Help Yourself...: A Nurse's Guide to Implementing Self-Care

My personal experience as a nurse has brought me here today. We have been blessed with the ability to care for people. We are compassionate loving caring individuals with a passion to help. We dont like to see people experience emotional and or physical pain and we will do our very best as nurses to help them in any way we can. We are nurses to our patients clients members families friends and our pets. We are conditioned to care for everyone first before we take care of ourselves - Lillian Gonzalez. Author and nurse Lilian Gonzalez has witnessed throughout her life and career as a nurse that many of her colleagues and friends dont take care of themselves. Nurses bodies put up with a lot of physical mental and emotional abuse much of which they fail to deal with until its too late. They work under a lot of stress and this can bring on illness disease and mental anguish. Many of the nurses that Lillian has met suffer from anxiety depression insomnia obesity anorexia bulimia arthritis poor memory headaches myalgias and so many other diseases--all while still wanting to look after others before themselves. In this must-read book Lillian shares with you her life experience as a nurse and the tools and strategies she has picked up along the way during her thirty years of experience in the medical field. You will learn self-healing techniques you can incorporate in your daily routine that are critical to your emotional and physical wellbeing. Because when we are healthy and happy within ourselves we will transmit the energy to our patients family friends and everyone we meet.