Aviva Yoselis

Unconventional Self-Care: 5 Refreshing Tips to Recharge Your Soul

In addition to managing my own business as a healthcare advocate, you may also know that I am a mother of five and the guardian of my mother, who has dementia and lives with me (with an amazing live-in carer btw!). I get asked about self-care a lot. From friends. From clients. “How should I …

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Taking heart medication? You should read this.

Moving to another country can be scary.  Moving to another country and having to take new medication, can be terrifying.   One of the questions I always ask my clients moving to Israel, is what medications are you currently taking?  Because Israel has a wildly different health system than the United States, and what you’ve been …

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Spoonies: Guest post by Dr. Peter Phillips

This post was written by one of my favorite clients and truly special person…who deals with chronic pain on a daily basis. Chronic ill health, disability and fatigue: Where did my energy go? Dr. Peter Phillips A few months ago during yet another arthritis flare, I happened across a set of self help articles talking …

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What did my mother teach me?

What did I learn from my mother? When your parent is first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, it’s almost a relief.  Finally, there’s a reason, an explanation for the ‘off’ behavior.  Ten years into the journey, the diagnosis becomes a bit of a grind.    It’s familiar, doable, but leaves an air of disappointment at every realization …

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Dead to Me, Netflix and Patient Advocacy?!

Binging a series on Netflix is obviously a stress release, and often my job revolves around helping people who are ill, or overwhelmed, or suffering, and often all of those emotions. So, releasing stress is an important part of my day. But I can’t turn off my patient advocate head, even during those moments.