Rounding Out The Caregiver Role When a person is dropped into a caregiver role, it may seem impossible to know how to begin. A light bulb lit up for me this weekend while attending a coaching conference: many of the same guidelines of life coaching can be applied in a slightly different manner to care [...]
When in Doubt, Go Back to Basics The last post explored how anger disrupts the process in both emotional and physical healing. I promised actual techniques to help remedy anger that is disruptive. In searching through my own material gathered over the years and researching other literature, the most extensive and successful strategies that I [...]
Stress is Affecting Family Well-Being as Americans Head Into Holiday Season Washington, DC – The American Psychological Association’s (APA) newest Stress in America survey found that stress is taking a physical and emotional health toll on children and could have long-term impacts on the health of families. As the holiday season quickly approaches, psychologists warn [...]
Strengthen the Body Core Benefits of physical activity can add new depth to the lives of seniors and the disabled–they simply have to discover the right exercises for their particular abilities. The exercise/fitness market offers so many products, it becomes difficult to find the exercise equipment that will be the best to meet specific needs. [...]
Inside Is A Real Person The old saying that you can’t tell a book by it’s cover is the essence of what it is to live as a disabled person. Whatever appears physically to be the disability doesn’t reveal the depths of emotion and struggle going on inside. The courage to face every day and [...]
Primarily, It Is Still An Inside Job In the big picture, numerous aspects of your learning and makeup either complicate your efforts to control stress or promote coping and healing. Resilience is the key. How well do you bounce back? What are your adaptive skills? What is your capacity to thrive and live to your [...]
Managing Stress Goes Beyond Learning Relaxation Techniques Stress is a given for everyone, as we all accept. Stress management, on the other hand, is done well by relatively few, and may take a change in the way you think about stress. A classic technique points to relaxation training, including using breathing, to calm the physical [...]
Stress Management Is Primary The need for stress management ranks high for everyone, even though we are affected individually by different pressures. Ignoring stress may result in serious and difficult problems to solve, indeed it is linked to many negative health conditions such as heart, blood pressure, and immune problems, healing ability, and many more, [...]
Research Links Stress To Health Problems– And Solutions Using the power of the mind to affect bodily symptoms (illness) is the underlying premise of mind-body medicine. Reducing stress is a primary concern for therapists and all health care professionals, and has been found to be a viable means of improving health. The physical and emotional [...]
Discovering Your Wise Inner Voice Before I even started to speak, I knew that the twinkle in my eye had given it away. He has been a client for a long time. He had had numerous traumas eating at him from his childhood when he first began personal growth therapy several years ago. We methodically [...]
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