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Aging | Chronic Illness | Loneliness

Chronic illness support

About this Group

55+ age. If live with an illness, injury with mobility issues, feel isolated, not much support, physically, emotionally. Mental, physical illness. Come join us and talk about how you are feeling, what are you doing to help yourself or not presently. What you hope to achieve from this group. Goals. Ex Feel less lonely, sad, focus on what can control, not what, who cant. Use DBT skills if radical acceptance, don't have to like it, situation, neighbors, families but do need to accept it, stop fighting it to find peace. In AA bug book, says Acceptance us the answer to all my problems today. In group, we have opportunity to practice DBT, CBT, somatic, ex. deep breathing, tapping, grounding, feet on ground connecting to senses like listen to music , see your cat, smell a flower to stay in the now. Helps if dissociate, mind wanders from past sadly,regretfully,did best with what knew,had at time,so did everyone else,let's self,others off hook,it never changes,don't stare to fear fully into future. Anticipate joyfully or not at all. RI. Recovery International. Tool. Quite, spot from book Mental Health Through Will Training. IFS, Internal Family systems,by Robert Schwartz. We have different parts of us. Due to trauma,we split. Fractured self. Together we can explore these different parts,protector,self,exiles,child and welcome them all to the table if recovery.

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Content Warning

Group may include sensitive or triggering topics.

Tuesday, Sep 29

8:30PM - 9:30PM UTCLanguage: English
1 Attending19 spots left