Remove the Wrinkles in Your Gift List: How to Handle the Gift-giving Season

B'SD

26 Kislev, 5776

I've enjoyed the warmth of friendship plus the glow of Hanuka candles at parties for the past two nights. I'm invited to another party this evening, and making one of my own tomorrow night.

I realize that it is Kwanzaa and Christmas season, too, and that many of my readers are wondering about suitable and affordable gifts for friends, family members and work colleagues. I have a list of ideas to offer that could very well meet your needs:

1. Gifts from the heart. Promise to run specific errands or to teach someone a skill you can impart to them. Your investment in time and someone's quality of life is a gift from the heart.

2. Love notes. Leave them around the house or office, praising some behavior, remark or insight in the person you appreciate. A show of appreciation is a gift that lasts forever. All it costs is a bit of time to share your thoughts.

3. Give the person something that they need. If they're ailing or dealing with someone who is sick, they might appreciate a book that they and their loved ones can share to minimize problems and to maximize happiness. Buy a copy of

Click the picture and have it delivered to the recipient when you make your order.

I hope that the above ideas took the wrinkles right out of your furrowed brow and gift list.




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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your shopping list with simple, loving solutions.

Lowering Anxiety with an Education and Kindness

B'SD

1 Tevet, 5775

Before I go further with this blogpost, I want to thank the people who've expressed their sympathy and support to me for contending with that recent "There's another meningioma, and the MRI technician thought it was harming me?" shock to my system.

Your outreach and reaction to the situation is remarkable, the sort of goodness we pray to find in the world.

I want to underscore that it was a mistaken diagnosis. 

Humans are humans. 

GOD blessed me with competent clarification

from the new neurosurgeon on my medical team: 

Nothing is amiss. 

Together we blessed me with the

ability to deal with 
an alarming announcement

in a calm, rational manner. 

My past practice with and dedication to

behaving sensibly, no matter what, paid off well.

My new neurosurgeon and I have a terrifically pleasant rapport. He and I agreed to do another photo-op same time, next year, to monitor things.

He responded pleasantly and thoroughly to all my questions, treating me and the friend who'd escorted me to the appointment with total respect and a sense of humor. I consider the whole phenomenon a gift from GOD.

I didn't post an update yesterday due to being down with a severe cold. The bug felled lots of people in my community. I'm happy to be feeling better today and want to share some important information.

One of the issues that this blog and the

book deal with is mental and emotional health 
(yes, they're individual realities).

I found an online article that highlights a point I make in my personal life and in my self-help coaching plus public speaking efforts: ASK the person with a problem what YOU can do to help them. 

Don't assume anything, not even that you understand the scope of the situation. Prophecy and mind-reading are not part of your picture, OK? 

Here's the article I suggest that you read and share widely: 

9 things I wish people understood about anxiety

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge for yourself, a friend or a loved one. Improve someone's holiday season TODAY!

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Find your inner hero or heroine and live up to him or her. It makes life much more pleasant.

Psst: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge shows you how to do that!

 

Feel Better FAST with a Spiritual Present for the Holiday Season

B'SD

15 Kislev, 5775      

Less than 2 weeks to go until Hanuka. Kawanzaa and Xmas are coming up, too.

Here's something that several people recommend for the people on your gift list who need medical miracles and soothing ways to deal with relevant needs:

I'll be sharing endorsements for the book
(including the updated edition) 
this week. Here's the first one...

January 3, 2007 - My dear Yochi,

Girl, you and I are kindred spirits.

I just finished reading your wonderful manuscript, and I stand in awe of you.

Fifteen and a half years ago I was the recipient of a heart transplant. I know what you mean about being wheeled into surgery, taking one last long lingering look at the people I loved and who loved me as those big doors closed behind me...

You are Jewish and I am Christian, but the importance of the spirituality you described was incredibly accurate. After I had been accepted as a candidate for a transplant, some ladies from my church visited me. One of them chirped, "We are praying that they will find a heart for you."

