Uplifting Insights & Life-Balance Tools

August 2016

Greetings from summer in Colorado! Welcome back to Sip of Soup, my free monthly eSip offering a taste of insight and lessons to help you keep caring while living a more balanced life.

Positively Yours,

Positivity Power

Through my work, I am so blessed to connect with other like-minded individuals and organizations who feel the same way I do about nurses and all caregivers - that they are the angels on God's green earth. That is why I am so pleased (well downright giddy) to announce an amazing partnership with Medline through their "The Voices of Healthcare" series.

In this first piece, I discuss "Three Reasons to Make Time for Self-Care"

with Medline Chief Nursing Officer Martie Moore (one of those like-minded individuals I mentioned above).

Lessons from LeAnn

As kids (and some grownups) head back to school and routines change again, I hear people saying, "Now I'll have time for_____." (fill in the blank)

Lack of enough time is said to be the number one stressor for people. How is it possible that with so much technology and so many time-saving devices at our fingertips, we often feel more stressed, more overwhelmed, less in control and less able to get it all done? We have lots of gadgets, appliances and technologies to help our tasks go more quickly, promising that then we'll have time to do the things we love. But, do we? Or are we going faster and faster and faster, and farther and farther and farther away from taking time to care for ourselves.

Sometimes it is easier if we start in smaller more manageable ways. So take 15 minutes to go for your walk, meditate, or write in your journal. Dance with someone you love, laugh until you leak. Breathe. And remember, nobody can take better care of you than YOU.

In This Issue

Positivity Power

Lessons from LeAnn

Sip du Jour

About LeAnn Thieman

Sip du Jour

A Healthy Quote:

"Caring for myself in not self indulgent; it is self preservation."

- Andre Lorde

Small changes in caregivers' daily lives are making huge impacts for hospitals and healthcare systems. Learn more about the movement of SelfCare for HealthCare.

About LeAnn Thieman

Best-Selling Author, Hall of Fame Speaker, and Nurse.

Co-Author: Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul, and 11 other Chicken Soup for the Soul titles.

Her book Balancing Life in Your "War Zones" shares lessons from her Vietnam Orphan Airlift adventure. Her latest book and initiative is SelfCare for HealthCare™

: Your Guide to Physical, Mental & Spiritual Health.

To see past eSips on balancing life and living priorities: