How to Care For Yourself When Caring For Others
As a caregiver, you spend most of your time thinking of and acting for others. This makes it hard to shift the focus back onto you. It can even feel…
Conquering Chronic Pain: Self-care plus conventional treatment helps patients relieve or prevent chronic pain
Getting through the workday used to take all of Olivia Seonbuchner’s energy and willpower. For about 19 months, the 25-year-old would go home and get into bed with a heating…
Self-Care Resource for Military Caregivers and Families
Resource Roundup- For Patients Dr. Jonas guided the creation of “The Caregivers Companion: Self-care for Health in Mind, Body and Spirit,” to provide a road map for military caregivers as…
You Already Know How to Do Whole Person Care
An excerpt from Healing and Cancer: A Guide to Whole Person Care If you've never (until reading Healing and Cancer) heard of the Personal Health Inventory (PHI) as a tool…
Whole Person Primary Care
Whole person primary care is just good medicine. It is person-centered, relationship-based care, and it takes into account the social, spiritual, emotional, and behavioral aspects of health as well as…
Whole Person Cancer Care
It is really a disease of people—whole people and their loved ones. And cancer affects not only the body but the mind and spirit as well. The effects of a…
Measurement in Whole Person Health Care
I recently had an interaction that surprised me. I was speaking with a health systems administrator who was interested in understanding the efficacy of the efforts his team was making…
Whole Person Care: A Path to Wellbeing
“I am too young to have all this pain and anxiety, doc. I used to be healthy. I was deployed to Afghanistan twice and could keep up with any of…
Clinician as Healer in Primary Care
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Cancer care for the whole person
Jenny Leyh is a survivor. At the age of just 33, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was also in her third trimester of pregnancy. Treatment left her depleted—not…