EvenMORE For You

Parables for Friday’s Meditation:

This week, I want to share a few insights I gathered—from my conversations with remarkable people over the years. Usually, the following day when I reflected on what I learned, or what someone might have been communicating beyond even what was said.

1. Create Your Own Environment – Don’t depend on others.

2. A single drop of ink can taint the clearest well. Hate, no matter how small, damages luminosity of the soul.

3. Who better knows clay? The geologist or the potter? Who better knows light? The physicist or the photographer? Different perspectives make for richer understanding. Detached knowing and engaged knowing are essential.

4. Be wary of anyone who is unwilling to learn, thinking they know because they’ve been there. Experience makes us brilliant, but when experience generalizes or makes assumptions it makes us fools.

5. Imitation is easy, and boring. Uniqueness and creativity are difficult because it requires you to own your gifts.

6. Many want to care, but they confuse it with wanting to be the only one cared for.

7. Meaning comes from the sensitivity of feeling in friction with the precision of thinking. Meaning is a mindful heart.

8. Emulating your leader, is not you. 

9. Growth and wisdom come from breaking patterns, not from being stuck in your ways. Breaking patterns is uncomfortable and liberating. 

10. We live in a multi-valued, rich and complex world. When we experience frustration, pain or anguish - it’s because our own model is impoverished. People with richer mental models see many options where impoverished models see very few.  Enrich your models and you enrich your life.

11. If you never have to clean up your own mess, you will never tap your potential. The way to be a super-human is to be super…human. Risk yourself, it’s the shortest distance to tapping your inner genius.

Have a great weekend.

You at the Center of Self Defense

Build Confidence with Ron Dukes

After dark, parking lots can feel creepy with shadows and limited visibility. Residential areas with streetlights that have fallen into disrepair and unlit properties can be very frightening. 

With the absence of bystanders everywhere and anywhere can feel like an opportunistic crime scene.

End-of-life caregivers who visit patients in their homes are all too familiar with some of these scary conditions. Earlier this year in EM4U we shared tips for staying safe when parking and entering a residence or care facility at night.

Reduce Situational Fear and Anxiety

Self defense is the topic of our September webinar presented by Self Defense Coach, Taekwondo Grand Master and Fitness Trainer Ron Dukes. Ron’s high-energy presentation will be informative and engaging covering and demonstrating three key topics:

• Situational Awareness
• What to Carry
• Basic Strikes

Ron also provides tips to help team members reduce their anxiety and fear when they’re alone in situations that feel scary. While being aware of potential threats, Ron shows how to build one’s confidence in handling potentially dangerous encounters and with situational awareness, avoiding threatening environments.

The goal? Being prepared for any possible threats to personal safety that come up while you’re on the job delivering end-of-life care to Crossroads patients.

To attend Ron Duke’s Self Defense Webinar, join a Teams meeting:
Thursday, September 12
9:30 A.M. CT/10:30 A.M. ET
4:00 P.M. CT/5:00 P.M. ET

Upcoming Webinar 

The Pathways Harnessing Inner Strength Webinar is Tuesday, August 27th at 10:30 A.M. ET, 9:30 A.M. CT.

To register for the webinar, visit this link.
A Zoom invitation will be sent prior to the webinar.

Missed a Webinar?

Click on a link to watch a recorded webinar.
April: Nomi Health Benefits. Download the PDF.
May: My Benefits Work.
June: Medicare Benefits Workshop.
July: Mindset Webinar. Passcode: k4M$8*at

Is it Hot in Here?

Menopause Part 2

Menopause is a natural biological process that can wreak havoc in a woman’s life. 100% of women will experience menopause if they live long enough. What can you do to prepare for this transition?

1. Talk to a menopause-educated doctor about hormone therapy. Visit www.menopause.org.

2. Be disciplined with your diet. Pay special attention to protein, fiber, and reduce added sugars. 

3. Lift heavy weights to build bone density. Women lose 10% of bone mass in the first five years after menopause due to the loss of estrogen. 

4. Use stress reduction tools like meditation, journaling, and regular exercise. Take time for yourself. 

5. Aim for 7 hours of sleep per night. Creating a sleep ritual can help you achieve quality sleep. 

6. Don’t compare yourself to others. Some women sail through menopause, no problem. Others struggle with frightening and painful symptoms, feeling ashamed and weak-willed. Menopause isn’t a moral issue.  

7. Perhaps most importantly, embrace this stage of life. You’ve earned it. There are so many wonderful things that come with getting older. 

Final thoughts:

• If you’re suffering from symptoms of menopause, talk to a trusted friend, your spouse, doctor, or therapist. There is help available.

• Educate yourself on what’s happening to your body. Dr. Mary Claire Haver, MD is one of my favorite menopause experts. 

• Develop a positive mindset towards this phase of life. Aging has its rewards – wisdom, strength, confidence.

• Share this information with other women. You might save them some frustration and fear that others have suffered. 

The transition to menopause can be scary. After all, it’s a new phase of life that has yet to be discovered. But armed with proper education, tools, and support, it could be the most exciting and empowering phase yet. Please know this: Menopause is inevitable, but suffering is optional.