Digital Devices Endanger Children!

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21 Cheshvan, 5779

I've written about the problem as a medical/mental health journalist. You need to know how to be protective of your health and that of youngsters too naive or too lacking in self-control when it comes to digital device usage. Too much of it endangers health, especially that of developing brains!

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I've long known about digital dangers. The Global Resources section of the FIRST EDITION Of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge listed book titles on that topic. That's why I have a landline and prefer to limit my use of a cellphone.

It's a sad statement of affairs when parents are too busy to mind their children. There is such richness to enjoy when you teach a child how to be sociable, how to master desired skills, how to love. The consequences of letting a fussy, sad, or frightened child play with a digital device when they need a parent's warm hug or assuring words is so damn damaging. If an autistic, ADD or ADHD child is pacified with devices, it destroys so much potential for their developing character.

YES, I sympathize with an adult's need to chill, to let the toy take over while mom or dad rest and recharge their own batteries. But that is a far cry from using the digital device as a pet sitter one day after the other. Children are human beings, with a 20-year lifespan to grow up. Parents are supposed to use that time building relationships, teaching the skills, etc.

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The Answer is "YES!"

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16 Cheshvan, 5779

Can a positive attitude improve your health?

The EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge book emphasizes the fact that upbeat attitudes, even when you have to fake them, can better your health. I know it to be true. 

When I was faced with a life-threatening BENIGN brain tumor crushing all the nerves going from my head to my spine, and emergency surgery that could possibly get the tumor out - if I didn't die during the procedure - I told everyone interacting with me: "I have one chance to remain alive and healthy. I'm taking it!"

I forbade everyone from making negative remarks to me during the 1.5 year-long recovery as I pursued physical, occupational, and speech therapy (I needed to recover from a surgically broken jaw that impeded my ability to speak clearly).

My life-coaching efforts are geared to helping my clients to take on upbeat attitudes. They ALL report positive improvements to their physical and/or mental health.

Here's MORE PROOF that your positive mood, even when you pretend to be happy, can improve your health.

 https://www.israel21c.org/can-positive-emotions-shrink-cancer-tumors/

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Fill your futue with relief.

What to DO When Health Insurance Doesn't Cover ALL of Your Needs

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15 Cheshvan, 5779

I noticed this news item in a  update:

• Having health insurance won't necessarily safeguard seriously ill patients from financial disaster, writes Margot Sanger-Katz ~ 1,495 Americans Describe the Financial Reality of Being Really Sick (New York Times)

You might be nodding your head, or sighing, in recognition of the problem.

That's one of the reasons that you 

need to read

The soothing prose in the book is one thing, and the GLOBAL RESOURCES section quite another. Read it all the way through to learn about organizations willing to help you to pay some or all of your specific medical expenses. 

Need a free this or that? 

A low-cost option for first-quality medicine and/or medical care? 

Information on how to accomplish a goal that you need to reach?


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Medical and mental health professionals recommend it on and off the cover.






Find out how to cope with medical and/or mental health problems, including the expenses for your care.

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Fill your options with can-do choices.

Good News on the US Healthcare Scene!

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13 Cheshvan, 5779

There's good news on the American healthcare scene. If you disagree, think back to when doctors were leaving the medical profession in startling numbers every month. Insurance issues were killing the healthcare industry back then, let alone people.

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Paige Winfield Cunningham - Administration is helping to drive down health care costs

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Fill your mind with calm, your body with relaxation.

Why Self-Help Books Are GOOD for YOU!

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8 Cheshvan, 5779

I'm thank GOD OK after last night's missile blast in my neighborhood. I hadn't planned on blogging this week due to my hectic schedule, but I changed my mind after realizing that some of you might want to know how I'm faring after the headline-making event.

While you're here, let me share some insight with you. 

Question:  Why are self help books good for many people? 

Self-help books never lose patience, never run out of time, nor fail to deliver desired information. They let a person look up the answers they need any time of day, no matter the circumstances. That's a lot easier than listening to someone snap at you that "I answered that question already. I don't have time or patience for this/you."

Year after year I learn of readers who helped themselves after reading the EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge print or E- book http://tinyurl.com/mycrisis-book self-help book,

People despair of asking doctors about their symptoms and hoping that the next form of treatment will help them to be healthier physically and/or emotionally. They cower from rude relatives and medical staff members telling them what to do or not do, and what to think. And they need to strengthen their hope in GOD after all the suffering that they've experienced. But the frightened, sore, feeling intimidated patient doesn't know how to address all those problems. EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge print or E- book http://tinyurl.com/mycrisis-book  lets them know what to do, why that can work, and even how to lower heir medical care costs. The book has a Global Resources section to alert readers to worldwide charitable organizations willing to give applicants some or all of the money needed to cover specific medical bills. There are free goods and services listed in those pages, things that most people wouldn't guess to exist.

A Health Information Management professional who interacts with the medical world, I parlayed my knowledge about it all into the book. My life-coaching skills soothe upset readers. They get their grin back after reading some of the laugh-out-loud content. And as we know, happiness and calm let a person heal inside and out. Cure is not the book's goal, improved coping skills are.

All of the upbeat results let the books readers help themselves as needed, any time of day or night. No need to bother someone with "I forgot what to do" remarks. The book is endlessly patient and ready to be read as needed.

By the way, the book is based on my medical history-making recovery from blindness caused by a benign but life-threatening brain tumor. I knew how to save myself due to what I'd learned over the years at work, the help of naturopaths, and GOD's blessings. It was painfully obvious that the average person could not have known what I did about healing, so I wrote the book to inform them of several things that they need to know.

Yocheved Golani

Certified Health Information Management professional, medical research editor, medical and mental health journalist (https://www.e-counseling.com/author/yocheved), and life coach.

