Defining Your Problems and Meeting Your Goals

B'SD

2 Tevet, 5775  

Today's the last day of Hanuka/Chanuka. I'm wistful for it to linger.

The 8-day holiday is about problems and goals, raw courage, and leadership. Lots of life lessons are packed into those historical days. For example: You know about the male Maccabees. Click on What Do Jewish Women Have to Do with Chanuka? to learn more.

Okay, back to today. I decided to prepare some Hanuka food this past week. My arms are tired from hand-grating potatoes and onions, then frying them into luscious livivot aka latke treats in a cast iron skillet. 

Making the potato pancakes, then cleaning the mess (a BIG, messy mess), were goals and problems met and solved with some tried and true solutions.

Now let's digress into some medical matters. Those can be a bunch of problems and a "How do I - or you - meet important goals?" headache of a goal to meet!

Suffering tends to wear us down, along with our thinking skills. You know all about it. What you might not know is how to overcome the sorrow, fear, anger, forgetfulness, temper tantrums and other emotional issues so that you can think clearly again. 

Your emotions are one thing. But life, especially a medical or mental health issue life, can be complicated by the emotions of other people, too. 

The emotions of your family members, colleagues, and friends are a whole 'nuther universe. Let's deal all of that, one person at a time: You, you and you. 

You're the only person under your control.

Take a  look at how marketing professionals stay calm under pressure.

Increase your happiness hormones, endorphins, with 5 steps to lower stress and stay calm.

Use calming affirmations.

What are your medical problems?

What are your goals in dealing with them?

There is guidance about how to
deal with all the problematic people
in your medical life
throughout

 
Which pages of the book help you to cope with the stress from in-laws and outlaws, siblings, parents, children, medical professionals and... (fill in the blank as necessary)? 

Please let me know what works for you via E-mail. I'll be delighted to respond to your message. I won't share your comments unless you ask me to.

Lots of solution-oriented, mental health professionals-approved tips are packed into the EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge book. It's full of YOU Can-Do-This solutions.

 

If you or someone who needs it haven't read the book yet, 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. 

Flatten your stress levels. Get your grin back.

 

Here's What to Do When People Insult Stressed-out You

B'SD

9 Adar, 5773

One of the complications about having a medical, disability or mental health problem is that people tend to run out of sympathy for the sufferers over the long term.

It is the sufferers responsibility, and opportunity, to improve their response(s) to their dilemmas and lingering issues. That's what maturity is all about. Mature people make cultured, reasonable responses to their overall situations and to the specifics of their problems. 

Whining is not an adult response to stress. Pity parties will happen from time to time, though. That's life, and a signal to strengthen your sense of self and inner strength.

But what can you do when criticism is aimed at struggling you as you work on mastering that cultured, mature response to whatever's ailing you? 

Share this story with the critic.

A young lady confidently walked 
around the room 
while leading and explaining 
 stress management 
to an audience 
while holding a raised glass of water. 

Everyone knew she was going to ask 
the ultimate question, 
"Half empty or half full?"

She fooled them all. 

"How heavy is this glass of water?" 
she asked with a smile. 

Audience members called out answers ranging from 8 ounces to 20 ounces.

She replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long I hold it.  If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm.

"If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance. In each case it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes. And that's the way it is with stress. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on.

"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden - holding stress longer and better after each time we practiced our coping strategies."

[Back to me, Yocheved, now] Now you can look your critic(s) in the eye and say "I'm doing the best I can given the situation. I'm making efforts to deal with stress better over time. I'd appreciate your patience and compassion the whole time.

Fulfill your intention to face stress with increased calm just as the sign-off message to this blog indicates: Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Buy the E-book or print edition that can help you to do so TODAY! Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a MedicalChallenge. 

                         

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.

Face Your Future with Optimism.

Develop that mature, cultured response with suggestions in the book.

Need one more resource to boost your mood? Listen to http://www.newsforthesoul.com/ EFT tapping can be quite helpful.

