Can-do Emotional Strength Lessons: The Lesson Plan

B'SD

5 Kislev, 5778

I've done life-coaching work with ill people since recovering from my medical setbacks (I earned my counseling credentials before and after life-saving surgery). 

We focus on the choices that my clients can make, the resources available to them, and their need to bolster a sense of courage.

They tend to do quite well, achieving newly identified goals and increased inner strength before we complete our 6 meetings.

As I interact with people in my coaching efforts, public speaking engagements and private encounters over the years, however, I've realized that many people simply do not know how to feel courageous. 

Basic concepts about 

how to develop courage

 are missing 

from pubic awareness.

Yes, clergy of various faiths teach about emotional and spiritual strength, but the lessons are not helping all that many people. The opioid crisis around the world illustrates the reality: People find it hard or impossible to deal with emotional turmoil and physical pain.

There are can-do solutions for the average person. I've written about that before. 

Nobody has to be born impervious to unhappiness to overcome it.

I'm preparing a proposal to teach emotional fortitude in schools, business sites and other venues, in order to repair the problem as much as I can. My goal is that people will learn how to increase their emotional strength in innovative, user-friendly ways.

I welcome your thoughts about that.

What do YOU believe 
that people need to learn 

in order to be strong?

And HOW do you believe 
that courage can be taught?

You can share your ideas in the "comment" icon below this blogpost, or send them to me via giveretgolani@gmail.com.

Go ahead, grab some paper, 
jot down your ideas and 
please share them with me. 

TIA!

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 heart and mind with self-control and fortitude.

Who Can Help with Health Crisis Issues?

B'SD

22 Tevet 5770

Readers, it literally brings tears to my eyes when I receive touching messages about how my manuscript helps people in expected, and in unexpected, ways.

Here's an E-mail message that arrived to my monitor last night:

"I recently came across your

new workbook and although I have

not read through it completely,

it looks like a wonderful tribute

and very useful resource.

I have come across MANY coaches,

worldwide, who are working as

Health Coaches and only two

who work with health crisis issues,

you and one other!

I am in the process of developing

a systematic approach to dealing

with those precious souls

who are afflicted so severely

with the intention of focusing

my Coaching talents in this area.

Could you please direct me to

the work of others who Coach

in this area?

Have you any pearls of wisdom for me?

Would you be interested in assisting me

in my thinking as my approach

takes shape...?

Thanks - Chris Boyd

Man Alive Foundation: Cape Town S. Africa"

Here's my reply to Chris. It came from the depths of my heart:

Thank you for contacting me, Chris.

The only pearls of wisdom

I can share are:

"1. The supply of health-crisis coaches

depends on people with sharp personal

insight, knowing from the gut what the

fear, pain and obstacles can be and

personal experience at solving

those problems. It's not a field for

theories/speculation.

2. The dread that the average person has

of death and illness pretty much

limits the possibilities for studying

the discipline of health coaching.

You necessarily deal with

death and dying issues,

prohibitive expenses,

gut-wrenching decisions,

heartache and other forms of pain.

It takes nerves of steel and

gentle hearts to study and coach,

or to experience all that.

And a LOT of inner work.

We can keep a dialogue going if you wish."

What do YOU think of the above exchange, readers?

Bear in mind that coaching is designed for short-term relationships that focus on defining/setting goals and on making a better use of time, rather than on long-term situations and life/death issues that generally leave far too little time for reflection, research and budgetary boosts (financial crises abound with medical issues).

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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

Lifesaving, Emotionally Rewarding, Funny & Helpful from Cover to Cover!

B'SD


12 Tishrei 5770



When my Self-Help Coaching clients or fans of my book ask me how I helped myself to recover from devastating medical problems, and what YOU need to do to cope with your medical situation, I reply:

"I look at what's going right, NOT at what's going wrong with a given situation. I do the same with clients of my Self-Help Coaching services. My brain - and yours - already knows what went kerflooey. No reminders are necessary. By reassessing the situation, we seek out what works as a coping mechanism, then build on that. Capitalizing on and expanding existing skills and insights builds resilience, teaching you how to be strong and how to expand strengths you already have."

Sounds kind of dull, hmmm? The dancing, traveling, gardening, laughing, sports, hobbies

and strength-building I do and advocate sure aren't.

Want to read a fun book that teaches you all that and never gets tired of repeating the lesson?

AND can save you lots of money with the Global Resources section in the back?


Be sure to read

Dr. Judith Guedalia Chief Medical Psychologist ER Trauma Shaare Zedek Medical Center calls the book "Lifesaving, emotionally rewarding, funny & helpful."

Guess what you can gain
after reading
"It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To:
EMPOWER Yourself to
Cope with a Medical Challenge"?

Focused phone or E-mail assistance
with my Self-Help Coaching for
People Facing Illness.

Scroll way down this blog to see the explanation on that.

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. And get the coaching you need.

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

Here's How to Dry Your Tears.

B'SD

22 Tamuz 5769

Today I'm giving a lecture, in a healing center, on how to cope with medical crises.

