This post is of general interest to those of us living with uncertainty.
Hospice of the Valley (which provides hospice services to those in Santa Clara County) has a nice e-newsletter with resources for family caregivers. In the May/June 2015 e-newsletter, which came out today, there’s a good article on living with uncertainty:
www.seriousillness.org/santaclaracounty/newsletter/#t2947
Living with uncertainty
Hospice of the Valley
May/June 2015 e-newsletter
There’s a good list of “questions to recognize and challenge [our] ‘need’ for certainty.” One question is:
“Do your predictions focus mostly on bad things happening?”
And there’s a related article about worrying worth checking out:
www.seriousillness.org/santaclaracounty/newsletter/index.php?issued=2013-05-09#t1523
When the worrying won’t stop
Hospice of the Valley
May/June 2013 e-newsletter
In the article about worrying, this interesting suggestion is given:
“Schedule a 45-minute ‘worry time’ for yourself every day. If a worry pops up at another time, write it down for review during your next worry period.”
Seems kind of long but I like the general idea.
Robin