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Complementary Therapies & Emotional Healing
Pathways Health Crisis Resource Center
University of Minnesota8th Annual Survivorship Conference
Saturday, April 6th, 2013
A health crisis resource center, in Uptown:
-Provide complementary therapies, services and resources to people in life-threatening or severe chronic health crisis, and their families and caregivers.
-Offer services for free.
Who is Pathways
Complementary healing practices are offered as adjuncts to standard medical treatments
Creative Therapy Practices• Art, music, or dance
Body-Based Practices• Massage, Reflexology, Therapeutic touch
Transformation through Grief, Loss, or Change• Sandtray, Grief Support for Caregivers
Mind-Body-Spirit, Energy Healing Practices• Meditation, Yoga , Guided Imagery, Tai Chi, Reiki, Qi Gong
Who We Serve• Participants with:
– Life Threatening Illness
– Severe Chronic Illness or Pain
• 7667 Pathways Participants in 2012:– 2387 Individual sessions
– 5280 Participants in Group sessions
– Plus workshops and special events
Who Provides Pathways Services?
• Over 160 Volunteer Providers• Licensed, certified in respective fields
• Provided at no cost • Service Above Self.
Emotional Enrichment & Healing• Reconnecting-Strengthening
Relationships
• Reflective Listening
• Learning to Listen to Your Heart
• Tools for Living Consciously with Dying
How Can
Complementary Therapies
Help Illnesses like…..
(Lymphedema?)(A few examples..)
Yoga •Uses stretching, postures and breathing to help balance the body, mind and spirit.
•These exercises help promote ease of movement and lymphatic drainage following breast cancer treatment
(Laughter) Yoga can:
•Flush the lungs and fully oxygenates the blood and major organs
•Destroy cancer cells in the presence of extra oxygen.
•Trigger the release of endorphins into the bloodstream, providing immediate pain relief.
•Move lymph fluid around the body simply by the spasms during laughter- stress switches off the lymphatic system, laughter can switch it on.
Cranio-Sacral/ Lymph Drainage
•Light touch helps release physical tension, encourage psycho-emotional balance, relieve stress.
•Helpful in addressing: impingement of cranial nerves, left-right imbalances, head injuries, feelings of compression or pressure, anxiety, depression, circulatory disorders
•Craniosacral has no contraindications for those affected by primary breast cancer.
•Manual manipulation of the lymphatic ducts consists of gentle, rhythmic massaging of the skin to stimulate the flow of lymph and its return to the blood circulation system.
http://www.spineuniverse.com/treatments/craniosacral-therapy
One Perspective
Current Medical Practice-
evolving to >>>>>Integrative Practice
Health is most often considered to be the absence of disease >>>>>
Health is seen as a vital state of physical, mental, social and spiritual wellbeing, which enables a person to be engaged in life
The physician tends to act as the authority figure >>>>>
The physician acts as a partner in the patient’s care
The patient is encouraged to follow the physician’s directions >>>>>
The empowered and informed patient is an integral part of the decision-making process
The interventions are often directed only towards the treatment of a specific disease or trauma >>>>>
Intervention designed to treat the illness as well as the whole person, addressing physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual factors that influence health & disease.
Pause
&
Breathe
Evaluative Research Measure ‘Before & After’ Shifts in Participant
Health Outcomes
Pathways Participants Self Assessment: Shifting From Crisis to Well-being
Ritenbaugh et al, BMC Complement Altern Med. 2011 Dec 29;11:135. Thompson et al, BMC Complement Altern Med. 2011 Dec 29;11(1):136
Within each set of indicators, participants showed significant shifts in improved well being and emotional health.
Ritenbaugh et al, BMC Complement Altern Med. 2011 Dec 29;11:135. Thompson et al, BMC Complement Altern Med. 2011 Dec 29;11(1):136
Pathways: From Crisis to Well-being
OVERWHELMED EMPOWERED26 64
+146%
ANXIOUS CALM33 66
+100%
EXHAUSTED ENERGIZED26 57
+119%
HOPELESS HOPEFUL39 69
+77%
Renewing LifePartnering with Mind/Body/SpiritNourishing RelationshipsRestoring SpiritExpressing FeelingsMaking MeaningCreating Healing SpacesLoving LifeCelebrating a Renewed Life
Opportunities for You
I. Renewing Life Program 8 weeks, 2 ½ hours/week 3 Day Weekend Retreat
II. Become a Renewing Life Facilitator Training program and co-facilitator field training
Pathways Renewing Life Program Outcomes
Pathways ParticipantPathways Participant
“I often compare getting a serious diagnosis to landing in a foreign country needing to learn the language and learn it well because your life may depend on it.
Pathways is the map - the dictionary - the guidebook to the language – whatever your new language may be.
It’s the place where you’re accepted - comforted - touched - listened to. It is peaceful. It is caring. It is hope.”
Pathways ParticipantPathways Participant
Staff -Please enjoy this plant as an appreciation -a huge token of thanks for all that I’ve experienced here. I found the name of the plant fitting: “Watch It Grow”.
Thanks for helping put Humpty Dumpty back together again.