About and Work with Me
I'm Joye, also as Qlf OUtlook for author name, a RN/BSN and now worikng as an independent health coach and patient advocate. I am also a volunteer for the National Patient Advocate Foundation, a nationwide organization to make patients’ voices heard and to inform, engage, empower them. As a Registered Nurse with diversified clinical and pharmaceutical drug development background, teaching and coaching is my natural practice extension. I am passionate to work with seniors for healthy aging toward optimal health/wellness goals, with caring, compassion, and natural healing power. I help with individuals with aging challenges and health behavior transformation. In the role of independent Health Coach, the knowledge, experience, and unbiased position have been integrated into coaching practice under ethical professional code of conduct. Health coaching motivates new skill learning and behavior change to enhance healthy life style. It focuses on mind set and resilience, fostering self-care, and making small improvements toward realistic goals. I will be happy to work with you online and offline (1:1) individually. Contact [email protected] for your health coaching needs. My Story: A New Chapter in Life In memory of my deceased sister, QualityLifeForum.net was born in 2015. My sister would be pleased to know that her course of illness and sad experiences would benefit others in many ways, i.e., to optimize self-care, overcome challenges in coping with illness, and engage in personal medical care management and health decision making. My sister had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She was treated with chemotherapy and doing very well. She was full of life and worked full time for 13 years after the diagnosis, up to the time she was persuaded to undergo a bone marrow transplant (BMT) for “cure”. She became totally disabled and getting weaker each day afterwards as her immune system was completely destroyed by the BMT. Consequently, complications and treatments became endless vicious cycles. The aggressive medical treatments killed her cancer and also took her life at age 61. In fact, her final test results revealed free of cancer but at the cost of life, but it was meaningless. Necessary treatment vs. over-treatment results in different outcomes of life or death. It is possible to live with cancer as a chronic disease, under proper medical management. The true value is not the “cure” achievement, but life extension with best health potential. There many cancer survivors. My mother lived 30 years after her colon cancer surgery. She passed away at age 95 due to Altzhmimer's disease. The Altzhmimer's disease progression is devastating. Coping with dementia is very challenging and so many people are suffering. I truly feel the pain, as gone through the tough times. I understood the mind and body during aging process from experience. We only live once. Life is irreversible. With heartbroken sadness and grief from my family loss, I was determined to do something. I joined the National Patient Advocate Foundation as a volunteer, to help improving the lives of patients and families. I transformed my energy from grieving to health coaching. QualityLifeForum.net is now serving the aging community as a advocate resource. Illness and health conditions are making people vulnerable, as they often feel lost and distressed, under biased influence and persuasion, unaware of certain intentions of incentivized to overtreat, and frustrated with the complicity of health care system. They have the needs to get help and support, to be informed, educated, and resilient. They need unbiased input to assure that the medical treatment plan is truly for the best interest of the patient. They need to be empowered in self-care and making their health care decisions with confidence. Quality Life Forum Mission and Value Quality Life Forum is aimed to enhance optimal quality of life and well-being, with caring, compassion, and natural healing power. Quality Life Forum values professionalism and self-care in health coaching practice. Quality Life Forum health coach will be a mentor, educator, and advocate, to nurture health mindset and behavioral transformation for healthy aging and enhance quality of life. Support quality Life Forum Your supports for qualitylifeform are very much appreciated. By click below, your given will benefit healthy aging resource for the community and promote wellness. Any amount counts! Thanks for your generosity and contributions for healthy aging support. |