» patient journal http://blog.caringbridge.org Thu, 16 May 2013 19:14:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 How to decide what to share in your health journal http://blog.caringbridge.org/how-to-decide-what-you-want-to-share-in-your-health-journal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-decide-what-you-want-to-share-in-your-health-journal http://blog.caringbridge.org/how-to-decide-what-you-want-to-share-in-your-health-journal/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:26:16 +0000 Nell Kauls http://blog.caringbridge.org/?p=419 Many people keep a journal, a place where they can write down everything from daily events to their innermost thoughts and feelings. It can be a very personal, even therapeutic exercise, especially when the writer is experiencing a health journey, or is a caretaker helping a friend or family member cope with a variety of health challenges. Sona Mehring, founder and CEO of CaringBridge, has unique perspective on this topic, since one of the many uses of the social media sites sponsored by CaringBridge is to provide a platform for personal health journals about your unique experiences of coping with [...]

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]]> http://blog.caringbridge.org/how-to-decide-what-you-want-to-share-in-your-health-journal/feed/ 1 The gift of love and connection http://blog.caringbridge.org/the-gift-of-love-and-connection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-gift-of-love-and-connection http://blog.caringbridge.org/the-gift-of-love-and-connection/#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2012 02:29:12 +0000 Beth Keathley http://blog.devsvd.cbeagan.org/?p=36 The greatest confirmation of wealth in our lives is to love and be loved. No matter what our circumstances, love is the most valuable gift you can ever hope to give or receive. Through a totally unexpected twist of fate, a wonderful friend introduced me to CaringBridge, an emotional lifeline that connects me to a heartfelt community of personal cheerleaders and creates a two-way flow of love. I hope to be a “wonderful friend” to you and others by sharing my story. My future, suddenly untracked In November 2010, I was in nursing school, aspiring to care for oncology patients [...]

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]]> http://blog.caringbridge.org/the-gift-of-love-and-connection/feed/ 5 Stories of illness and the capacity to empower, inspire, and heal http://blog.caringbridge.org/stories-of-illness-and-the-capacity-to-empower-inspire-and-heal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stories-of-illness-and-the-capacity-to-empower-inspire-and-heal http://blog.caringbridge.org/stories-of-illness-and-the-capacity-to-empower-inspire-and-heal/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 02:57:50 +0000 Darci Schummer http://blog.devsvd.cbeagan.org/?p=51 I am a fiction writer and educator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I teach at the Loft Literary Center, a nonprofit organization offering writing classes. I first became interested in the topic of healing when I heard an interview with Siddhartha Mukherjee. He commented on the relationship between narrative and illness. In his book The Emperor of All Maladies, he writes, “A patient, long before he becomes the subject of medical scrutiny, is, at first, simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering—a traveler who has visited the kingdom of the ill.” Dealing with health conditions is often compared to a [...]

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