As healthcare professionals, our care for people extends beyond the individual patient sitting before us. This is particularly true when treating patients undergoing cognitive decline who rely heavily on caregivers around them for support. Family caregivers often face substantial challenges adjusting to a new role managing the health of their loved one. So, what canContinue reading “Beyond the Patient: How Mindfulness can be Supportive to Patient Caregivers”
Monthly Archives: September 2020
Loving Kindness Meditation: building a stronger sense of self and fighting emotional fatigue
The concept of “self” is critical to our wellbeing. We feel it when we are not truly ourselves, we’re off somehow. I recognize that feeling in myself when I’ve become pre-occupied with upcoming project deadlines or when I stop paying as much attention to my true interests and needs. And I think there’s an importantContinue reading “Loving Kindness Meditation: building a stronger sense of self and fighting emotional fatigue”
Mindfulness and Grief
Mindfulness accepts some degree of suffering as part of the human condition. Mindfulness-based approaches have shown efficacy in depression, anxiety, and trauma. For bereaved patients with similar symptoms, could it also help them cope with their loss? A study by Thieleman et al. done in 2014 examined such an approach in approximately 40 bereaved participants,Continue reading “Mindfulness and Grief”
The Mindful Medical Learner 