Every legal document has those little letters at the bottom that list all the exclusions for an offer. When you see an infomercial once again little print with the qualifiers for the sale. Certain stores have no return or limited return policies and then do so only with a receipt in given number of days. [...]
Archive for the ‘coping with chronic illness’ Category
Did You Read the Fine Print?
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, health blogger, holistic health, illness coaching, mind body connection on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What’s Your Trajectory?
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, health and healing, health blogger, illness coaching, reframing negative experiences on April 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There are lots of things that can send us spinning into orbit, but the diagnosis of a chronic or life-threatening illness takes this concept one step further. An illness diagnosis makes you feel like you’ve been shot out of a canon. You are propelled into orbit without any idea as to where you are going [...]
Better Get Your Hard Hat
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged building a health life, coaching illness, Greg Katz, health blogger, holistic health, illness coaching, mind body connection, patient empowerment on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
When you walk the streets of a city you often see fenced areas with signs that say, “Construction Zone”. We often take specific actions when we see these signs. There are some people who will look into the construction site to see what’s “becoming”, while others will cross over to the other side of the [...]
Are You Having a Moment?
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, health blogger, holistic health, illness coaching, zen proverb on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’m always on the lookout for words, phrases or images that sparks my curiosity. I love it when I see or hear something that gives me pause and serves as a catalyst for asking a question. It was in one of those searches that I came across the following Zen proverb, “Let go or be [...]
Beware of Sharp Points
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, health blogger, holistic health, illness coaching, patient empowerment on April 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
How many times in your life have you been stuck by the thorn of a rose? Have you ever tried to sew on a button and stuck yourself with the needle? Life is full of things with sharp points and the trick or the mission, if you will, is to avoid the sharp points. Unfortunately [...]
All in a Day’s Work for a Farmer…but For Us?
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, health blogger, holistic health, illness coaching, mind body connection on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been reading my posts over the past 18 months, you know that I’ve been traveling the country for work. My current stop is in El Paso, Texas where everything is dry, brown, and windy. I began thinking about how my life translates to other stories and the most prominent one that comes to [...]
Believing in Faith
Posted in after the diagnosis, coping with chronic illness, coping with life threatening illness, tagged coaching illness, Dr. Richard Besser, Faith and healing, Good Morning America, Greg Katz, healing ceremonies, health blogger, holistic health, mind body connection, Prayer and Healing, Spirituality and Health on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Religion and spirituality are often a component in our journey to health and healing. There are those who make pilgrimages to sacred sites around the world, like Lourdes, hoping to be rid of their maladies. We’re told that God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, so looking for the meaning in our health [...]
Are You Hoping to Get a Scholarship to Life?
Posted in after the diagnosis, Emotional Health, living with chronic illness, Living with Illness, tagged 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, coaching illness, Greg Katz, Gregorian Chant, health blogger, spiritual practice, spiritual wellness, Stephen Covey on January 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Life is expensive, not only financially, but physically, mentally, and spiritually. It seems that everything we think and do has a price on some level. How do we keep coming up with the payment for life? Do you have the life resources you need to lead a good life? It may be that just like [...]
