Integrative health coaching
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 owner of Co-Create 4 Life, LLC, a coaching and consulting business in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She is a master’s prepared RN who also holds 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 in 2020. She is also certified as an Interactive Guided Imagery Practitioner who works with individuals and groups both in-person and online. She has written several books and other publications and publishes a free blog twice a month for her readers, available HERE. 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.
Working on autumn alignment
Working on autumn alignment…
I long to live an aligned life – to live out my core values in the choices I make every day. So, for me, much of life feels like a review session, an audit of how things are going and where a course correction might be required. I do this through an on-going process of journaling and a seasonal review of my self-care plans to make sure I’m still on track. I’m measuring against what I know to be my Authentic Self – the underneath-it-all person who I am meant to be.
Holding on & letting go
Recently, a friend helped me retrieve a huge cache of lovely, decorative pieces that were stashed away on storage shelves too high for me to reach. Among them we found nearly eleven dozen pieces of crystal stemware and seven vintage coffee pots along with my husband’s mother’s China, a pattern that was discontinued around 1942.
Essential Self-Care Needs
This past week I had an opportunity to speak to a small gathering of nurses about how to engage in conversation with family caregivers about self-care. Using the framework of my book, Self-Care Strategies for Family Caregivers, I offered the 5-part model that includes these arenas for self-care: Educational, Emotional, Spiritual, Physical and Grieving.