Experts consult with me! You can too.

Contact Giveret Golani Recovery Coaching.

You'll feel better for it.

Click on I'm Buying "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."

Dry those tears.

Learn to smile again.

Regain your sense of dignity.

To your emotional, physical, and spiritual health,

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

How to Believe in Yourself

B'SD

29 Mar-Cheshvan 5769


In today's post I am fulfilling a promise to a dear friend. Here we go:

A significant part of my technique in coping with adversity is the nurturing of my sense of self. It is the key to anyone's ability to cope.

"I am."

Those are words I use to grasp the solution to any problem I face.

I am all the insights, experiences, victories and failures gained and experienced in my brief existence. Individually, they represent isolated segments of my reality. As a whole, they comprise my mindset, my worldview. This is true of you, too.

In my Self-Help Coaching practice, I emphasize that everyone needs (as in NEEDS) a conscious, accurate awareness of their core self. And everyone needs to groom their sense of self, to make it ever-better. Bumbling along with the rest of society, or with one's group of friends and acquaintances, perhaps with your relatives, is heart- and mind-numbing. The decision to NOT engage in critical thinking skills cannot advance growth in a human soul!

Conforming in order to be part of a group is fine and normal, to a degree. We call that "Cooperation." But to be in lock-step mimicry of what everyone around you is doing is to destroy your sense of "I." Nobody can keep up with the latest styles, be they food, fashion, physique or anything else. That is, they can't unless they seek to enslave themselves to fleeting whims.

Now, what if you are experiencing a health issue (medical or mental/emotional)?

Stuff most people don't understand?

As we face hardships that others do not experience, we learn life lessons about coping mechanisms that work. We learn about strategies that do not benefit us. We make future choices based on that.

Thinking and functioning on that level of awareness leads to spiritual and intellectual growth: the growing sense of "Hey, I can do this, that, the other. And I sure don't need to take the options that hurt me in the past." It allows us to behave with courage, generosity and compassion.

Such thinking makes you immune to superficial standards of "worth" based on appearances, wealth, fleeting standards of popular entertainment and value; the mental junk that wears you down. External tastes come and go. It is the integrity of the personality that stands the test of time.

Integrity enables you to help people in your personal world: friends, family, business associates. YOURSELF.

Jealousy, anger, frustration, confusion; they fall to the wayside. With enough practice of your ennobling personality traits, you begin to forget to think in a jealous, angry, frustrated or confused manner. You become permanently stable. You are not beholden to others for a sense of self-worth.

Your permanent sense of I-dentity leaves you peaceful, friendly, and adapative to challenges as they arise. It is a blessing. And the blessing grows with your personal practice of those uplifting characteristics. It lets you appreciate the One Above, too. That sense of appreciation becomes part of an empowering cycle.

Want more help to grasp the principles described above?

BUY MY BOOK and read what

mental health therapists recommend

to people with a wide variety of

medical and mental/emotional ailments.

I wrote it to help people who need it.

Ah, one more thought: When I do Self-Help Coaching, I ask my clients lots of questions. Those questions provoke introspection. That leads to insights and solutions: the answers my clients seek. I do this because I KNOW: your answers lie within you. I'm willing to help you to find them.

You Need to Believe in Yourself. After a Fall, You CAN Get up Again. Watch:

Do 5 Things to Stay Sane

B'SD

24 Tishrei 5769


A nifty TIMES Online article explains 5 things you can do to stay sane.

Sunuvagun if my book lists those same ideas and more! And I wrote it long before that article went live ;^ )

Folks, I know what I'm talking (and writing) about when I teach you how to cope with the stresses of illness.

BUY MY BOOK TODAY. Feel better fast.

To your good health,

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

Tech Talk at the Speed of Tachyons!

6 Tishrei 5768

Want to calm down after receiving a frightening medical diagnosis? Want to cope with the news to the best of your ability? Read on!

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Ever heard of those hard-to-photograph energy particles called Tachyons? Maybe you'll recall hearing about them in association with the String Theory gaining popularity in the science and real worlds. Well, the news about "It's MY Crisis!" is apparently zipping around the world and cyberspace at warp speed. Tachyons seem to be taking the news all over the place ;^ )

Authors need to promote their books and I've been busy selling mine. I touch base with radio show hosts, journalists, and lots of other people, worldwide, as I strive to get the word out about my psyche-saving book. One technique I use is simple E-mail. Another is fax. Posting publicity materials in high-visibility areas in my immediate locale helps, too.

Recipients of my E-mailed and faxed Media Release announcement about the book's publication have obviously been "forwarding" the message around cyberspace and real space. I've been receiving kudos from people I do and do not know. And book sales are going up with all the attention paid to my user-friendly message.

Here are some of the reactions I'm getting from around the wide, wide world:

Way to go!

- Mike Barnett

The book and your career sound remarkable, simply amazing. I will pass on this book's availability, now that it is out. It sounds so important! I will recommend it and recommend you as a life coach. Wonderful that you do such a service!

