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I Hear You Loud and Clear
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged angels on earth, coaching illness, Good Morning America, heart disease, illness coaching, Marie Osmond, patient empowerment, stroke on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Who do you listen to? I mean who do you really listen to so keenly that their message pierces your soul? I ask that question because people will say things to us that we think may be nagging or unsolicited advice and what the person is really doing is serving as an angel on earth. [...]
What Color is the Elephant in Your Room?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, caregiver support, patient-caregiver relationship, responsibility and caregiving on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to Caregiver Friday!!! When dealing with the medical community does it ever feel like a day at the zoo? That visit to the zoo may continue at home when the pink elephant is sitting in your living room. Okay maybe it’s not a pink elephant; it could possibly be an 800lb gorilla. The fact [...]
Do You Have a Cynical Touchstone?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, cynicism, distrust, doubting Thomas, health and healing, illness coaching, keeping it real, laughter and health, patient empowerment on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You may be wondering why I’m writing about cynicism when I’m usually focused on positive energy and optimism when confronting a chronic or life-threatening illness. The truth is that I start all my public speaking engagements with a qualifying statement telling the audience that I’m cynical and sarcastic. I start with this because I know [...]
What Questions Do You Have?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, Uncategorized, tagged coaching illness, illness coaching, life goals, life mission, overcoming adversity, patient empowerment, spiritual stamina, The Biggest Loser on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We all have questions. Even if you don’t think you have any questions I assure you that you do. My first question is how important are the answers to these questions and will the answers get me any closer to my desired goal of health and healing. There are different kinds of questions. There are [...]
Do We Live and Die by the Number?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged Auto-immune disease, cholesterol, health education, illness coaching, lab results, lab tests, mind over matter, patient empowerment, placebo effect on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s amazing how we gauge our health by the numbers instead of how we feel. In the show “RENT”, a young man in a support group whose numbers are poor is asked, “how do you feel?” His response, “Best I’ve felt all year”. We are so focused on the numbers that we often disregard the [...]
The Dynamic Duo
Posted in after the diagnosis, Partnerships, Relationships, tagged care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, coaching caregivers, health covenants, superheroes on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to Caregiver Friday!!! We love superheroes! We find the idea of fighting evil and protecting justice an exciting prospect. Television writers must know this because it shows up on television all the time and in comic books and movies. There’s something special about the relationship between the superhero and his/her sidekick. They have an undeniable [...]
Are You Afraid of Committing to a Practice?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, Living with Illness, tagged art and healing, coaching illness, healing arts, illness coaching, Jenny Finn, Kim Rosen, patient empowerment, Sarah Haskell, spiritual practice, spiritual wellness, Spirituality and Health, Tony Robbins on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of us who took music lessons as a kid the mantra our parents repeated, even screamed, was “practice makes perfect”. How many of us lifted our instruments with less than full enthusiasm or belief that we would become virtuosos? Tony Robbins says that “repetition is the mother of mastery”. It’s interesting that as [...]
Ditch Digging is Not Part of Health and Healing
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, Norman Cousins, overcoming adversity, pain management, pain relief, patient empowerment, self-empowerment on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What do you focus on when it comes to your health? If you’ve been diagnosed with a chronic or life-threatening illness you probably ask, “What else can go wrong?” We’re in a culture that is constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop and believe me if you give it the opportunity it will fall, [...]
