Life Altering Illnesses

Personal Services for Families and Individuals

Health and healing care can best be understood within the totality of the unique individual and family life. We have learned that our health and healing is strongly affected by feelings and relationships and that taking certain kinds of psychological and social action can affect our healing and our quality of life positively. Sometimes this makes a crucial difference. There are certain psychological and social steps people with cancer or other major medical conditions can take to to increase their self-healing and self-repair abilities and bring these more strongly to the aid of their medical program. Through consultation, coaching, counseling, education and training I will partner with you to:

• Deal with the emotional and interpersonal issues that always accompany a major illness or life change for you and those you're involved with
• Understand the mind-body connection and enhance your mind-body connection toward greater strength and resilience
• Develop your strategies for doing all you can to work with your health care team and your own personal support team for acute or long term problems
• Navigate the complex health care system in and out of the hospital
• Regain your equilibrium for self and family in the ever changing terrain of illness and health care services
• Minimize burnout for yourself and all those concerned about you
• Balance work, family and illness whether crisis, short term or long term changes and balancing are needed
• Find ways for you to be of value and finding meaning irrespective of your condition, time remaining and circumstances. It's never too late to make a difference.
• Help lighten the load of those who love you so they can more easily love and enjoy you
• Maintain emotional stability about end-of-life concerns, feelings, communications and relationships
• Ensure that late-life and end-of-life wishes are clear, communicatied and carried out

Health and Illness Coaching and Counseling

Coaching is one of today's most powerful tools. Most of us know there are health-related changes we should make, or find it difficult to do all we might for ourselves when faced with a serious illness. With coaching we can put into practice much more - sometimes up to 80% more of what we learn or desire. Working together with an expert personal and family coach who has extensive counseling knowledge and experience as a foundation can help individuals and families optimally respond to the changes, challenges and opportunities of aging, illness, care-giving and care-receiving.

I will partner with you to:

• Understand and recruit the full-spectrum of self repair
• Make strategic changes in health, behavior, life style, attitudes and beliefs
• Apply psychological and mind-body tools to support you in regaining health or slowing disease progression
• Expand your coping skills, flexibility and resilience
• Remodel yourself -what to let go of, what to keep, what to add, in response to your changing circumstances
• Implement preventive and optimal health practices
• Strengthen the collaboration between medicine and the innate powers of your own healing systems.
• Receive care and give care in the most helpful and balanced way possible
• Continue to maintain and even strengthen important relationships despite the challenges of illness or loss
• Create care-sharing teams for you and your primary caregiver

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