i find the color blue to be a very therapeutic color as it calms my anxiety level when i am surrounded by the color blue...especially a french blue color.
i have been awake half the night....unable to sleep...so....guess who i turn to after i'm finished talking to my lord? that's right.....my allnurses siblings. :kiss
i was thinking of things that would calm my anxious heart, and remembered when i took industrial arts in high school how soothing it was for me to work with wood.
i love the smell of wood, sanding wood, shaping wood into different objects, etc. i even want to design and build my own wood furniture when i can afford the hobby.
i made a wooden fish with a green marble for an eye when my oldest daughter was a toddler. i was so very proud of my big fish, too. so was my kiddo!
what things do you as nurses do that you find very therapeutic?
do you ever suggest to your anxious patients therapeutic hobbies to do while they are awaiting surgery, or recovering at home, etc.?
what calms you the most that you share with your patients or other peer employees when you notice that they are dealing with a very stressful situation in their life?
