How to live a calmer, more organized life despite your medical, mental health or disability issue!

B'SD

29 Elul, 5773

I'm happy to let you know that I'm doing scholastically well in my ICD-10 medical coding studies. 

My goal is to complete a 2-year college education in about 8 months. I'm speeding ahead in the textbooks and doing well on exams, thanks to great long-term memory (I used to be a medical coder before my 2002 relocation to Israel). Thank GOD I still have an aptitude for studying complicated topics.

Watch this space for a relevant post about the company training me and my classmates. It's coming up next week.

I'm taking time off for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year's celebration.

The 2-day holiday begins this evening and

ends as Shabbat begins.

I plan to post again on Sunday.

Here are some educational links for starting your new year right:

Alpha-Beta Academy on Rosh HaShana. You can click on the colorful illustrations for immediate education on appealing topics, and/or sign up for the Alpha-Beta newsletter.

Click on http://www.aish.com/ for a colorful, thought-provoking exploration into the Jewish look at the new year.




Want to live a calmer, more organized life despite your medical, mental health or disability issue? Improve your perspective and meet more of your goals with E-book or print edition EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

Rabbis, clergy of different faith, medical and mental health professionals recommend it!

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

Fill your life with increasing happiness.

May the world be blessed for a good year.

Have a good night's sleep after the holiday feast, and any night - to help your brain cells! 

See you next year: 5774!

 

A Question for You...

B'SD

10 Nisan, 5773

I'm certified in Counseling Skills and as a Melavah Holim (a sort of spiritual chaplain). I'm always interested to find out how upbeat people remain that way despite life's hardships.

I long to help others to make the breakthrough that gets them to indulge their Inner Totally Decent Self (ben adam in Hebrew) with ever-improving efforts to be Better Than Ever.

I use humor to put clients and friends at ease. It often works. I'd like to find out how you improve yourself.

Willing to let me in on the secret before or after Easter weekend and Passover?

Please share your comments below so other people can grow ;^ D

 

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. 

Learn to like what you see in the mirror.

 

What Would YOU Attempt to Do if You Knew You Could Not Fail?

B'SD


6 Nisan 5772


There's usually a beginning, a muddle and an end to success with some complicated project or other. Health issues qualify as "VERY complicated," whether they're emotional, medical or spiritual, wouldn't you agree?


Perhaps Regina Dugan's TEDTALKS Video can inspire you to ever-greater achievements. Keep your heart and mind focused on the goal. Respect, but do not fear, failure. It just might lead you to an accomplishment or valuable realization.


No matter what's ailing you, I bet you'll feel better fast with quick and convenient: E-book or print edition EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 


PS - Sorry I missed you yesterday. I'm busy with Passover/Pesakh preparations Get a fun overview of what the holiday's about at AISH.


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

How to Protect Your Welfare: DEMAND Accountability in the Mental Health World!

B'SD

5 Shvat 5771


Readers, I've wondered if valid security measures were in place before Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' community-oriented event began. It is odd that local and federal law enforcement officials, and Homeland Security in particular, missed the glaring clues of Jared Loughner's lack of mental health, his contempt for a peaceful American society, and his repeatedly stated threats to public welfare.

Hearts are broken,
lives were lost.

Others hang in the balance.
THAT situation need not
be repeated!

YOU are in a position to demand accountability from your legislators. Arm yourselves with some appropriate reading here:

Dr. Keith: Tragedy of Mental Illness
By Dr. Keith Ablow

Published January 09, 2011
FoxNews.com

The story of Jared Loughner’s murderous rampage, which took the lives of six innocent victims and critically wounded Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will ultimately prove to be a story about how severe mental illness—including that linked to violence—routinely goes untreated.

By all accounts...

Get the full story at http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/09/dr-keith-tragedy-mental-illness/

My prayers, and those of fellow Jews, go to the bereaved and suffering survivors. May all of you heal emotionally and physically.

If you want to reach for mental health professionals you can trust, buy iPhone-friendly E-book EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Read the advice about how to spot ethical practitioners and people to avoid. Find resources for contacting mental health professionals in your part of the world in the back of the book.

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

and PRAY HARDER!

Acknowledge the Rage BUT Cease to Engage

B'SD

11 Shvat 5770



Both "It's MY Crisis!" books address mounting anger at the delays, mixups, pain and fear associated with illness. The manuscripts offer strategies for potential solutions that prevent, lessen and/or cure frustrating situations.

I recently came across an essay about how best to respond to irritating problems. Written by biz guru Seth Godin, it' so on the mark that I choose to share it with you:


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Seth Godin blogmailfromseth@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:25 PM
Subject: Seth's Blog : The false solace of vilification
To:
[You're getting this note because you subscribed to Seth Godin's blog.]

The false solace of vilification

File this one under basic human emotions that marketers need to be aware of.

When a global slowdown, national tragedy or random event hits, people look for someone to blame. If there's no one to blame, sometimes they look for someone to hate, even if it is ultimately self-destructive.

