Everyone feels confident when they are employing the use of an instruction manual. They provide detailed information on how to take care of any issue in digestible steps. I love when the instructions read “so easy a child can do it” because that’s when I enlist the help of friends with PhD’s in engineering to help with the task. [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Why Do We Look for the How To?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged attributing meaning to bad events, coaching illness, Greg Katz, How to, illness coaching, meaning of life, patient empowerment on June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
No Guarantees
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged Cancer, coaching illness, Ed McMahon, Farah Fawcett, Greg Katz, illness coaching, Michael Jackson, patient empowerment, Sudden Death on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well let’s hope that this week is better than last week regarding the death of some of America’s most prominent personalities. It’s amazing that even when someone is ill; their death is a surprise. It’s not about denial but the hope that we can actually revel in the possibility of being wrong. They say that [...]
R-E-S-P-I-T-E
Posted in Caregiving, tagged care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, caregiver support, coaching caregivers, Greg Katz, patient-caregiver relationship, respite care on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to Caregiver Friday! Who wouldn’t like a little R & R? We love the idea but even in the best of times we find ways to fill our days with endless chores and activities. When caring for someone with a chronic or life-threatening illness the idea of R & R takes on a whole [...]
Life is Full of Snapshots
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, Greg Katz, illness coaching, Kodachrome Film, Kodak, life as a photojournalist, life as art, making memories, patient empowerment, pop culture and health on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The newest phenomenon to become a dinosaur in our culture is Kodak’s Kodachrome film. In the age of digital film is used less and less, but this film can be tagged with lots of memories you’re probably familiar with from the pages of National Geographic and other magazines. Today because of technology we choose to [...]
Light and Shadow
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged art and healing, coaching illness, Greg Katz, illness coaching, life as art, patient empowerment, Rembrandt on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Light and shadow are two things artists take very seriously when creating a new piece of work. It’s the aspects of the piece that give the work dimension adding to the complexity of the work. Balancing the two gives us depth and punctuates certain aspects of the art. It’s an interesting thing to play with [...]
Do You See a Pattern?
Posted in Caregiving, Uncategorized, tagged care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, caregiver support, coaching caregivers, Greg Katz, life patterns, patient-caregiver relationship, role of the caregiver on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to Caregiver Friday! I’m a textile artist so I’m always intrigued by patterns. I find interesting patterns in magazines, clothing, and nature. Now let’s take the idea of patterns to a different level and look at the patterns we live or re-live in our lives. As a psychotherapist for the past 20+ years I [...]
There Are No Dress Rehearsals
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, Greg Katz, illness coaching, living in the moment, living theater, mind body connection, mindfulness, patient empowerment, the world is your stage on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Funny thing about life is that it doesn’t come with an instruction manual and you don’t get a dress rehearsal before you have to give the performance of your life. We constantly hear that practice makes perfect, but when it comes to life we only get one take so we have to do our best [...]
Are You a Life Gardener?
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, gardening for health, Greg Katz, holistic health, illness coaching, life gardening, Nature and health, patient empowerment, spiritual wellness, Spirituality and Health on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s that time of year when many start playing in the dirt planting their gardens. For many it is the re-affirmation of life while at the same time giving them the opportunity to commune with nature. It’s not only about beauty, but it’s also about sustenance for those who plant vegetables. Before heading to the [...]
Cool Running and Hope
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, Cool Running, Greg Katz, hope and health, illness coaching, Jamaican Bobsled Team, mind body connection, patient advocacy, patient empowerment on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since the time of recorded history there have been life lessons presented that can be generalized to all areas of your life. The media, all forms, serves as the communications director and lead teacher in dispersing the most important lessons. You may believe that you have nothing to learn from popular culture and I would [...]
Brainstorming or Blame-storming?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged Blame, Brainstorming, coaching illness, Greg Katz, illness coaching, mind body connection, patient empowerment, pessimists, self-empowerment on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the key components to hope is the ability to look for options every step of the way. The alternatives you’re looking for may be related to treatment, emotional attachments, attitude, or spiritual acceptance. Every creative person at one point in their life has been involved in brainstorming as a way to get the creative [...]
