Posts Tagged "transition"

Moving and Managing Change

Posted by on Jun 5, 2011 in Life Lessons | 0 comments

I’ve been celebrating significant family events the past few weeks, a baptism, graduation and wedding just this weekend.  As spring rolls into early summer I’m also surrounded by boxes as we pack up our belongings and prepare to move into another house.  I’ve been thinking and feeling my way though all the changes in my life and I realized that this house we’ve lived in for 17 years no longer feels like our home.  My husband and I have been feeling the effects of transition as we send extra furniture and clothes to charitable organizations and family members. We had a chance to reflect on how much we enjoyed giving useful items to family members or those...

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Managing Change and Transition

Posted by on Feb 1, 2011 in Life Lessons | 0 comments

From Personal to Organizational I thought I was handling the loss of my friend in a very mature and healthy way but as I suffered with stomach pain and loss of sleep I began to rethink my reality.  I shared my thoughts with a friend of mine when I told her “I realized I wasn’t managing so well when I came home and immediately ordered pizza for supper,”  and all this was happening during my starting the new Weight Watchers program!  Good grief, what was I thinking?  Maybe managing transition around grief and loss isn’t so easy even if you’re an experienced health care professional and you’ve had lots of personal experience. I know the intellectual steps...

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Caring for our Aging Parents

Posted by on Aug 24, 2009 in Healing | 0 comments

As I read the email from my dear friend in Canada I wish I was there in person to support her as I tell her we’ve all had experience with helping our parents through illness, transition and even endings.   I tell her it doesn’t matter that we are nurses or that we have experience in healthcare or working with elders because this is about our “heart.”  We are at that point in our lives where we are concerned about our parent’s health, their ability to recover from illness or the fact that they need different living arrangements.  It doesn’t necessarily happen all at once, it may happen gradually and all of a sudden you worry about leaving them alone,...

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