I was appalled. "Don't do that," I said. "You are praying for something bad to happen to somebody else. Pray as I do - that God will heal me, and leave the means up to Him and the doctors...

OK, God, I thought. You know what's best for me. Here I am. I'm yours...

Your workbook is great... 

Your book should make crises easier to face for most people. You did a great job with it.

Anyone who gets past self-pity long enough to pick that book up and get into it should have an easier time of it.

A crisis is a crisis, and your book doesn't change that. What it does is provide people with some practical advice on how to deal with a crisis.

Great stuff, Yochi!

After reading your book, I feel like hugging you...

Love, Carl

P.S. "A MUST READ for anyone facing a life-threatening or physically crippling illness" -- Carl Phillips, ASTA Certified Hospital Consultant and lay minister. 




Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Fill your mind and heart with faith that you can do so.

 

Good News for Store Owners and Charitable Organizations!

B'SD

28 Tishrei, 5773

The holiday gift-giving season is about to land and YOU can make money while you save money!

Store owners and charitable plus other organization heads: YOU can stock the EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge book at discount bulk rates!!! 

Bulk orders can be made when you click on Booklocker's Wholesale Department.

Provide the book that readers around the world need. Save their time, sanity and more - plus yours - with

Individual readers: EMPOWER Yourselves to Cope with a Medical Challenge by clicking here. 

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. 
Face Your Future with Optimism. 

How to Have a Happier Holiday Season - Even if You're Ill

B'SD


10 Cheshvan 5772

How is It’s MY Crisis! And I’ll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge different from other self-help, inspirational books? Because of the author who wrote it.


I don’t play “Holier than you” games nor do I pretend that all will sweet if only you follow the suggestions in the book. What I have done from cover to cover, is to acknowledge the pain, confusion and anger that go with illness. Then I share practical, proven ways to “Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.” Different chapters show you how to tame the insurance and medical paperwork monster, how to remember every medical appointment and medication (including what they’re for!); even the names of all the doctors involved in your medical care or your loved one’s.


I added humorous takes on life throughout the E-book and print edition, including a “knock ‘em flat” response to critics who insist you have no right to cry "... because G’D only gives what we can handle” (ever heard of a nervous breakdown? Death? Lifelong disabilities? The need to recover from a setback?). They and I let you laugh so you can restore your sense of perspective, your zest for life AND your better self to the overall picture. You might even end up feeling better about G'D!


There’s a reason that medical and mental health professionals recommend

One of them even saved his life with it! Another gives it to patients on chemotherapy and to addicts in rehab. “They don’t call me much after that,” he chuckles. “They feel better just reading the book!”


I’m different from other authors in the medical, self-help and inspirational genre because I’m honest about what it takes to cope with harsh reality and end up smiling. No white-washing with me. Just solid stress-busting information proven to work over time, plus time-saving leads to the cost-cutting information ill people need.

Get someone (including yourself!) a great gift for the holiday season. Let them learn how to enjoy it more, and at all, when they read

Have a Happier Holiday Season - Even if You're Ill. EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Click the photo of the book to buy it from Booklocker or click here.


Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Make Mall Shopping More Fun

B'SD

29 Kislev 5771


It's a sad fact of life that as the masses glom onto "stuff" to celebrate a season of spirituality, human behavior inevitably breaks down. It must. People are over-focusing on self-satisfaction. sigh...

Here's something to help you to cope with the stress of mall madness:

7 Quick Tips to Avoid a Meltdown
When you feel like
strangling the guy in front of you
at Target,
read these 7 Quick Ways to Calm Down.

Focus on your better self, even when you're ill.

Feel better the first time you read a book about how to cope with illness.

BUY
E-book

"It's MY Crisis!
And I'll Cry If I Need To:
EMPOWER Yourself to
Cope with a Medical Challenge"

at

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TODAY.

Spiritual. Soothing. E-book EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Feel better fast after you buy it from Booklocker: http://www.booklocker.com/books/4244.html

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Save Money on Medical Costs with a Book Clergy Recommend! Here's How...

