Thanksgiving is a time of gratitude and thankfulness. Being thankful and grateful for what you have is very powerful. Gratitude is consistently connected with greater happiness, it helps people feel more positive emotions and improves health. Practicing Gratitude is a high vibrational energy. When you are grateful you attract higher positive energies. Writing daily in a Gratitude Journal assists in raising these positive vibrations. A Certified Body/Emotion Code Practitioner can help you release unprocessed negative (trapped) emotions that will assist you in being grateful.
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Product Profile: VoxxLife Wearable Technology
Over the past four years, Great Socks for All has introduced pain relief and enhanced balance to the people on Vancouver Island. A Canadian, searching for drug free pain relief for his mother’s MS symptoms, spent several years and millions of dollars analysing brainstem functionality and the peripheral nervous system. The result of the research is a very specific sequence and pattern of neuroreceptor activation on the bottom of the feet. This pattern is incorporated into VOXXLife socks and insoles. Benefits include enhanced pain relief and management, especially PDN pain, enhanced postural stability and balance, improved mobility and higher energy levels.
Helping Seniors Eat Healthy
Seniors need to get adequate nutrients from their meals to help them reduce the risk of serious health conditions, stabilize their mood, and maintain their mental health. Retirement communities help meet seniors’ nutrition needs by providing meals that are low in saturated fats and have moderate amounts of unsaturated fat, which promotes a stable body mass index (BMI) and metabolism. Healthy portion sizes support a healthy weight for older adults by preventing excessive calorie intake. If you or a loved one have questions about proper nutrition and eating habits for seniors, reach out to your care provider or retirement community.
Get Online to Stay Connected
About 71 percent of seniors are online every day. Of those who are online, their main reason is to stay connected with family and friends. Whether it’s joining forums or sharing photos and stories with loved ones, social media and email allows seniors with limited mobility the opportunity to interact with others. If you’re interested in getting online but don’t know where to start, community centres and local senior groups often have programs to teach seniors about the internet and how to participate in online communities. Spending time with others benefits our mental and emotional health. It is important as we age to continue to stay socially connected to friends and loved ones.
Daily Routine Important for Seniors
People are afraid of the unknown. If an older adult is losing control over their physical abilities, independence, or cognitive abilities, their world gets filled with more and more unknowns. Establishing routine is extremely important for seniors. A daily routine offers a level of stability that individuals often enjoy, as it allows them to settle into a schedule they understand. Doing the same basic activities like eating, dressing, and bathing at the same time every day is known to improve sleep quality. A predictable routine also helps to reduce stress and anxiety.
Fall Prevention Tips
Falls in the home are all too common and making a few modifications in the home can prevent dangerous situations, such as slippery floors, poor lighting, loose rugs, electrical cords and clutter. Visit each room in your home. Then look at the space objectively and ask: Is this safe? Are there objects or items that present a falls risk? If so, think about the many ways to create a safer home: wear non slip socks or slippers, use night lights in dark hallways, remove throw rugs, keep electrical cords safely hidden behind furniture and organize your projects so they are off the floor and out of walkways.
Co-Regulation Comes Before Self-Regulation
Some of the little people in our lives struggle more than others to develop self-regulation skills. They need us to be their co-regulators in their moments of big feelings. Having a consistent adult that can be an effective co-regulator builds a sense of safety in a child that will give them the foundation to develop self-regulation skills.
Co-regulation is warm and responsive interactions that provide the support, coaching, and modeling children need to understand, express, and modulate their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. How can we be co-regulators when children are experiencing big feelings? *Check yourself – relax your body, remain calm and collected. *Come alongside – get down to the child’s level and acknowledge their feelings and the event that led to them. *Mirror their feelings – subtly mimic their facial expressions and name the emotion they might be feeling.
Get Listed on the WellnessHub
Are you a health care practitioner? Do you have a health and wellness business? If so, you want to get a listing on the WellnessHub – Basic listings are FREE. The WellnessHub is Vancouver Island’s local online health and wellness resource. It features practitioners, businesses, health tips, a monthly contest and much more. Monthly memberships are available for people who want extra exposure. The WellnessHub is supported in print, social media, radio and more. We work with you to get your message out to your potential customers. The Hub attracts thousands of local visitors every month.
FREE Virtual Workshop for Parents
Sundrops Centre for Child Development is offering a FREE Virtual Circle of Security Workshop for Parents who wish to support and strengthen their relationship with their child. The Circle of Security (COSP™) Model helps parents and care-givers to understand their child’s emotional world by learning to read emotional needs, support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions, enhance the development of their child’s self esteem, and honour the innate wisdom and desire for their child to be secure. Sundrops is offering two 8 week sessions (one day time and one evening group) between October 6th and November 24th via Zoom.
Your Gifts Change Lives!
Thank you to everyone who has donated to the Sundrops Centre for Child Development’s Kick Start the Bus Campaign. The generous Cowichan community has donated more than $15,000, meeting and exceeding Island Ford Superstore’s generous $10,000 matching donation! The Children & Family Support Program’s ‘Destination Summer Camp’ participants are enjoying being all together in this new, accessible vehicle and exploring the Cowichan Valley and beyond – enjoying activities such as swimming, bowling, visiting the Raptor Centre, and local parks. Thank you for making this possible. Clements Centre is still seeking and accepting donations for the remaining funds for the new bus – donations can be made online at clementscentre.org/kickstartthebus or by phone at 250-746-4135.
Profile: Clements Centre Society
The Clements Centre Society is one of the largest not-for-profit societies in the Cowichan Valley, and delivers community-based programs to almost 200 adults in the region. Programs include supported recreational activities, vocational training and a residential program to connect clients with suitable housing options. The society also runs the Sundrops Centre for Child Development in Duncan that helps support children with cognitive and physical disabilities and their families. The new Stanko-Casswell Place in Cobble Hill will feature an open space for arts, crafts and education programs, sensory quiet rooms and a modern, accessible kitchen for cooking programs.The location provides a safe and accessible space for people served in the Valley’s south end, which has a growing population and a need for more accessible day programs.
