Living with a Chronic, Debilitating or Terminal Illness

Meaningful mind training and embodied presence, without sugar coated unrealistic expectations.

Navigating Life with Chronic or Terminal Illness with

a Mindful and Compassionate Approach

Grief, stress and emotional burden of living with an illness are real. Here, we approach these as normal responses and focus on ways to balance life in the best ways possible, for you. Learn how to support yourself during your chronic illness or terminal illness, with a mindful and compassionate lens. We attend to the new norms of living. emotional well being, mind training, based on researched and studied methods rooted in wisdom traditions.

Support for all health conditions, including chronic illness/conditions, terminal illness, challenging health conditions that impact the patient and/or their family members and caregivers.

Navigating Living with Illness

with Mindfulness and Compassion

Our bodies continuously change from the moment that we are born. Chronic or terminal illnesses, at any age, disrupt the cycle of expected aging and add extra burden to our bodies, emotions and mental state. Being with the conditions due to illness have real impact, in our own lives, relationships with others, grieving what once was, perhaps even dreams unfulfilled.

If we pause to become mindfully aware, we may notice that we may be reacting to our illness in ways that are most likely aligned with how we have been dealing with other life stressors. The impact of illness may amplify everything further. Mindfulness and Compassion may not cure our illness; however, they will change our relationship to our illness, our bodies suffering through illness, as we bring in kind and loving awareness to be with what is.

Children and Illness

Supporting Children Living with Illness with Mindfulness

Coping and Thriving in New Light

Let’s resource your child to live as fully as possible with a life impacting illness. What is the most important to your child during their illness? Your child and you know this better than anyone else. These will include being loved, cared for and feeling safe, social connections, a sense of some normalcy no matter the situation. Your child will also benefit from self-kindness and self-compassion, managing difficult emotions, coming to terms with the current limitations with a balance and acceptance, while continuing the sense of joy children inheritantly have. This is where we will start and fine tune to your child’s and your family’s individual needs. Please reach out for a private consultation.

FOR CAREGIVING PARENTS

CAREGIVING FOR CHILDREN WITH ILLNESSES

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS TO SUPPORT PARENTS

Caregiving for children of any age with life debilitating illnesses is a multi dimensional complex life event. Extra care and consulting is available on a 1:1 basis to parents to support them through the caregiving burdens and the best ways to be there for their child.

GETTING STARTED:

As step 1, please reach out: click HERE to EMAIL.

Mindfulness and Illness

For Your Organization or Group

We can curate a solution that meets your group, association or organization’s needs in the most meaningful way. These include webinars, drop in practice sessions, lunch and learns, or shorter training curriculums. We can focus on stress management, cultivating resilience, turning towards acceptance and engage in guided practices that can be used in your daily life. Please reach out and let’s determine together.

TRAINING

Live Online Courses are available during select times of the year or they can be curated for your group. Take a look:

Reclaiming Your Power No Matter Life’s Challenges

WHILE LIVING WITH ILLNESS OR CAREGIVING

Learn How to Navigate & Support Emotional Well-Being, Manage Stress and Reduce Burnout.

Backed by research and science.

No sugar coating and no unrealistic positive psychology. This is the real deal of being with what is. Taught by experienced teacher living with illness and caregiving for a loved one.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for Illness and Caregiving

Modified MBSR for Living with Illness and Caregiving Course

Gold standard for learning to practice mindfulness for everyday stressors, MBSR course was originally created by Jon Kabat Zinn at UMASS Medical Center pain clinic to give extra resources to patients with chronic pain and illnesses, and symptoms, which modern medicine could not alleviate. MBSR is evidence based and widely studied, with positive improvements. It is still the most widely used and researched curriculum. As your instructor,

I am certified to teach MBSR through Brown University and trained at UMASS Center for Mindfulness where MBSR started (before teacher traning moved over to Brown). I also live with chronic illness, have been a caregiver to family members with different illnesses. It is my honor to serve and be with you as we move through the path of being with illness, with mindfulness and heartfulness.

Individual, 1:1, coaching and consulting sessions are available year round.

Courses are offered during select times of the year.

If you are in need of a particular training and it is not currently listed on the schedule, feel free to write to us with your special request for yourself and/or your organization/community. Only valid requests will be answered. Contact us with your support, training, event request.

If you are living with a life changing illness and would like to participate in future classes, please fill out the form below.

On Mindfulness and Illness:

From a Place of Bearing Witness to Illness