B'SD

28 Kislev 5771


Kwanzaa and Christmas are coming and you know what means!

BILL$$$$$$$!!!!

Here's how to reduce your costs, especially with
medical expenses.

offers advice on how to calm down, how to recover your sense of humor and how to

SAVE MONEY on medical costs!

Yes, this E-book can save you mounds of money with information on low-cost and no-cost 1st-quality medical care, medication, medication, medical appliances, medical transportation and a whole lot more!

Give a gift that lights up faces and improves the quality of the lives you love and cherish.

Send copy to the monitor of someone special who's facing illess (including yourself!). No lines, no waiting. Click the link below and zap it to your desired destination.

E-book
"It's MY Crisis!
And I'll Cry If I Need To:
EMPOWER Yourself to
Cope with a Medical Challenge"
only at
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One more thought: the holiday season is about Spiritual matters most of all. Guess why clergy of different faiths so enjoy EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge and recommend it widely? They find it INSPIRATIONAL.

You can, too :^ D

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Reduce Holiday Costs with Three Affordable, Heartfelt Presents

B'SD

30 Tishrei 5771 (WOW a Jewish month with 30 days! Rare.)

OK, you know how to reduce the stress and strain during your holiday travel. Now I'll share ideas about how to reduce your costs. Why now? Because newspapers and magazines tend to run such stories too close to holiday time, when you can't pull new projects together so fast. Ready? Read on:

Presents do not have to
come with price tags.

1. Do some crafts that will be appreciated. I just turned a denim skirt with lovely trim, but so torn that I can't wear it, into a gorgeous shoulder bag for someone! Plan how you can make something from "nothing."

2. Provide some services. Think out of the box and focus on what friends and family keep asking for. Somebody wants a maid (I keep joking that I need a butler)? Tidy up their garage, home or office, or sweep up messy leaves. Share some of the plants that grew in your garden or do garden maintaintence as your gift to someone special. Paint, repair or move something that needs it as you delightfully surprise the beneficiary. Leave a hand-made card behind with your best holiday wishes, whatever you do.

3. Share some of the jokes and funny stories books, movies or television shows you like, even some ideas in EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge http://www.booklocker.com/books/4244.html

Lighten the mood for someone you love and appreciate. Ease their mind and heart this holiday season. The E-book is full of humor, can-do coping suggestions and money-saving information (including for travelers with medical issues!). Reread your favorite parts of the book together.

Happy holidays!

And puh-leez
don’t send the kids
Trick-or-Treating
this year.

Headlines always mourn
innocent victims of some
sicko who poisoned the
candy or filled it with
pins.

Make safe, easily supervised
home or school parties
instead.

The idea book for a healthier, happier life: Quick and convenient E-book EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge http://www.booklocker.com/books/4244.html

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Great Gifts for Healthier Holidays! And Some Thought-Provoking Questions...

B'SD

20 Kislev 5770


WOW! Hanukah starts this weekend! Buy your copy of E-book

or 2007 print edition

TODAY!

Need a stocking-stuffer for Xmas? A Kwanzaa present-a-looza for someone sick? You know what to do!

BTW, if you already have that reading material, let me and other blog readers know:

What Do you Think of the Book(s)?

How Do you Feel now that

you've read your copy?

What Will You Do with

what you've learned?

What is Your Opinion

of the content?

What is Your Story of

benefiting from my writing?

What is Your Experience or Example of

Coping with Medical Crisis?

What Have you Been Working On

in your new goals?

Wishing you happier holidays,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

A User-Friendly How-to Book that Improves Your Health and Coping Skills!

B'SD

6 Kislev 5770


Why would you want to buy this E- book for yourself or someone else at holiday season?

It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge teaches readers how to rev up their energy and happiness levels on multiple levels! And WOW is it ever User Friendly;^ )

Check out some of the ideas presented in the manuscript:

One: eat nutrition-dense and age-reversing organic foods that repair cellular damage.

