Loving Myself Again (eBook)

Self-care from A-Z after a NICU stay

Leanne Rose Dorish (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
46 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-1-7772088-1-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Are you the parent of a NICU baby and feeling like you've lost yourself in the process?Frustrated that you get no time for yourself now that you're home with your baby?This short and easy-to-read guidebook will help you look at self-care and personal time in a different light. Using the tips in Loving Myself Again can shift your perspective on why you need to care for yourself and how to do it as a busy NICU graduate parent.When you're juggling parenting duties, regular chores, relationships, and individual care and services for your child, you can fall to the bottom of the list. Finding those moments of reprieve and quiet are few and far between. Figure out what works best for you now and allow for small moments to replenish yourself.Loving Myself Again breaks through the ideas of normal self-care and finds you ways to connect with yourself even on those really busy days.This book gives you the foundation of taking care of yourself through:-Including two ideas for each letter of the alphabet-Providing a focused affirmation with each chapter-Simple tricks for implementing personal time-Envisioning your own care in a new light-Compassionate tactics for defeating emotional exhaustionFollow the advice in this book and start seeing yourself calmer, smiling more and interested in learning how you can care for yourself more in as a short as 1 week's time.What's stopping you from using small pockets of your day to re-energize and take care of yourself?

Inhalt

Table Of Contents

Dedication

Introduction

How To Use This Book

A is for Attention

B is for Bonding

C is for Creativity

D is for Downtime

E is for Empathy

F is for Friends

G is for Gratitude...

...Acknowledgements

About The Author

Introduction

Whether your child was in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or Special Care Nursery (SCN) for one day, one year or somewhere in between, it is usually not where you expected to be. Wearing a hospital gown (and maybe even gloves) to reach through two small windows of a plexiglass wall into the world of your newborn child can bring so many questions and emotions.

Taking care of yourself during this time is a journey of struggles and triumphs-a journey that continuously needs to be refocused and approached from new perspectives.

My son, Skye, arrived nine weeks early and spent two months in the NICU. When I was first home with Skye, I was lost. I hadn't connected my overwhelming emotions with the traumas we had gone through. Even when I finally did recognize that I was experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms, I did not want to go to counselling. Let's face it: being a trauma counsellor myself, I knew that working through emotions from trauma is a lot of work. I had a brand-new baby home from the hospital with a compromised immune system, so I did not want to go out-all I wanted to do was sleep. But I finally did pick myself up and start going to a counsellor, which was a saving grace. I realized how much of myself I had forgotten. Skye needed so much of me and because I wanted to protect him, I had stopped thinking about myself. The depletion showed.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.5.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
• Schlagworte: after the NICU • depression after childbirth • love myself again • parent self-care • self-care for men • Self-care for moms • self-care in tough times
• ISBN-10: 1-7772088-1-5 / 1777208815
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7772088-1-3 / 9781777208813