Archive for January, 2008
But don’t be fooled. It’s not as sweet as it looks.
Do you day dream about quitting your jobso you’re not always torn in 10 directions from the pressures of personal commitments, work demands and a sick body? Are you always behind — feeling you’ve never done enough — because of [...]
Speaking of the value of wellness coaching and health coaching (both hot topics these days – have you noticed????), why not career coaching for people with chronic illness? Read this post, Curing Healthcare, Workplace Wellness Programs: Motivating Employees to Live Healthy, – it’s got interesting statistics showing that these programs actually improve the bottom line!
While you’re [...]
I wish I had a dollar bill (remember when it was a nickle?) for every time I get asked about FMLA (the Family Medical Leave Act). People with chronic illness turn to this “benefit” when illness rears it’s ugly head. And, it can be a good option depending on some variables (such [...]
At the Kelly Packowski Foundation for MS, Kelly described how her conversations with grant recipients helped her to realize that she hasn’t accepted that she has this illness.
I talk about this a lot with clients — and other people who contact me — so I was really intrigued by this. She said that she still behaves as [...]
Clark Kent had his cape
A client who lives with MS told me that he wishes he was Clark Kent. With the slip of a cape, he’d become his real self: Superman! And then his left leg work wouldn’t drag, his right hand would grip properly and he’d walk to his car minus the cane.
No one would have [...]
Martin Luther King (check out this website) was my hero when I was a teenager in the 1960’s. He convinced me that an individual can make the world a better place. Sound sappy?
I hope not — but I have to tell you that every moment that I [...]
Everyone in New England (including my family) is watching the Patriots win again but I’m writing a blog. I can’t get my Dad off my mind.
That’s because he’s lying in his hospital bed, breathing through a tube and slowly dying. This afternoon, he motioned for me to come closer so he could whisper a secret: [...]
It’s that time of year again (a new year) and I find myself thinking about what has to get done … and what happens along the way.
From the first conversation that I have with a prospective client, we’re talking about goals, desired outcomes, unfulfilled promise. And it generally boils down to the same thing: what [...]
The beginning of a new year is and probably always will be a time for reflecting on our aspirations and hopes for the future. The second edition of the Headache & Migraine Disease Carnival is filled with suggestions on how to move toward what you want to achieve in 2008 without setting yourself up for [...]
When my podiatrist diagnosed bunions and a hammer toe, I figured it was just one more way that my body doesn’t behave as it “should”.
Like the ulcerative colitis that I’d lived with, there didn’t seem much I could do to prevent it from getting worse. I’d worn orthotics for [...]
