What?
This blog was created with the purpose of documenting my personal exploration and journey through the HEAL program.
Hi! I'm Rose. I have been a registered nurse for 9 years. I work in the PACU (post anesthetic care unit). It's the room where patients wake up after their surgery. In the past 4 years I have also been teaching nursing students part time. This is where I discovered my love for teaching and learning.
In my personal life I wear many hats: a wife, mother of a toddler, sister, daughter, and a friend. I moonlight as an amateur foodie, love to travel, and can read a book in one sitting (time permitting). I love to try new foods, try new things, and yet my daily activities say that I am a creature of habit. I am a morning person. I enjoy pilates, yoga, and snowboarding. Although I have yet to fully embrace my gym membership for all of its benefits. I will always choose a walk with my dog before a session in the gym.
In my personal life I wear many hats: a wife, mother of a toddler, sister, daughter, and a friend. I moonlight as an amateur foodie, love to travel, and can read a book in one sitting (time permitting). I love to try new foods, try new things, and yet my daily activities say that I am a creature of habit. I am a morning person. I enjoy pilates, yoga, and snowboarding. Although I have yet to fully embrace my gym membership for all of its benefits. I will always choose a walk with my dog before a session in the gym.
When?
There is no better time than the present. I am a true believer in the law of attraction. Some call it "the secret". I believe that fate/luck/chance are just small contributors to one's success. I try to create my future purposefully and with good intentions.
Why HEAL?
I love to learn, and am fascinated by people. I have always toyed around with the idea of doing my masters degree one day. However, I was never truly inspired or motivated until a family crisis shook my values and reminded me about the fragile gift of time. So I went looking for a program that combined my love for education and interest in health promotion. And here we are today...
What can I contribute?
I believe that my professional and personal experiences dealing with illness, trauma, pain, joy, recovery, and rehabilitation will be valuable. With our cohort I would like to share my enthusiasm, a love for learning, my leadership skills and positive energy.
I believe that my professional and personal experiences dealing with illness, trauma, pain, joy, recovery, and rehabilitation will be valuable. With our cohort I would like to share my enthusiasm, a love for learning, my leadership skills and positive energy.
What do I want from HEAL?
Although I teach others about health promotion and about living a healthy life, internally I sometimes feel out of balance. I understand the basic theory of physical wellness, and illness prevention, and treatment of disease. However in this program, I would like to focus more on my own health promotion journey; to become more attuned to my spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical self. I hope to learn how to better educate my patients, my students, my family, and most of all, myself.
I am excited. I am nervous. I am humbled. I am open.
Hi Rose,
ReplyDeleteI can tell that you are very passionate about the HEAL program. Some of what you mentioned in your post resonated with me - I would also describe myself as a life-long learner and want to take this opportunity in the program to focus on my own health just as much as I want to focus on ways to promote health among others. I can relate to your point on the "gift of time" and am glad we are all in this journey together. Reading your post, as well as others, made me feel even more reassured I am part of an amazing group of individuals who I am excited to learn with and from.
See you soon!
Lehoa
Hi Rose,
ReplyDeleteSo pleased to know you even better from your post. I admire your spirit about lifetime learning. It is my good fortune to be working with passionate individuals like you, creating better future for ourselves and others. We are drawn into this course because we share the similar objective. The law of attraction puts all of us into this wonderful course. This is going to be really good!
HI Rose. I like what you've said about the irony of teaching health and maintaining it yourself. I struggle with that as well, and hope, like you, to achieve and maintain balance in this program. I look forward to watching you grow in this and learning more about you and your thoughts through this blogging exercise.
ReplyDeleteMary-Ann