#lookdeep

In writing "A Family's Guide to Critical Care," I drew from my mom's unexpected twelve week inpatient journey that resulted in her having a dozen surgeries including ECMO and a bilateral lung transplant. This experience profoundly shaped our lives and led me to write this guide to offer both practical advice and emotional support to families navigating the complex and often overwhelming world of critical care. It's about more than just medical details; it's about understanding the emotional landscape, advocating effectively, and finding some level of control through the uncontrollable. My hope is that this guide serves as a beacon for those who feel lost, providing clarity and support when it's needed most. This became the north start for me in founding LookDeep Health to help hospitals and provides be ever present for every patient.

The way we learn how to take care of ourselves starts with the love we receive as children. We go to school and they teach us healthy and unhealthy food groups. When we have low self esteem we exhibit unhealthy thinking about who we are taking us down a lonely road. If we don’t love ourselves we develop unhealthy habits keeping us from happiness. There are problems when we are unhealthy making life more complicated then it has to be.

When we criticize ourselves this keeps us from love and any movement forward. This causes unhealthy thinking and the ripple effects moves us away from what we want . Life has cruelty and trauma that unleashes behaviors that are unhealthy. We start to believe we cannot change from what life has dealt us and the behaviors created from our pasts. All our unhealthy ways can change when we believe we are worth it.

Think before action,

Stop criticizing everyone,

Be worth something.