A novice computer user downloads viruses, interacts with spyware and encounters a system crash. He calls tech support for the word processor he uses and lets them have it with both barrels.

A flood hits a town and innocent people die and buildings are destroyed. The widows and bereaved families take it out on the insurance adjuster or government official who has come to help.

The economic downturn hits a town hard and some residents attack, quite personally, the hard-working school board members who had nothing to do with the bad news and in fact represent one of the best ways to ultimately recover.

In each case, the person being hated on is precisely the person who can do the most to help. And yet sometimes, we can't help ourselves. It takes significant emotional maturity to separate the event from the people in proximity to the event, and any marketer or organization that deals with the public needs to embrace the fact that just because you're close to where the bad thing happened doesn't mean it's your fault.

That software tech rep, the one who didn't cause your viruses, she's the very best person to calmly explain how to get rid of them.

That insurance adjuster might be able to get you some money to help you start to rebuild your life.

And the school board? Well if the only asset of value you still own is your house, destroying the school that gives your house its true value to a buyer seems like a version of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I've never once heard someone say, "things are really lousy, but I got a chance to really devastate someone today, deliver some choice barbs, some personal attacks, some baseless innuendo and ruin their day, perhaps even their career. Boy, I feel great."

People don't remember how you behave when everything is going great. They remember how you behave when you're under pressure, stressed out and at wits end.

Emotional maturity is underrated.

PS when confronted with misplaced rage, the proper response is not to point out the misplaced part. It's to acknowledge the rage part. One big reason that vilification occurs is that the angry person feels as though not attention or sympathy is being paid.

The long term solution for marketers (and those that believe in civil society) is to make it socially unacceptable to vent like this. Acknowledge the rage but cease to engage, whenever possible."

Rage can't help you. Insulting people is not a helpful tactic. Engage your better self when you take on your medical and emotional issues, one item at a time. EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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

Need Affordable, Comprehensive Health Insurance with that Pre-Existing Condition? Look Here.

B'SD

14 Menachem Av 5769


Check out this communication via the "Just for Writers" group at LinkedIn (join my LI network).

A gentleman asked members at large:

"How can someone with health problems
(muscular dystrophy, pacemaker),
who wants to write science fiction
novels and short stories for
a living, find affordable,
comprehensive health insurance?

"I've checked with writers unions
and most of them say insurers
would deny me based on
my health problems.

"I'm considering starting a sole
proprietorship so I can become a
group of one and they won't deny
me coverage. Of course, I don't
know if they'll give me
affordable insurance or cover
the various things I need because
of my muscular dystrophy and the
resulting effect on my health.

I'm hoping you've got some ideas
that I haven't thought of. I know
I can find a solution to
this obstacle."

Here's how I replied to the question:

"B'SD

My books about how to cope with medical crises contain relevant information in the "Global Resources" section. See my blog, where you can buy the first edition now. The newer edition of "It's MY Crisis" will likely be released for sale later this month.

Yocheved Golani
http://www.linkedin.com/in/yochevedgolaniink

http://twitter.com/yochevedgolani

http://itsmycrisisandillcryifineedto.blogspot.com/ "

Here's to YOUR best coping with medical challenge efforts!

BUY "It's My Crisis!" COPE with YOUR Medical Challenge.

Cry if you need to.

And learn to dry your tears.

THAT can help you to cope

with a medical challenge.

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

Hire Me to Help You to Cope with Medical Crises

B'SD

2 Menachem Av 5769

Hire Me to Help You to

Cope with Medical Crises:
Five Steps for

Simplifying the Medical Care Monster
by Yocheved Golani
http://www.linkedin.com/in/yochevedgolaniink http://twitter.com/yochevedgolani and

http://itsmycrisisandillcryifineedto.blogspot.com/

Ever heard of my miraculous recovery from a life-threatening brain tumor and how that experience can help YOU?

Find out TODAY.

OK, who's hiring me to help you or your loved one to cope with, maybe even overcome, a medical crisis?

Click on I'm Buying "It's My Crisis!" to Learn How to Cope with a Medical Challenge with a Sense of Humor.

Cry if you need to.

And learn to dry your tears.
THAT can help you

to cope with a medical challenge.

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

Ease the Mind of that Teen!

B'SD

5 Kislev 5769

I've posted information on this issue before. The medical world has alerted us once again that teenagers, adults in training, need every ounce of compassion we owe to them. WHY? Because it is compassionate, decent, and necessary for humanity's wellbeing. Click on

Young Adults Hit by Mental Health Issues

If you'd like to consult with a competent mental health therapist, read the RESOURCES section of my book for relevant contact information worldwide.

CLICK HERE to buy your copy of It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge TODAY! Read about how to find mental health professionals.

Ease a teen's heart and soul. Learn about the calming techniques described in my book, too. Use them.

To everyone's peace of mind,

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