Integrative Health Coaching for Caregivers
Co-Creating With You
to find balance and joy in caregiving
Taking Care of Others
Doesn't Mean Forgetting About Yourself
Caregiving is difficult whether you’re a family caregiver or a well-prepared clinician! I’ve been both and dealing with the healthcare system either as a patient advocate or an employee is never a simple matter. You don’t have to make this journey alone!
Irritable & Impatient
Guilty About Taking Time For Yourself
Resentful About Your Caregiving Responsibilities
You Don't Have to Keep Suffering.
Meet Your Coach
Paula S. Forte
CEO & Integrative Health and Wellness Coach
Ph.D., M.S.N., R.N., NBC-HWC
Paula Forte is a nationally certified integrative health coach and proprietor of Co-Create 4 Life, LLC, in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She is a retired RN with a Master’s Degree in Women’s and Children’s Health Nursing and a Ph.D. in Adult Education and Organizational Development. She completed her study of Integrative Health and Wellness Coaching at the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing. She is also certified as an Interactive Guided Imagery Practitioner and works with individuals and groups both in-person and online. Her latest book, Self-care Strategies for Family Caregivers, is available for purchase at Amazon and the publisher, Xlibris. Paula is available for workshops and presentations on a range of well-being topics from self-care to holistic approaches to well-being, rebuilding resilience, and battling burnout.
What I Do
After 50 years as a nurse and caregiver, I’ve personally experienced the paucity of self-care that stems from giving your life to helping others.
Through private coaching, speaking events, and my book, Self-care Strategies for Family Caregivers, I help emotionally and physically drained caregivers re-prioritize themselves through holistic, practical strategies to well-being, rebuilding resilience, and battling burnout so they can regain control over their lives and rediscover their authentic self.
Personalized Coaching
Through 1:1 coaching, I help overwhelmed caregivers re-discover themselves by rewriting the narrative that controls their lives. Together, we can identify opportunities for applying life-changing strategies that can transform your health and wellbeing.
Workshops and Retreats
By providing full-length keynote presentations and 18-minute TED-talk like high-powered speeches, your group will be inspired to take action by setting aside beliefs that no longer serve them and taking steps to become the best version of themselves.
Educational Resources
In my book, Self-care Strategies for Family Caregivers, you will find five arenas of life that require self-care for anyone serving as a caregiver. You will also find recommendations and tools that help you overcome the myriad obstacles of prioritizing self-care.
Blog
You are not alone! Learn more about the topics Co-Create 4 Life specializes in through our educational blog. From Befriending Your Inner Critic, to Practicing the Loving Kindness Meditation, you can find various resources to help you along your journey to health and wellness.
Ready to go from Overwhelmed to Overjoyed?
Perfect for Busy Family Caregivers
Overwhelmed to Overjoyed will help you reimagine how you think and speak of your caregiving experience, build skills and strategies for re-creating your narrative, and create a self-care tool-kit that will help you live a healthier, happier & more fulfilled life.
If you are:
- Feeling exhausted, even after a good night's sleep.
- Losing interest or no energy left to enjoy the activities you used to.
- Becoming easily irritable or impatient with the person you care for or others around you.
And you're ready to have:
- Less overwhelm
- Increased resilience
- More joy
I created this program to help you because I know what it feels like.
Testimonials
- B.L., Customer Service Agent
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Latest Blogs
You are not alone! Learn more about the topics Co-Create 4 Life specializes in through our educational blog. From arguing with your inner critic to a loving and kindness meditation, you can find various resources to help you along your caregiving journey.
The painful cost of self-neglect
Years ago, when I first became a Health & Wellness Coach, I encountered a woman, the wife of an Alzheimer’s Disease patient, who had become so enmeshed in her husband’s needs, his care priorities, that she’d neglected her own wellbeing. She was not the only spouse I met who had abandoned the ordinary routines of managing her own health, but her story stood out to me.
Getting honest about love, self-love
I try to make it my practice to read something inspirational every day. I always appreciate something that challenges me, stretches my way of thinking or seems counterintuitive; those readings intrigue me most. Recently I was on Oprah’s website and found these words about self-love…
Freedom! Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness
I started this blog in earnest in the fall of 2020 and have been at it ever since. With that said, I have made a bold business decision – I’m going to cut back on my writing. Now that I find myself in a new iteration of my life (and business, for that matter), I’m working toward a clear appreciation that less may be more.