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tdowe | 
11th Feb 2008 at 09:42 | 565 views | 
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How to create an Extraordinary Relationship
1. Learn to love yourself.
You can’t give to other people what you haven’t learned to give yourself. How do you expect any one else to cherish you, love you and adore you when you do not treat yourself in this way?
All relationships start with YOU.
Write down 10 things that you love about being you.
Write down 10 of the wonderful qualities that you have.
Write down 10 things that you can do to show your appreciation for you.
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tdowe | 11th Feb 2008 at 09:09 | 536 views | 0 comments(s)
Re-light My Fire - Ignite the Passion and Romance once more
You’ve been together a number of years and you love each other very much. The passion and chemistry of the early months and years is now a distant memory, it was great while it lasted but your relationship is in it’s next phase now. Isn’t that what people call it when the romance goes and the “comfy with each other but not on fire” sets in?
How would you like to re-kindle that excitement between you? Crea...
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tdowe | 04th Feb 2008 at 10:55 | 501 views | 0 comments(s)
Medication administration records have been widely used in residential care for many years but not so regularly in domiciliary care until quite recently. It’s great to see that they are being used much more widely now in home care and I look forward to the day where they are used in every agency I visit or train.
Why? Because they are essential to good medicines management and to provide you with evidence of medicines support or administration. They are your back up should anythin...
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tdowe | 01st Feb 2008 at 11:20 | 282 views | 0 comments(s)
A fantastic way of changing your focus INSTANTLY is by using something called a swish. The Swish Pattern was developed in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) to develop self-esteem or help to quickly change habits and it can be used at will whenever you want to replace an undesirable state with an empowering one.
The swish conditions your brain so that as soon as you start to think about something you know makes you feel a certain way, e.g., lonely or sad – as soon as those thoughts and ...
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tdowe | 07th Jan 2008 at 09:31 | 516 views | 0 comments(s)
Covert administration of medicines has recently hit the news again and in my training I often meet care workers who do not understand what covert administration is and why it is not acceptable. ‘Covert’ administration of medication is disguising the medicine in food, normally by crushing tablets or opening capsules and mixing them with the food to be eaten by the service user.
Care workers who have not been trained on medicines management will often think they are acting in the best...
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tdowe | 06th Jan 2008 at 09:51 | 352 views | 1 comments(s)
We go through life living each and every day and at the end of each day we decide if it was a good day or a bad day. We get part way through a day and some times it can change from a good day to a bad day or the other way round. Did you ever stop and consider what makes it a good or bad day? Was it the events of the day? Or was it how we felt that day? There are days, aren’t there, when things don’t go our way and yet we still feel great. Other days, things go great and yet we still ...
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tdowe | 02nd Jan 2008 at 11:16 | 597 views | 0 comments(s)
This is an issue that I came across recently whilst delivering training in medicines management to a domiciliary care. I was surprised to hear how much it still happens out there and feel that it’s an area that needs to be highlighted and discussed – put out in the open if you like.
What is secondary dispensing?
Let me give you an example.
You have service users who visit a day centre and will be there for there lunch time medication. The medication is dispensed by the pharmacy in...
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tdowe | 02nd Jan 2008 at 11:08 | 404 views | 0 comments(s)
A topic close to many of our hearts if we are in the business of caring for people who take or use any form of medication. It’s a mine field isn’t it? If you or your care staff were administering medicines to your service users – you would want to ensure that they were fully trained and competent to do so wouldn’t you? Me too.
Supporting people in taking their medication is all a bit scary. What if you get it wrong? The results could be disastrous and therefore many agen...
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tdowe | 20th Dec 2007 at 09:36 | 235 views | 0 comments(s)
I came across a lady today who told me that she had taken antidepressants for 20 years, that she couldn’t live without them, they were her life line. This reminded me of a previous client who told me a similar story a little while ago. Both ladies had taken antidepressants for over 20 years. Both said they relied on them, neither had ever tried to stop taking them to see if they might be fine without them. Both believed that were clinically depressed and that it was inherited.
When ...
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tdowe | 20th Dec 2007 at 08:48 | 248 views | 0 comments(s)
An anchor is “A created association between a specific stimulus and a specific state i.e. a specific emotion.”
Any time a person is in an associated, intense state, if at the peak of that experience, a specific stimulus is applied, then the two will be linked neurologically.
The intense emotional state may be a resourceful state such as confidence, love, joy, passion, excitement, certainty and equally could be an unresourceful state such as anger, sadness, fear, hurt, guilt, loneli...
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