Barb Green, Parish Nurse Milton, WI People who suffer from chronic pain often receive well-meaning advice that quite frankly is not helpful. They may feel isolated and depressed because they cannot participate in activities as they once did. At the same time they may smile, laugh, and praise God while not looking sick at all. This causes others to misunderstand...
Chronic Pain
Barb Green, Parish Nurse Milton, WI The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. An additional 20 million experience severe pain that limits their normal movement and activities. All of us experience pain at some time in our lives. For most, the pain lingers for a short while and then is...
Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Barb Green, Parish Nurse Milton, WI ACEs are serious childhood traumas that result in toxic stress that can harm a child’s brain. Toxic stress may prevent a child from learning or from playing in a healthy way with other children, which can result in long-term health problems. Examples of adverse childhood experiences can include: emotional, physical or sexual...
Mindfulness in the Christian Tradition
Barb Green, Parish Nurse Milton, WI Mindfulness can be described as being more fully aware of your experience in the present moment in a nonjudgmental way. Mindfulness includes waking up to a sense of awareness in your surroundings, taking time to sit and listen rather than doing, and opening things up so that, in God’s time and in God’s way, you might be...
Kidney Disease
Barb Green, Parish Nurse Unless you have had a kidney stone, you have probably given little thought to your kidneys, even though they are vital to your overall health. Most of us have two kidneys each about the size of a fist, located on either side of the spine at the lowest level of the rib cage. Their major function is to remove waste products and...
Healthy Action in Emergency Health Situations
By Marqueta Aiken Philadelphia Seventh Day Baptist Church It is no surprise that sickness and disease can originate in a body that has a spirit which is dead. We know that sin causes spiritual death and separates us from God. We know all have sinned… We live in a world of sin. Until we shed this earthly body to reside in Heaven, we know that all who accept...