Two: Spend all the time you need with books, music and other media that strengthen your emotions and worldview.

Three: Count your blessings and list them on paper if that serves your emotional strengthening needs.

Four: Get into an exercise regime you can live with and enjoy (I do not advocate making yourself believe you must be a slave to the exercise gods. Working out needs to be fun so you have good short-term and long-term reasons to stick with it.).

Want to sample the text? Click the flapping pages and take the book for a test drive:



To Your ever-improving health and coping skills,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Help for Holiday Shopping!

B'SD

5 Kislev 5770

Make sure your gift purchases arrive in time!

Buy Online!

WHAT? You still haven't recovered from last year's Mall Madness? And you're wondering how to finish your new Hanuka, Kwanzaa, and Xmas shopping list without losing your patience, let alone your budget?

Here's an easy Holiday Helper:

Order
and let the publisher zap it to someone's monitor. You won't even need to giftwrap the present.

Do you want to buy a book to hold in your hands? The first edition comes in a colorful paperback format. Buy it TODAY for on-time delivery!


EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Minimize the High Cost of Medical Care with an E-Book Doctors Recommend

B'SD


4 Tishrei 5770


The New York Times Health Blog features a story I understand all too well:

Going Broke Caring for Aging Parents

I saw such nightmares shaping up and become reality when I supervised medical records in various medical institutions years ago. The expensive realities destroyed family relationships as funds dried up, patience ended, medical conditions worsened and tears flowed without end.

Human suffering reached greater dimensions despite ever-new legislation to end or to limit the problems of caring for aging parents in an age of skyrocketing medical costs.

One troubling aspect of caring for aged parents is "Empty Well Syndrome," often suffered by daughters-in-law forced to deal with less involved spouses and their rollercoasting emotions, the children they're supposed to be raising, and competing demands from increasingly frail parents and/or in-laws. It leaves those women emotionally and physically drained.

No end appears to be in sight. Unless you look at the problem in a vastly different way, as I did.

I took readers outside the information maze.

I gave them can-do coping strategies

and cost-cutting information

in the palms of their hands.

I even teach how to repair and avoid

"Empty Well" problems.

Read my profile on the right-hand margin of this blog once more. I wrote a book to prevent and to minimize the heartache I saw at work on a daily basis. My own medical drama gave me necessary insight to finally write the book that YOU and everyone with aging relatives needs.

Actually, ANYBODY with a medical crisis can benefit from

It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To:

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope

with a Medical Challenge

Good news for private businesses and charitable organizations:

Holiday Gifts for Business Clients and Supporters, Charitable Organizations

The holiday season is almost here! Sponsor a dedicated print run edition of doctor-recommended "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge" as client or fundraising gifts to business & charitable organizations.

The holiday season is nearing as hearts are sinking with worsening health care prospects. Your business and/or charitable organization can turn that around. Sponsor dedicated print runs of the highly acclaimed book "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge." Your business or charitable organization logo imprinted on the book's dedication page can make a positive impact on recipients of your unique holiday gift.

Present copies to clients, supporters and beneficiaries. EMPOWER them to learn of global resources for cost-cutting, quality medical care and superb coping strategies for handling a world of emotions and health care tasks. Improve the quality of life for all concerned.

The GLOBAL RESOURCES
section includes
Information about AFFORDABLE
(sometimes FREE):

Medical Insurance,
Medication,
Medical Appliances
Cutting-edge treatment and
Medical Practitioners,
Can-do Coping Skills
Medical Transportation options & more.

Medical and mental health professionals use and recommend "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge." Create positive outcomes for all concerned at an emotionally dramatic and financially draining time of year. Sponsor a print run with your business or charitable organization logo imprinted on the book's dedication page. Improve the health of your business or charitable community.

The book validates emotional and physical pain. Cry if you need to. And learn how to dry your tears.

THAT can help you to EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life