Hasara na Nguvu ya Jumuiya

Bango la Meaghan Ruddy
Aikoni ya Afya ya Mtu Mzima

Hasara na Nguvu ya Jumuiya

Ninapoandika haya, ni -4° Fahrenheit. Hiyo ni baridi sana, lakini msingi wa ulimwengu ni baridi zaidi: -455° Fahrenheit! Nyota yetu hutuweka joto sana wakati dunia yetu inapoinamia wakati wa kiangazi hivi kwamba tunapoegemea wakati wa majira ya baridi kali, baridi huingia kama Krampus (mtu wa kizushi wa kutisha kutoka katika ngano za Ulaya Magharibi). Kupoteza kwa joto wakati wa majira ya baridi haipaswi kutushangaza, lakini hasara ya aina yoyote kawaida hutufanya.

Huzuni mara nyingi huhisi tupu na baridi. Kwamba wanadamu wameunda matambiko ambayo yanatukusanya pamoja wakati wa majira ya baridi ni ushuhuda wa hekima yetu.

Unaweza, bila shaka, kuendelea na siku yako, lakini ikiwa ungependa kusoma kidogo kuhusu hasara na mila ya jumuiya inayohusiana na Sanctuary, endelea.

The “L” of the SELF piece in the Sanctuary Model is for Loss. According to the Sanctuary Standards for Certification, it is important for members of an organization to acknowledge and grieve instances of loss and distress, but also to intentionally allow “the past to constructively inform decisions about present and future issues.”

Njia moja ya kufikiria juu ya hili ni kwamba mabadiliko yote yanahusisha hasara. Aina za mabadiliko na hasara katika huduma za afya zinaweza kuwa za kusikitisha, lakini pia zinaweza kuwa hatua muhimu za maendeleo, kama vile wakati mgonjwa wa watoto anakuwa mtu mzima na umri kutoka kwa mtoa huduma mmoja hadi mwingine, wakati mtoto anazaliwa na mama kuhama kutoka OBGYN hadi. dawa ya familia, mwenzako anapopandishwa cheo au kubadilisha idara, au wakati ruzuku inapoisha au inapoanza kulazimisha uelekezaji kwingine wa umakini na nishati.

Generally, we do not do well with loss. We whisper about therapy the way people used to whisper about cancer. Emotions make us uncomfortable. We whisk our dead away quickly and are even quicker to say “everything is going to be okay” when, in many cases, it won’t. Other individuals have brought rituals of community to help fellow humans through loss, such as sitting shiva and Irish wakes. But as new citizens assimilate such rituals themselves often are lost to an ever-churning progress machine. We don’t take time off, don’t have much patience for sadness, and show our irritation with terms like “stuck in the past.”

The thing about loss is that if we don’t address it head-on, it gets stuck in us.

Physicians like Bessel van der Kolk and Gabor Mate have spoken out for decades about the effect distress has on the body. Diffuse pain, digestive issues, and even heart conditions can be symptoms of unresolved distress. It is more acceptable to stuff our pain with food or drink it away with alcohol than it is to take a yoga break during the workday or seek help from a therapist.

Life can be very cold, and isolation makes it worse. The warmth of community can help with the processing of loss and grief, but all too often we withhold community from one another and ourselves.

To become a Sanctuary organization is to become a place where we come together intentionally in community and engage in rituals to support the processing of not just loss, but the daily challenges of being in health care such as missed visits and disappointing outcomes. This processing is active; it is not dwelling. It is recognition of what happened without varnish or gloss and also intentionally learning the lessons.

Hii ni kazi kali. Kazi hii inahitaji kwamba kila mtu anayejishughulisha kweli, aingie katika uwanja wa kuonekana - huzuni na yote. Wakati wa Uraia wake katika hotuba ya Jamhuri mnamo 1910, Rais wa zamani Theodore Roosevelt alisema:

“Si mkosoaji anayehesabika: si mtu anayeonyesha jinsi mtu mwenye nguvu anavyojikwaa au ambapo mtendaji wa matendo angeweza kufanya vizuri zaidi. Sifa ni ya mtu ambaye kwa hakika yuko uwanjani, ambaye uso wake umechafuliwa na vumbi na jasho na damu, anayejitahidi kwa ushujaa, anayekosea na kupungukiwa tena na tena, kwa sababu hakuna juhudi bila makosa au upungufu, lakini ni nani. anajua shauku kubwa, ibada kuu, ambaye anatumia mwenyewe katika jambo linalostahili; ambaye, kwa ubora zaidi, anajua, mwishowe, ushindi wa mafanikio ya juu, na ambaye, katika hali mbaya zaidi, ikiwa atashindwa, angalau atashindwa huku akithubutu sana, ili mahali pake pasiwe na roho hizo baridi na za woga. ambaye hakujua ushindi wala kushindwa.”

Hapa ni kwa wanaothubutu. Inatisha hapa, na baridi, lakini chini sana tunapothubutu pamoja.


Kidokezo cha Haraka

Kuna mazoea mengi ya kutolewa mtandaoni. Hapa kuna moja unaweza kujaribu kazini bila mtu yeyote kugundua:

  1. Simama na miguu yako kwa raha upana wa mabega.
  2. Upole konda uzito wako upande mmoja wa mwili wako. Weka usawa kwenye ukingo wa nje wa mguu kwenye upande unaoegemea, na upande wa ndani wa mguu upande unaoegemea.
  3. Chukua pumzi 2-3 polepole, kwa kina.
  4. Rudia kuegemea upande wa pili wa mwili wako.
  5. Rudia kila upande mara 2-3.
  6. Nyosha na kuitingisha.

Pia, ikiwa unataka kuhusu dakika 6 za hekima juu ya harakati kutoka kwa Dk van del Kolk, bofya hapa .


Asante,

Meaghan P. Ruddy, Ph.D.
Makamu wa Rais Mwandamizi
Masuala ya Kielimu, Tathmini ya Biashara na Maendeleo,
na Afisa Mkuu wa Utafiti na Maendeleo
Kituo cha Wright cha Elimu ya Uzamili ya Matibabu

Njia ya Wright kwa nembo ya Ustawi wa Mtu Mzima