Having Spiritual Wellness

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Welcome to the answers for elders radio show. meet the trusted experts who will give you straight answers and will help guide you on the path of later life care. Now here’s your host, founder, caregiver and CEO, Susan Newman, and welcome everyone to answers for reading. And as you can see, if you’re watching, assign me Toube, we are not in our home studio again. We have the opportunity to be directly at Morning Star senior living and we have a wonderful community here that has been going undergoing this incredible renovation and I you know, I talked to our listeners a little bit more about how amazing this community is up and Everett, Washington on, you know, just write in a backyard of bank field literally, and the Nice thing about it is, obviously, is that it’s been in the community for a very, very long time. Just undergone a new acquisition by morning star senior living, as well as obviously some incredible upgrades. And we are here again to finish our series where we started, the foundational principles of us and we know that you guys are all excited because, running our analytics, I just learned that Lata’s first four segments is right now. Out Out of all our library of over seven hundred podcasts, she’s number one right now. So this is really important for all of you who work care partners, that are taking care of a loved one or thinking about how we can keep the best quality of life and you’re senior loved ones. And so, guess what? We are back with the last four foundational principles. And Will Alta Quaevius is the vice president of the region here in at Morgan Start Living. She’s up here for California again and here to meet with us and a later welcome back to answer for elders. Thanks and it’s great to be here and thank you all for listening as well and having those money downloads and hits. It’s really a blessing and when we greatly thank you and appreciate you for all that. And I just to kind of recap. We know we talked about morning start taking a holistic approach to wellness and we talked about the eight principles of one as and what that looks like. So we started with emotional wellness, we had environmental wellness, we have safety as a big kick issue and we want us about. And now we’re going to talk about occupational wellness, spiritual illness, intellectual, social and physical. Okay, so what I wanted to really start off with is s virtual wellness. This broadsial wellness is important for all of us, I feel, in the sense that it brings us clothes, sir, to our core beliefs and principles. Yes, here at Morning Star we live by five core values, and our five core values as a company is love, kindness, honesty, goodness, fairness and respect. And above all that, I believe that the best one, for me at least, has been loved, because with love you conquer all. And if we look at those girs of that as a spiritual wellness, it’s just being a good person, is doing the right thing and doing the right thing by others, and when you have that, that heartbeat just radiates. And we want to be radically different as a company, and I believe that if we as a company, as that members, as team members, as ours, our residence and families, when we do this for each other, yes, you can radically feel the different when you walk into the building, when there’s two things that I’m going to say specifically about morning stone. Number One. I walk into this community and every single person is smile away. Yeah, there’s no it’s there’s just this this sense of wellbeing when you come through the door, which is really incredible. And you know, often times you don’t see that. You know, you see seniors may not be, you know, happy just because they’re suffering or they’re having a hard time, but I think it’s the wellbeing factor is because they feel loved and they feel care for and and you know, I was speaking with John Jager, that your vice president of operations in workpared office yesterday and the privilege of talking to him and we were talking a little bit about your community and how you know, your philosophy and your company, and one of the things that I said to him is like, you know, you guys automatically bring people in like they remember of your family, and I think that’s the thing that really prevails everything, that you don’t feel like you’re an outsider here or you feel like you’re included, that you’re honored and then your validate. I think that’s really important. When your spirit feels good, yes, right, that’s that’s when your spirit feels good, you know it’s going to be a good location. It’s going to be a good community, it’s going to be a good home. When I think about my home, you know, my personal home with my family, love is at the center of of home, of family at what makes what makes that look good and feel good. And so I think that’s what we do exceptionally well here at morning. Start seeing a living in all our communities. Here at Soever like in particular, it’s really an embonding love, kindness, honesty, goodness, fairness and respect and everything that we do. Again, it starts at our before. But we believe in in spirituality as a key dimension and well, right, we are open to all religions. At the end of the day, you know, we want our residence, our families members to feel included. Right, offering a lot of different spiritual things on site, from Bible study, is going to different churches. My mom is a stud that they advantaged herself, so she would be going out to church on Saturday, studying all day on a Saturday, to even offering meditation, Yoga, going out to a park and being out in the elements and being able to be one with mother Earth. Right. So there’s a lot of ways that we will encompass spirituality within our community. But it’s true, because we’ve done a remote location, not to love go spacey and we were having Your Garden and I think one of the things that spiritual wellness does is it ground you correct individual. It’s like you have this sense of