Want to cope with medical and/or mental health problems, including the expenses for your care? Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

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Want to COPE with Medical and/or Mental Health Problems, even the Loneliness Involved?

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1 Cheshvan, 5779

It's the beginning of Cheshvan, the Jewish month following all the new year holidays. One of the sad facts about Cheshvan is that it lacks holidays. It's a lonely month.

Loneliness seems to be a BIG topic these days. 

This headline 

Loneliness emerging public health threat...   

describes the problem.

One of the realities of dealing with an illness is the loneliness that goes with the hard work, the need to rest, the lack of visitors you hoped would arrive, and so much more.

There's a book that addresses the issue of loneliness, among other relevant topics for people facing medical challenges. 

The bonus is that it helps readers to get their grins back! And the text is designed to be shared with medical plus mental health professionals, loved ones, and/or friends.

That's one quick way to end the loneliness of being sick!

Be sure to read the Global Resources section. 

It has information to lower the expenses for your care!

Want to cope with medical and/or mental health problems, including the expenses for your care? Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

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Replace the emptiness with UPBEAT ideas.

What to do When Narcissists Prey on People at Large, Including YOU!

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30 Tishrei, 5779

Narcissists are a perplexing, painful topic. They are me-oriented people who do not hesitate to harm someone in order to elevate themselves. Worse, they lie and confuse their victims by misrepresenting facts and intentions. 

There's one specific sort of personality on which narcissists prey most often and with special vigor: Empaths.

Empaths are highly intuitive people with finely tuned sensitivities to the people and environment about them. Giving, altruistic, and sometimes naive, empaths can be helpful to a fault: theirs. They give too much, wearing themselves out. Empaths need to focus on boundaries, limits that protect their inner and outer health.

Narcissists tend to abuse the giving nature of empathic people, taking advantage of their time, focus, and energy. Sometimes they steal items or damage reputations, too. It's an expression of the narcissist's  manipulative "Me, me, me" mindset.

Want to end the problem, or at least to minimize it?

I recommend that you read 

The book is filled with proven strategies for protecting yourself from unusually selfish people, narcissists included, even if you're not an empath.

As Dr. Orloff writes in her book-related blog, "In my book The Empath’s Survival Guide I discuss that empaths must strike a balance of energy going out and energy coming in. Sensitive people have such big hearts that they often err on the side of giving too much to friends, family, spouses, and children. This wears you out.

Read about more tips for giving an receiving HERE."

Back to my book review: A comforting and easy to understand book without psychological jargon, The Empath’s Survival Guide  can educate the average reader into understanding what and why some perplexing things are going on. The book holds can-do self-protection strategies. 

There's another bonus to the book: It holds insights into the nature of being an empath. Such people have sensitivities that are a bit different from the norm. Noise, physical proximity (how closely you're sitting, standing or sleeping near someone), social interactions and other things tend to drain an empath's energy, leaving the empath feeling unhappy or irritated. The Empath’s Survival Guide offers ideas on how to de-stress, how to prevent stress, and how to finesse stress when you're stuck in some situation or other.

There's an upside to being empathic, too: Empaths are far more aware of various realities than most people would be. Empaths know someone's mood before encountering them or soon after sharing face time with crowds or individuals. That lets them interact with people in some highly powerful, productive ways.

There's more to know about being an empath, and much to look forward to by having the gift of empathic insight. You'll learn about that in the book.

I've reviewed Dr. Orloff's books for years, and recommend them highly. 

If a narcissist is bothering you, read The Empath’s Survival Guide.

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Some Rumors Result in Positive Interactions

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25 Tishrei, 5779

Mainstream news media is far too often preoccupied with rumors and innuendos that only hurt people even though they're innocent of wrongdoing. Read on for a story about a rumor that turned out to be true and to the believer's benefit!

Here's a sample of some real-time interaction with someone who learned of the EMPOWER Yourself book by having heard of my miraculous recovery, then finding me on a facebook forum for meningioma sufferers (the event was about a rumor that went in a positive direction):

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Question for the PC/CPA veterans: If you have lasting deficits from your treatment, are they consistent with what you were warned could be the risks posed by treatment?

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Yocheved Golani YES. I was warned that I'd have double vision IF I stopped being blind, and possibly trigeminal nerve issues. I've ended one problem and the other is still resolving. I take physical therapy classes once weekly to minimize balance issues due to the decreasing double vision.

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 You have the most amazing narrative of healing and resilience!

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 My emerging sense of what the consulting doctors could do is to be comprehensive in the scope of warnings/disclosures, be clear about things that while possible are unusual/remote risks, tell us if there will be reason to hope for progress and what sup…See More

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 Yocheved it strikes me that you seemed so medically literate before your diagnosis/crisis. You have a real command of narrative, and would have great advice for how to proceed with developing a PC/CPA-targeted summary for new patients to work with? Ideas welcome! I'd love to pull together a few information resources (the "not benign" draft letter for anyone wanting to appeal for research funding, and a "briefing" for new PC/CPA patients on questions/considerations to help get the most out of their medical appointments are just concepts right now, but gathering ideas. I've got about 6 months before we sell our house and move, and I thought I might work on a few rainy day projects along these lines while I can. Next year, might be less available.

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Yocheved Golani I've been a Health Information Management professional for decades and poured the healing information I knew into the EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge print and E- book http://tinyurl.com/mycrisis-book - stuff that laypeople would never guess could exist. 

It's beyond sad that the medical world is not prepared to share significant amounts of healing information with patients. I've lost count of how many doctors from around the world have interviewed me (face to face!) so they could learn the techniques that I used - allegedly to help their patients. I'm not aware that any of those professionals are recommending what worked for me, though NORA of course, has been recommending their vision-repair knowledge since day 1 of its existence. https://noravisionrehab.org/

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