Transitioning is hard; yet, so much of life is about facing changes and learning to adapt. My body is changing as I get older, my family life is changing as my children get older, and sometimes it feels strange and sad. I try to shift some of my anxiety to excitement and some of my frustration to acceptance and sometimes I am more successful than other times. I must keep adapting to change.
This chapter is the last chapter of my manuscript. It is on gratitude. I have a lot to be grateful for even though I feel like I am losing a part of myself as my children move on in life. I think of the 29 years I have spent being a mom and now that role is shifting. It isn't going away, but it is taking on a different hue. It's hard to explain. I am learning how to adapt to another change in my life. Gratitude is a great tool to have in our tool box of coping skills. It doesn't always make everything the way we wish it could be, but it helps to shift our perspective to help us see life in a way that helps us to adapt. I need a lot of help sometimes.
Carry On!
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Hope
Here we go with a chapter on HOPE. It is the second to last chapter.
Hope can be tricky sometimes. I recently read about the hope dilemma. One example is when I talk to a patient who has their sense of hope, a family member with their hope and idea of what kind of treatments the patient should have, and then the hospital staff has their own hope of what the patient can or should be doing. Not everyone has the same kind of hope in all circumstances. I have learned that I cannot give someone else my hope and expect it to become their own. We each have our own relationship with hope.
Hope can be a mystery for individuals whose hope is ebbing on one day and flowing another day, or many instances of ups and downs in the same day! We can hope for something that is unrealistic and then not feel anything when there is actually a good chance that things could turn out in our favor. What a dilemma?! What I do know is that hope is my "saving grace" (something to ponder). A little bit of hope can go a long way to help us endure. On any given day we could probably write a chapter on hope and it may very well be different from the day before, and slightly (or a lot) off from the reality of the day after. Hope is necessary for me to........Carry On!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7jPs-wKTuOuQW9XQjltbTk2a2M/edit?usp=sharing
Hope can be tricky sometimes. I recently read about the hope dilemma. One example is when I talk to a patient who has their sense of hope, a family member with their hope and idea of what kind of treatments the patient should have, and then the hospital staff has their own hope of what the patient can or should be doing. Not everyone has the same kind of hope in all circumstances. I have learned that I cannot give someone else my hope and expect it to become their own. We each have our own relationship with hope.
Hope can be a mystery for individuals whose hope is ebbing on one day and flowing another day, or many instances of ups and downs in the same day! We can hope for something that is unrealistic and then not feel anything when there is actually a good chance that things could turn out in our favor. What a dilemma?! What I do know is that hope is my "saving grace" (something to ponder). A little bit of hope can go a long way to help us endure. On any given day we could probably write a chapter on hope and it may very well be different from the day before, and slightly (or a lot) off from the reality of the day after. Hope is necessary for me to........Carry On!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7jPs-wKTuOuQW9XQjltbTk2a2M/edit?usp=sharing
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