knowing this foundation of your source square after that is but I think one one of the things that I do know is that everyone has a different idea of what that hath looks like, because we’re we are. There’s infinite personalities right and infinite ways in which our creator has is made us right. So we’re making choices that are best for one another and I think one of the things that’s really important from this is finding that centered within yourself right to know who you are, to have that grounding and then be validated for that. I know they there’s a lot of things out there in this world right now where people are being persecuted because of their beliefs, part or their spiritual wellness, and I think the thing that you guys are doing is you’re including, you’re writing, you you’re allowing people to be validated for who they are. Amen, and I think that’s one of the things that you know is really amen, and that’s that’s exactly what we’re aiming to do. That, and thank you so much for saying it that way, because it is important for us as humans and it goes back to again our core, our values, and in fairness and kindness and love and everything that we do. But it is providing a safe haven for us to be individually ourselves. Yeah, and to be kind for ourselves as well. Part of SPIRITUUANA’s is self care. So when we look at Spirtualuanas, it’s really taking a look at what’s inside of us. Yeah, that spiritually who we are as people. Are we being kind, you know, are we being fair? Are I have to you know, I constantly have to do a self check myself, and that’s why I love to meditate, I love to go hiking and a resins have the opportunity in the laage do all these things, which is amazing. Life does not stop, no, it gives. Yeah, so later, when some much when enterest your community and new person, how do you tap into who they are? What is your process to get to know that? That is a great question. I’m glad you asked. So we actually of a document that we call to love me is to know me, and so the love me is to know me. Document really allows our residence to put everything on this piece of papers. That would that we get to know them a little bit better. I’m a big believer, im sure some of your listeners I’ve heard, of the five love languages. So there is the golden rule, treat everybody else you want to be treated, and then there’s the platform role, which is treat others as they want to be treated. Yeah, and so you know this, this document really helps us provide the best living for our residence based on their needs. You know what and how they feel like. And you know, one of the things you said that really resonated with me is treat others how they want to be treat as a senior, maybe developing memory issues, dementia, Alzheimer’s. One of the things that happens, obviously, is that I witness people in our industry start treating like children or family members. Get Control, like right, they get the whole principle of you know who’s this love of one. Yeah, whether they’re you know what stage of Alzheimer’s, mention that they have or anything like that, there’s still this foundational principle of who they are. Yeah, and I think to continue to honor that is really important. Isn’t absolutely critical? You know, there’s a famous quote and I’m sure everybody knows is people may not remember what you said, but they remember how you make them feel, and that’s part of our souls right. That’s part of spirituality and that that spirtual wellness as well. So to to know me, as to love me, when you get to know me and the things that that I like. Ice Cream, for instance, we have a resident who loves, who loves, chocolate ice cream, and so we always look for ways to make that happen for them. And sometimes if we run out of, you know, chocolate ice cream, can we make can we run to the store get chocolate ice cream for this particular rest and because that’s what they love? Or can we make it by adding chocolate syrup on top of the Ice Cream? Yes, we’ll find aware. Our answer is always going to be yes. But when you get to know me, you get to love me as an individual, you get to appreciate my troubles, Huddr relations. Yeah, are resins. You know what my my ninety five year old resident experience in her life is not that much different from what I’m experiencing in my life, you know, from love, from from relationships, from starting a new jobs, starting a new career or, you know, buying a new house, doing an emotional change or financial change. We’re not that far apart here, and so when we get to know each other, we get to appreciate each other and when we look at spiritual wellness, you know, being able to allow our resins to be their individual unique sums. Wow, yeah, wow, and to be open to experiencing new perspectives, I think is important, and certainly to honor those paths where they are. And I mean I think about so many of us, you know. I think about what our veterans and experience, you know, and I know you have pretty large that’s a populated yeah, and one of the things I think that’s really interesting about this whole thing is that they have experienced none of us can even imagine. Can’t imagine, and yet at the core of who they are there’s there’s a lot of things that may be suppressed, maybe covered up because of those experiences, and to find a way to kind of enter that world a little bit and appreciate their proposes. I think it’s a big part of it is that one hundred percent. It is and and again that to love me us to know me. The is what helps us burge that gap and help us allow to better community and provide the best ultimate care for our residents on a daily basis. And so, to each and everyone of you, Alana and I are back with three more foundational principles around us. Right afterness, we it answers for elders. Thank you for listening. Did you know that you can discover hundreds of podcasts in our library on seeing your care? So visit our website and discover our decision guides that will help you also navigate decision making. Find US AT ANSWERS FOR ALDERS DOCUMENT