Going for counseling to deal with your stress? Do what the EMPOWER Yourself book suggests: Rely only on clergy and therapists who display complete respect for your well-being. Avoid abusers.

Less stress and keep your cash, that’s the theme of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. It teaches you how to organize your medical and/or disability life, how to save money on medical costs and how to get your grin back in one reading. Buy it from Booklocker here. 

Mood Boosting Strategies that Work!

B'SD


26 Adar 5772


A reporter looking for "Mood boosting Strategies" to round out her article on the topic just received this mesage from me:


"... medical and mental health professionals recommend the mood-boosting messages in It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. World renown psychiatrist Dr. A. Twerski gives copies to people on chemo and overcoming addictions. He tells me they call him less as the book is so helpful to them. Methodist minister Carl Phillips found the spiritual content 'Right on!'  Rabbis approve of it too. Readers around the world are buying the book and feeling happier for it."


I've even shared those mood boosters in the book with friends in the south of Israel, where terrorists have been bombarding civilians with rockets since March 9th. The tips are indeed helping my acquaintances to cope with their fears and then some.

Ready to lift your mood? 

Read

Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter mood any day: Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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





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Meet the Author Tonight!

B'SD


24 Adar 5772

Care to meet me at 

a book-signing event 

this evening?

I have a fun program planned for Sunday evening 7-8PM March 18 2012. 


A January audience in Netanya enjoyed it so much that they delayed my departure for more than an hour. I'll be sharing the fun this evening, as you learn how to lower your stress and how to reduce your medical costs - painlessly.

I look forward to meeting you in Jerusalem's AACI building (corner of 37 Pierre Koenig/2 Poalei Tzedek, Talpiot)! Yes you can buy signed copies of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge from me. 


Call AACI at Tel: 972-2-5661181 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            972-2-5661181      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or Fax: 972-2-5661186 for directions.

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

Wake Up to Wonder and a Healthier, Happier YOU with 1 New Year's Resolution!

B'SD


29 Kislev 5772

Readers contact me almost daily to remark 

about how much

HELPS them.

Disability advocates, medical and mental health professionals, and regular people happy to lower their stress and to reduce the costs of their health care are letting me know that they're happier, more functional and much more organized because they followed the book's suggestions.

This message from Israel-based charitable organization MELABEV, devoted to helping people with Alzheimer's, recently went out via E-mail: 

"A tremendous thank you to Yocheved Golani 

for the donation her very practical and inspiring book 

to the Melabev Lending Library! 

"It's my Crisis and I'll Cry if I Need To" 

 is a useful, compassionate guide for people 

undergoing the challenge of coping with an illness. 

For more info or to order, see: 

 http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html ..."

Making New Years resolutions to help someone with Alzheimers or some other medical, emotional, disability, or health (mental, spiritual and physical) problem? You know what to do. Click http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html

Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter holiday season: Click on the words to EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge!

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

How to Grow from Stress

B'SD


9 Kislev




One of the mental health practitioners who endorse EMPOWER Yourself is world-famous psychiatrist Dr. Abraham Twerski. He specializes in helping people past their addictions. He also addresses other emotional and mental health issues. Listen to what he teaches us about how to respond to adversity/stress, whatever you care to call the things that go kerflooey in life (including ourselves):

Dr. Twerski gives

 
 

to addicts and to patients on chemotherapy. He teases me that they call him less after that. "They calm down from reading what you wrote."

