Open, honest and safe communication is a fundamental part of a healthy relationship. The first step to building a relationship is making sure you both understand each other’s needs and expectations—being on the same page is very important. That means you have to talk to each other! The following tips can help you and your […]
Mindfulness and the Mind-body Connection The substantial and significant link between mindfulness and stress reduction is centered within the mind- body connection. Although Western medicine has tended to view the mind-body connection as pseudoscience or a fringe concept, this attitude is changing as neuroscientists discover and chart the neural pathways that connect thoughts and emotions […]
Mindfulness and Well-being By helping you begin to recognize your habitual thinking patterns and other ingrained behaviors, mindfulness can play a significant role in enhancing your psychological and physical well-being. However, it can be difficult to sit back and watch your neuroses and problematic behaviors, as what we discover typically doesn’t fit the pretty […]
What is Mindfulness? “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom” (Pattakos 2008, viii). -Viktor Frankl Mindfulness is about being fully aware of whatever is happening in the present moment, without filters or the lens of […]
By Elizabeth Sukys-Rice “In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.” ― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember Stress seems to […]
By Elizabeth Sukys-Rice Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. -Viktor Frankl Qualitative vs Quantitative When we begin to look at the act of dying well be sure to have those important […]
By Elizabeth Sukys-Rice “You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.” – Dame Cicely Saunders, nurse, physician and writer, and founder of hospice movement (1918 – 2005). Past […]
The Choices are Up to You As I conduct in-depth research on the brain, in preparation for a seminar in March where I have been asked to be a Keynote Speaker. I have been mesmerized by the power we possess in assisting and developing our brain function, as the title of this article states, At […]
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Physical independence is the ability to perform common everyday activities without additional assistance from adaptive equipment or the help of a caregiver. Muscle strength, muscle mass and aerobic capacity all deteriorate during normal day to day living, this can reduce mobility and diminishes the quality of life. General stressor presents many challenges physically with very […]