- Chana Tova Sokol

Sounds like another winner, YG! Should hit the NYT top ten pretty soon.

- Al Hattal http://www.biz2bizwriter.com/about.htm

Yiyasher KokhaKhaiKH for this important book. May it have the great success it deserves. I wish I were still reviewing for Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. We were both miraculously saved for a purpose.

- Isaac Mozeson, author of Origin of Speeches

Gosh, everyone I know says 'I shoulda' or 'I wish I had...' after they go through something big. You did it! You wrote a book that helps people to cope! It's amazing.

- Marla Braun

Wishing you hatzlocha (success) on your book and blessings for a sweet New Year filled with all good things.

-S. Greenbaum, creator of Partners in Kindness

Readers are learning to cope better with medical crises by reading my book. Buy your copy today, and consider buying one for someone else who needs it. All the information you need is on the left-hand margin and in previous posts to this blog.

To Your Good Health, Yocheved

The Book is Being Prepared for Sale as You Read this Update ;^ )

18 Av 5767, August 2 2007

It's a wonderful day in my writing life! Booklocker's staff is getting my book ready for international distribution as you read these words. And while your eyes are here, I want to add a BIG message of thanks to my wonderful, compassionate, intelligent and completely full of integrity publishers, Angela and Richard Hoy.

As soon as the URL for online purchases is ready, I will post it here. I will include information for bulk purchases at discounted prices.

That purchase information should make life simpler for business owners desiring to sell my book to clients. Several business owners have already contacted me to request such information. Yep, word is out around the world that "It's MY Crisis!" is a wonderful, inspiring read.

Expect to read my MEDIA RELEASE at this blog soon. I plan to send it to key people throughout broadcast and print media plus online news resources, and of course to the publishing, medical and mental health industries. A MEDIA RELEASE, by the way, is different from a press release. It is designed to be used by Internet sites, broadcast and print media, as well as by laypersons interested in receiving the information.

Information about the Life Coaching side of my life will be included with that Media Release and my forthcoming book.

Best of health to you and every blessing for goodness in your life,

Yojeved/Yocheved (see the left-hand margin for the reason why I spell my name two ways)

People Around the World Want Information From My Book! I Can Share it on Airwaves in Print and Online.

July 3, 17 Tamuz 5767


Soon after word was out in 2006 that I'd begun writing my book, people began contacting me to learn about its content. The phenomenon continues until today. These folks want to prolong or to save someone's life and the quality of that life.

A medical crisis affects everyone in the family, as well as the friends and colleagues of the affected individual.

I've been contacted by all kinds of people urgently seeking the coping skills information and the contact information for therapists with cutting-edge treatments/healing therapies that are in my book. Those seekers of information hail from the UK, Europe, the USA and Middle East. They are family, friends and other acquaintances of the ill person they wish to help.

The pace has increased since I gave my speech in Jerusalem. A man wants to save someone with a brain tumor in Belgrade, an American woman wants to find out new ways to treat breast cancer, someone in South Africa needs to know about above-average help for someone with ADD, an Irish lass wants to learn about still another form of rescue. I've even been asked to use my own Life Coaching skills on someone suffering mental anguish and I'm not even a therapist. That person heard about me from someone associated with my Life Coaching course, then remembered hearing about me after my recent speech in Jerusalem.

I welcome book store owners to contact me to speak about my book in their shops. Media people can schedule interviews with me. All you have to do is to send a message to giveretgolani@gmail.com.

Book reviews are already scheduled to appear in Israeli magazines and US newspapers.

Let your readers, listeners and viewers learn how to dry their tears and to cope better with a medical crisis. Contact me to schedule an interview appointment. I look forward to hearing from you!

If you wish to receive a Media Release with my publisher's information and more exciting news from me, let me know at giveretgolani@gmail.com.

Be Sure to Hear Me Speak Before a Live Audience on June 28!

June 22, 6 Tamuz 5767

I'm the first speaker up to the microphone at next Thursday's Natural Healing Conference in Jerusalem's OU Center. Look at the schedule below to see the plan for the day:

Natural Healing Conference – June 28th,2007


10:30 – Introduction – The Challenge of Healing


11:15 Am Yocheved Golani- 'Recreate Your Future: The Secret to Coping with a Medical Crisis'. The remarkable story of a woman who has overcome 5 brain tumors through natural healing


12:30 PM. - Mrs. Yachad Shifman "Psych-K: Envision your Life exactly the way you want"

1:45 PM – Shoshanna Harrari– New Day Cleanse Program – The missing link to healing


3:30 PM – Chaninat'shem Gordon – 'My Family's Journey to raw food and healthy lifestyle'. Tips on how to help your children and family eat healthier and be healthier


4:15 PM – Micah Harrari–'The life is in the Blood' – Using Darkfield Live Blood Analysis for diagnosis and healing.


5:00 Dr Yisrael Yaffa – Natural Hormone Therapy


6: - 6:30 PM - Dinner break


6:30 – 7:30 screening of movie – Supersize Me