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

Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter holiday season and all year 'round: Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

An Interesting Compliment and a Wonderful Cause

B'SD


21 Elul 5771



 I've been busy with writing assignments, personal life and preparing for the High Holiday season. Outta the blue, I saw this message on my monitor:

"Your book looks good, practical,
and resourceful. I'll make sure
to share this info around.
Shana Tova, Moshe"

The writer is:
Moshe Ross (phone 310.362.7037)
Private Redemption Foundation
Keren Kayemet #13/6, Jerusalem 92428, Israel
8950 W Olympic Blvd. #479, Beverly Hills, California 90211
http://www.privateredemption.org/ (tax ID #54-2195251)


He works with an charitable organization that does remarkable things for desperate people:


[Volunteer Opp] A US 100% tax-deductible High Holidays donation opportunity exists with a non-profit operating in Jerusalem that provides help to broken and desperate Jewish women, motivated and capable, that have experienced sudden catastrophe in their life and are right now struggling to meet fundamental needs. Among them are women and children that recently lost their husband and father, young women who have become ill, and elderly and orphans that are living in the deepest despair.


Your heartfelt generosity will make it possible for them to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, knowing they can stay securely in their homes with food on their tables and with the most basic household necessities.


Private Redemption Foundation provides emergency assistance plus long-term solutions, including holiday meals, rent subsidies, basic needs, jobs, financial planning & more.


Please donate online at www.PrivateRedemption.org or mail your US 100% tax-deductible check to Private Redemption Foundation (US Tax ID #54-2195251), Keren Kayemet #13/6, Jerusalem, or 8950 W Olympic Blvd. #479, Beverly Hills, CA, 90211.


Volunteers can also help to make a real difference in helping to turn lives around by contributing their skills, talents or time.


Share this with everyone you know: Facebook, Linked-in, email, phone, SMS...did I leave anyone out? For more information, endorsements, testimonials and 1-minute movies please visit http://www.privateredemption.org/.


Thank you and best wishes for a good, sweet New Year.


Moshe Ross
Los Angeles to Jerusalem 2010




WHY is he so interested in the book? Because the soothing text provides coping skills for distressed readers, and lots of information about how to lower your medical expenses.

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Buy it at Booklocker today!

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

STRESS TEST Survival!

B'SD

5 Tamuz 5771


One of my Facebook fans called me today. She described a patient abuse case so bad I began to cry with her!

I told her which pages of "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge" address the problem and how to prevent it. I informed her of how to file a formal complaint with powers-that-be. GET THE BOOK to protect your loved ones!

is filled with info on how to reduce stress, techniques for how to manage stress - including natural stress relief techniques - and even how to lower the financial costs of medical problems. THEY'RE only some of the ways to relieve stress in this one-stop stress relief kit.


Find me on Facebook! Click http://tinyurl.com/36fqch3, then click LIKE.

Get the stress relievers in EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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

Solving Some of Britain's Medical Crisis in One Calming Read with Time for Tea, 1-2-3

B'SD

Nisan 2, 5771

Brits, you already know the awful news: In England, patients wait months for routine surgeries...

Here's a simple solution for free and/or low-cost QUALITY Healthcare options WORLDWIDE (some can even be delivered to your door)!

Need to know which part of the world can provide the medical care, even surgery, that you need? Seeking help for free air transportation to that medical site? Want a free wheelchair? Affordable, even free 1st-quality medication and other necessary assistance?

E-book "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge" can soothe you and lower your financial costs, let alone allow you to enjoy a cup of tea.

Go ahead, read it and see what it does for you.



Buy cost-cutting, stress-busting quick and convenient: E-book EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4244.html

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

Snore No More!

B'SD

12 Tevet 5771




Sleeping is supposed to restore your strength and clarity of thought. But snoring messes them up A LOT.

Here's a quick article link to Stop Snoring Now and another to an article I like to call Improve Your Memory with Better Sleep.

It's supposed to be common knowledge that a few behaviors promote better, deeper sleep:

Regular Sleep Habits that include
relaxing rituals before sleep time
and same bed-time each night.

Discussing Your Troubles and
possible solutions to them
with someone you trust
before bedtime (keeping
bedtime journals can be
helpful, too)

Letting Go of Stressful Thoughts
Before Bedtime (this includes
apologizing to people you care
about before going to sleep,
praying for insight and guidance

to deal with the issues in your life).

