Coping with a chronic illness can be challenging. In this workshop we explore strategies we can use immediately to manage our illness by listening to the wisdom of our bodies, grieve the losses we experience when we obtain a physically limiting diagnosis, understand the impact of trauma on our physical symptoms, advocate for ourselves with the medical team, and explore alternative treatments. This helps us create life the best life possible with chronic illness so we can reach our goals and dreams.

It’s impossible to fully be prepared when a child receives a diagnosis of a chronic medical illness. Unless someone has lived the life, it’s hard for them to understand the exhaustion, frustration, fear, and grief that can arise when we see our children ill and are not being able to “make it all better.” In this workshop, we explore the ways to support both the parents and the children on this difficult journey. There is hope and you will leave the workshop with strategies to assist you to live life as a parent to a child with a chronic illness.

Past traumas can be the traumas we have personally endured and they can also be the generational traumas of our ancestors. The cells in our bodies carry trauma. We need strategies to address these traumas so they don’t fester and increase our physical limitations. In this workshop we explore the way that trauma negatively impacts our physical health. With this understanding, we explore various strategies that help us to process these traumas so that our bodies can release the traumas to increase our mental and physical health. We are not meant to be controlled by these past events. Let’s find the strategies that work best for you together. You are not alone.

Have you ever felt like you don’t have a life purpose because you have a chronic illness? If so, this is an important workshop for you. It’s easy to get caught up with going to medical appointments, taking medications, coping with side effects of medications, fighting with insurance companies, and not feeling well; we often begin to feel purpose-less. Research shows us that our physical symptoms decrease and we experience a better outcome with our illness when we have a life purpose. We explore strategies to help you to discover your purpose, develop a plan for how to pursue that purpose, and implement this plan even with a chronic illness. We need you and your light in this world!

Is it a struggle to not give in and give up when you are dealing with chronic illness and pain? If so, this is the workshop for you because identifying your “health why” can help you overcome exhaustion and frustration during the hard times. Together, we explore how a “health why” makes a difference in our mental and physical health, learn strategies to listen to our inner wisdom to find the “why” that is truly important for us (not the “why” we think we “should” use), and take a deep dive into how to connect to our “why” on a daily basis to strengthen our determination to live and thrive with our chronic illness.

If you have received a terminal diagnosis, you are likely thinking about a lot of “what ifs” or are spending energy every day to avoid the thoughts that arise in your mind about your death. People often say “don’t think like that” or “you are going to beat the odds” or other things that really don’t provide comfort. In this workshop, learn the strategies that can help you make the decisions that are best for you based on your needs and wants, maintain alignment with your beliefs, speak to others about your needs, decrease worry, and find alternative ways to enjoy the time you have left. You can have a death the way you have chosen it to be. A good death is possible.