Today I speak with Erin Harrell , who is a mental health counselor and specializes on taking care of caregivers of elders and people that are dying which is such important work.
I love this conversation so much because it becomes clear how a challenging situation is not all bad but can be an powerful opportunity and invitation for personal growth.
Because when we heal ourselves we heal the world. Join me in making a difference, one hiply moment at a time.
Hiply is not just positivity but also recognizing the human condition in all of us. It recognizes all the feelings.
We talk about catching the Hiply energy, finding the life force, to find the inner peace, being in the reflective and awareness place and that alone is cause for celebration.
Erin has tips on how to work through tarry situations, set boundaries, and come up with a simple phrase to repeat to deescalate, to recognize where they come from, validate their feelings and restate the boundary.
What lights her up is to help caregivers talk about and have awareness about being in the world with their own value system.
Time Stamps
4:00 Things are workable, allowing for flexibility to figure things out, make it workable (from Buddhism)
5:10 For care givers that notion of what they should be doing or what they thought it should be like, that bar of judgment and critiquing makes it worse.
6:12 I like to use the word neutrality a lot, let's just try neutral. What would it take to get to that place of balance.
9:00 The inner peace self has that playful creative energy to it.
15:05 Erin's course for care givers helps them have a larger emotional vocabulary and encourage mindful awareness and use that when the irritation rises.
16:12And works with triggers and better communication skills.
18:36 Repeat the same phrase to help enforce the boundary and validate the others feeling as well.
21:00 Caregiving is an intense opportunity for personal growth. It brings up the big question of what are we doing here.
23:00 Type one and type two fun, four parts that influence your happiness. Sometimes we have to feel bad for a bit to have the atmosphere of growth. Challenges have meaning.
28:00 expanding our perspective, can be so helpful. increasing our connection between physical awareness and the thoughts. Get curious.
Resources:
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