Welcome to Caregiver Friday! The United States is fighting two wars simultaneously. In addition, the United States is having to deal with weapons testing in North Korea. If all that weren’t enough you’re caring for someone who has been diagnosed with an illness and is in the fight of their lives. I’m sure you never [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Soldiers in the Same War
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, caregiver support, coaching caregivers, Greg Katz, patient-caregiver relationship, war on illness on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Perfectly Imperfect
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, Hal Stone, mind body connection, patient empowerment, Shamans, Sidra Stone, spiritual stamina, spiritual wellness, Spirituality and Health, Voice Dialogue on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why is it that we strive for perfection when in reality we’re not even sure it’s possible? Perfection is a funny thing because for some it means chasing your tail for eternity and still never getting things exactly how you want them. For others it’s striving for recognition of their worth, an external locus of control [...]
And the Tony Goes To…
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, mind body connection, patient empowerment, self-empowerment, Tony awards, ultimate self-expression on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This past Sunday CBS hosted the annual Tony awards. The Tony awards are for Broadway theater, one of America’s greatest treasures. There are lots of categories for the awards, but one that stands out is for musical orchestration. Once the music/songs are written the orchestrator is the one who makes it all come to life. [...]
What Do You Crave?
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, concierge medicine, doctor-patient relationship, Greg Katz, illness coaching, mind body connection, partnership with doctors, patient empowerment, self-empowerment on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Until you’re diagnosed with a chronic or life-threatening illness you may have never craved health? Until your diagnosis, health was something you had and some of you worked to preserve it while others just let health ride its own wave. Cravings are funny things because they come on unexpectedly and are often of a bizarre nature. A health [...]
Psychic Abilities
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged channeling, coaching illness, Greg Katz, illness coaching, intuition, mindfulness, patient empowerment, psychic abilities, psychic readings, psychics, spiritual stamina, spiritual wellness, Spirituality and Health on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve all heard of people who have “a gift”. That “gift” is the unique ability to tune in to one’s intuition at a higher frequency than the general population. Often these individuals call themselves psychics, intuitive readers, and metaphysical channelers, just to name a few. The amazing thing is that they aren’t unique or special [...]
Everyone is a Critic
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged care for the caregiver, caregiver burnout, caregiver empowerment, caregiver health, caregiver needs, caregiver stress, caregiver support, coaching caregivers, Greg Katz, patient-caregiver relationship, responsibility and caregiving on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to Caregiver Friday! How is it that we all have opinions about everything even if we’ve never had the experience we have an opinion about? We self-appoint ourselves as experts as it pertains to everything believing that our opinions will change the world. Well I have news for you, I learned a very important [...]
Who Are You-Not-Who Do You Think You Are!
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged coaching illness, Extroverts, Greg Katz, illness coaching, Introverts, Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory, patient empowerment, Personality types on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been talking with people about the personality test, the Myers-Briggs. One of the key components of the Myers-Briggs is the Introvert/Extrovert scale. I’m amazed at how many people are confused about not only if they are an introvert or extrovert, but what each entails. We seem to need or want to believe that extroverts [...]
Are You A Quick Study?
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, challenging assumptions, coaching illness, creativity, creativity and health, Greg Katz, health and healing, holistic health, illness coaching, patient empowerment on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We all know there is no prep course for what follows the diagnosis of a chronic or life-threatening illness. There is no diagnosis on this planet that is, could be, or should be planned for so why would there be a prep course. In actuality there is a prep course and that prep course is [...]
