Contemplative practices for adults, older adults, and their caregivers
During the life transition of family caregiver recovery, create a healing environment for yourself. Put away the medical equipment and supplies, and fill your space with who and what you love – perhaps plants, essential oils, or some new photos. Source: Holistic Tips for Recovering After Family Caregiving, Gale Lyman, June 2019. We must make …
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Blog #4 in the Soothing Series: Gentle ways to regain your composure and find some inner peace What do you find to be beautiful? I asked a few friends and heard a variety of answers: a blue sky, a smooth beach pebble, the red rocks of Sedona, a Navaho blanket, my husband’s blue eyes, my …
Being a family caregiver for a loved one who needs help with medical, emotional, physical, or cognitive challenges can be amazing. It can also take a toll on your body, mind and spirit. When family caregiving is done, the challenges that arose and impacted your health and finances don’t magically go away. Recovering after family …
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Blog #3 in the Soothing Series: Gentle ways to regain your composure and find some inner peace Sometimes, attaining a state of relaxation seems impossible. Even if you know the benefits – quality sleep, resistance to infection, less muscle pain, better problem solving - you cannot get to a relaxed state from your stressed state. …
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Four minutes. That’s all the time you need to feel more relaxed. Is your peace of mind worth four minutes of your time? Yes! You are worth it! The guided meditation in this blog is free and available to you whenever you need it. Any questions?! What is guided meditation? The simplest and quickest form …
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There is no lack of people, magazines, TV commercials and other ads that tell you what you must do to be healthy. Wellness is often considered the absence of illness or dis-ease. But what is well-being? It is a state of being that is more holistic, more inclusive, more about quality of life. What does …
Blog #2 in the Soothing Series: Gentle ways to regain your composure and find some inner peace For years, I commuted to Boston. Driving home after a particularly aggravating workday, I realized that everyone had irritated me: my supervisor, my colleagues, and even my patients. I found myself muttering about what I could have said, …
Blog #1 in the Soothing Series: Gentle ways to regain your composure and find some inner peace How do caring for birds and contemplative practices overlap? With Zen cords! What a lovely win-win! Here’s the back story. My home has sliding glass doors out onto a deck, beyond which is a bird feeder. It’s too …
by Gale Lyman, RN, BSN, HNB-BC. An estimated 44 million Americans are family caregivers (NAC & AARP, 2015), dedicated to caring for their loved ones. When caregiving is done, many would describe it as a sacred time, something they would willingly do again. Even so, a 2015 survey revealed that 21 percent of caregivers think …
with Deanna Smith. Published previously in the Port Planet, January 2009 Most adults need eight hours of sleep to function well. Many may think they can get by on less, but actually less than 10% of the population can do this. If you are sleepy at bedtime, and are not sleepy during the day, you …
