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 [...]
Aging Disabilities May Start Slowly Deciding on the need for adaptive equipment may require noticing details and subtle differences as age progresses in our loved ones. We may even tend to overlook a lessening of functioning in our elderly parents, or not realize the time is coming when geriatric care will be necessary. We may [...]
Where to Start Wherever we turn, whatever happens, the quality of our lives will always, ultimately, reside with our inner selves. Within the chronic pain syndrome and/or living with disabilities, the essence of our beings, our inner wisdom, guides the ship. That does not mean you can be expected to overcome pain and hardship without [...]
Anger Can Destroy Your Quality of Life When the rage hits, it can seem like you are being swallowed by it! As soon as you can begin to think straight, you know that you need to regain control. Anger has a way of taking over your life, your thoughts, your well-being–if you let it. The [...]
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 [...]
When Adversity Strikes These can be dark times when your plate is overflowing with challenges. So dark that you may have forgotten about the spirit of overcoming that you’ve called upon many times. When the unbelievable happens, it takes time and strength to recover your old self who meets challenges and finds a way to [...]
“What Was I Thinking?” Self-esteem can take a big hit if we are dissatisfied with our current lives and look back with disdain on early decision-making. Hindsight is so easy that we forget we made the best choices we could for that time. We never get out of bed thinking “I’m going to make the [...]
Words From A Believer Time is usually necessary to integrate change, especially in self-esteem. My client deployed overseas after she had sought therapy for a number of sessions. She had been feeling desperate about relationships not working out and finding herself being used. However, she was afraid of letting relationships go because of her fears [...]
Bouncing Back After Life’s Lemons Self-esteem permeates all we do. If it is low, it definitely impairs resilience and stress management skills, in addition to most other aspects of our lives. When trauma or bad events hit, it is difficult not to get inundated with thoughts about failures and perceived inadequacies. Coping with the worst [...]
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