Lower Your Medical Costs in 2 Simple Steps!

B'SD

25 Shvat 5770


Wondering what to do about headlines such as these?

Health Care Spending Keeps Climbing

BKLYN MAN CHARGED $100K

for 2-Day HOSP Stay

Here's a 2-Step Solution: 1) BUY It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 2) BENEFIT from the GLOBAL RESOURCES section in the back. It clues you in to affordable (sometimes FREE) sources of quality medication, medical appliances, medical transport, medical insurance, and even to organizations willing to pay some of your medical bills.

Two Steps to Affordable Health Care.

Isn't that easy?

You don't need politicians to solve your medical costs. They caused some of them. And it sure doesn't look as if they'll solve the problem soon!

Buy your copy of It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge TODAY!

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

Set that Medical Challenge to Music!

B'SD

24 Shvat 5770

I've been Tweeting messages about ideas in

and in this blog. Here they are:

Terrified of your medical situation? Calm down by seeing it as a game. Play to win your goals. Refuse to be frenzied.

Need solutions for Costly, Confusing & Complicated Medical Care? Treat yourself as your best friend. Stay on task.

List your needs & goals. Set priorities. Check off your to-do list as you accomplish them.

Nurture yourself with good food, good music, good reading, good vocabulary. Skip scary words. Speak reassuringly on purpose.

Laugh out loud. Share jokes, funny videos, stories and pleasant thoughts. Look back & appreciate your accomplishments.

Optimism can be self-taught. And it SAVES LIVES! Don't feel optimistic? Fake it until you do ;^ )

~*~

I suspect that my non-American readers
have not seen this video.
INSPIRATIONAL
is the only word I can say about it,
other than sighing deeply with admiration.

Re-read those Tweets above. Patrick Henry Hughes uses those ideas intuitively. They can be learned and they can take you far.

Consider setting your life, and that medical challenge, to music. Or a cause. Let me know how you grow.

Need to learn a bit more about how he (and I) approach life and its challenges?

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

Women in the USA & Receiving Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Can Have Housecleaning Help at NO CHARGE!

B'SD

21 Shvat 5770

Been working on my book trailer. WOW the agent who came across it likes my script! So do musicians. Keepin' the beat to healthier living… Now, on to the reason for this blogpost ;^ )

Cleaning for a Reason

If you know any woman currently undergoing Chemo for Breast cancer, please pass the word to her that there is a cleaning service that provides FREE housecleaning - 1 time per month for 4 months while she is in treatment: Cleaning for a Reason

All she has to do is sign up and have her doctor fax a note confirming the treatment. Cleaning for a Reason will have a participating maid service inher zip code area arrange for the service.

Please pass this information on to bless a woman going through Breast Cancer treatment. This organization serves the entire USA and currently has 547partners to help these women. It's our job to pass the word and let themknow that there are people out there that care. Be a blessing to someone andpass this information along.

Amy Tam-Liao
Community Organizer

Queens Community House

Pomonok Center 67-09

Kissena Blvd. Flushing, NY 11367

718-591-6060 phone

Readers across the world, I do my best to bring you such information. There's other valuable news about GLOBAL RESOURCES for free and low-cost help to see you through your medical crisis or that of a loved one in EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.





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

Peel that Potato Professionally! Minimize Hand Pain with this Technique!

B'SD

20 Shvat 5770

and its predecessor offer lots of tips about how to cope with physical and other limitations when you're ill. This blog offers more coping ideas.

Today's update is a video for simplifying kitchen tasks. Created by "Mary Ann" from the television show "Gilligan's Island," it could spare you from lots of hand pain when you want to peel potatoes.

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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

Hispanic Parents Need to Put an Accent on Pediatric Medical Care

B'SD


19 Shvat 5770



Johns Hopkins Childrens Organization has been broadcasting bad news for Hispanic children in the USA. Read:

Hispanic Children Rarely Get Top-Notch Care For Brain Tumors

&

Child Obesity Seen As Fueled By Spanish Language TV Ads

Parents, you love your children. Now you know that you need to advocate for them better than ever before.

Want to know about some terrific resources for kids with medical problems? Where to go and what to do if you're Latino and have Liver Disease? Tips for communicating better with medical professionals? READ EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.


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

If Drugs Don't Help Depressed People, What Does? Read On!

B'SD


18 Shvat 5770


The hero in my first novel teaches his colleagues that a person is "a work in progress." I use that phrase often in my coaching work. That helps my clients to put their stresses into some perspective.

"It's all good, and it's all a test," is nice phrase for someone not involved in wrestling with complicated issues. But it's no comfort to someone deep into despair.

Exercise and pets are proven methods for effectively improving low moods. Rewarding hobbies ease anxiety, too. Psychotropic drugs, however, do not seem to help people to leave depression behind them.

Newsweek magazine in the USA just put out an article entitled, "The Depressing News About Antidepressants: Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse."


US president Abraham Lincoln suffered from depression. He coped by honing his sense of humor. Once a lawyer, he'd managed his anger with clients and opponents by writing scathing letters that he never mailed. He expressed his anger on paper and kept the hot words to himself in a special drawer, never embittering anyone and never burning bridges. He was beloved by many people. He was a jokester and a compassionate man, despite his dour appearance (his features had been affected by a disease).

IMPORTANT UPDATE: See another point of view from psychiatrist Dr. A. Twerski. I deeply respect him and hope that his take on this issue can bring you more relief.

I pray that you'll find a solution to your depression. Make small, gradual steps to participating in life more and more. Do productive things that interest, amuse and please you. Music, writing, sculpture, painting, volunteer work, crafts, gardening, exercize, nature walks and other soothing activites are yours to indulge in. Look for outlets that will benefit you.

lists several "Suggested Reading" titles in the GLOBAL RESOURCES section. Many of them address depression and how to attain happiness with realistic methods.

Cry if you need to. And learn 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

Here's How to LOWER Israeli Hospital Costs (and those around the world)!

B'SD

17 Shvat 5770

Audience members who heard me speak at the Jan. 21 NEFESH ISRAEL convention of mental health practitioners in Jerusalem lingered so long after my presentation that I had to beg forgiveness for catching my ride home. Listeners commented on whom they know has been helped by my books and Self-Help coaching. They were wide-eyed with wonder at the cost-cutting and calming resources in my materials.

Here's news that my audience members and anybody else in Israel needs to know: Israel's newly higher hospitalization fees = unpublicized cut in the health budget. Read more at News » Gov't Raises Hospitalization Fees 5.6%

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That scenario and similar ones are happening on a global basis (Brooklyn Man Charged $100K for 2-Day Hospitalization!).

That's why I filled the GLOBAL RESOURCES section of E-book It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge and its print edition predecessor with information to offset such costs before they rose under your radar.

Need cost-cutting ideas to cope with YOUR medical situation or your loved one's, no matter where you live?

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