There are alternative healing products that promote sleep, but I hestitate to mention them. You'll be far better off with genuinely natural sleep preceded by good sleep-promoting habits.

Hoping you'll enjoy snoreless, deeper Zzzzzzz...

Holiday/travel season is a major stressor. So are terrorism fears. Take sensible precautions, pray often and reduce your to-do list. Lower your stress levels as best you can, focusing on the sweetness in your life.

Here's an item to lower your trips to the mall and your gift budget. Buy someone a stress-reducing, cost-cutting E-book entitled EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Click on the flipping pages below for a sample of the text:

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

Do WIKILEAKS Scare You? Here's Relief!

B'SD

23 Kislev 5771


WOW, Wikileaks are raising blood pressures around the world! I bet that's affecting your health in many ways. Here's something for instant relief and recently released on the Internet: the Giggle Box Project!

Since it is holiday season when advertisers and acquaintances insist that you "should" feel "happy," you might be feeling sadder than you can handle. Here's another helpful idea: As



advises, do things that leave you satisfied, soothed and rested. The book holds many suggestions for such activities, despite your physical limitations.

Speak with a therapist or member of the clergy who can help you to feel better. Remember what my book advises: work with someone who respects you. Anyone who tries to make your fearful or upset in any way is not someone who should be in your life. Especially not at a low point. Intimidation is NOT spiritual nor helpful.





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

One Simple Tool Packed with Possibilities & Cost-Cutting Solutions to Medical Needs

B'SD

25 Tishrei 5771


YAY!!!! Welcome to the "It's MY Crisis and I'll Cry if I Need To" blog. You just began a brand new week of insight, packed with possibilities and cost-cutting solutions to medical needs.

Read the book that medical and mental health professionals recommend. Learn to set gradually growing goals for yourself and how to achieve them. Calm down, then find solutions as your smile grows. EMPOWER Yourself to cope with medical and emotional challenges (including rude comments from people who ought to behave better). Get a free peek at the iPhone-friendly content when you click on this image:

You can buy the E-book with many time- and money-saving solutions for health by clicking on http://www.booklocker.com/books/4244.html.

Let me know how it helps you or your loved ones.

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

Have FUN with Motivation! (Just Like B-Ball Star Tamir Goodman)

B'SD

Here's a mid-day break to make you smile inside and out. Basketball star Tamir Goodman used to visit my home when I briefly lived in Baltimore. He's a quite a nice guy.

Check out Tamir's Just Fly video.

Now create a fun scenario for YOUR motivational needs. Go on. Have FUN! I dare ya to EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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

Want to Lose Weight? Improve Your Mood? Here's What to Do.

B'SD

27 Iyar 5770



The gentleman below learned an emotional lesson that might help you to improve your mood and lose some weight. He wondered what Social Networks (friendship) and Obesity have in common. Click on the video below to learn the unexpected answer:






EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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

HeartMath - How to De-Stress in French, German Japanese and Spanish!

B'SD

22 Iyar 5770



Here are helpful ideas for how to calm down when life just refuses to be nice. You know the feeling. So does HeartMath Institute, which offers this free online tool: A De-Stress Kit for Our Changing Times.





Want more de-stress tools that a few world-famous psychotherapists recommend? READ EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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

Get Your Grin Back!

B'SD

3 Tishrei 5770



Clients of Giveret Golani Self-help Coaching can climb enormous emotional mountains. People I work with adore my sense of humor at how to overcome the ruts, roadblocks and rollercoaster emotions in life. Laughter is contagious. And it's a heck of a motivator!

Here's a video that demonstrates one type of technique I use with distressed people who ask how they can overcome being stuck in a humorless sense of helplessness:



Yep, I share techniques for making coping with crises and even mere nuisances the road to accomplishment, increased happiness and self-empowerment.

Get your grin back with Giveret Golani Self-Help Coaching.

Ask me how ;^ )


EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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