They were living the American Dream…then their dream became a nightmare!

The July’s want to help you and your loved one(s) LIVE life beyond illness!

Their story captures the devastation and pain chronic illness exacts on the patient and the caregiving spouse. The July’s lost everything but each other. They were torn from their dreams and thrust headlong into a fight for their lives with an illness that wrecked their plans, their finances, and ultimately became a battle for their souls. But they have learned how, not only to survive, but to have a life beyond illness.

Jamey Lacy July was struck down with a devastating illness right at the prime of her life.  She went from being an athlete, wellness expert, and speaker to living her life day to day.  William July is a nationally recognized author on four relationship books and has been interviewed on national TV and radio stations.

Together they fought to reconstruct their lives.

Their story amazed me when I first went to their website.  The strength still have and the love that they had for each other. Jamey during the show shares tips for the caregiver to take care of themselves, while she is the one with the chronic disease she recognized that her husband still needed to get out in the world and go to the gym, have time to rejuvenate his body and soul.

I know many people who are caregivers and see the strain it can have on a relationship if the caregiver does not take time out and get away from being a caregiver.  While we fight with the guilt of being able to go out and do things, or the guilt of leaving the person we are taking care of when they cannot get out and about themselves…we as caregivers do need to learn that in order to be the best we can we still need to allow ourselves time to be just that ourselves.

The July’s book “A Husband, A Wife, and An Illness-Living Life Beyond Chronic Illness” is one of the best books as it talks about both sides of the story. From the stand point of both the caregiver and the person who is chronically ill. The book is also set up with questions and an action plan at the end of each chapter that helps you think and process what they chapter was all about.
Purchase Book Here-A Husband, A Wife, & An Illness: Living Life Beyond Chronic Illness

For more information and to purchase their book go to http://www.CouplesFacingIllness.com

More about the July’s

Dr. William July

Dr. William July has a special interest in relationships and personality psychology. He is the author ofseveral books on relationships published by Doubleday, including a national bestseller. For titles, visit williamjuly.com. William regularly appears on CNN, the Fox News Channel, and other news networks providing insights on current issues. Also, he is the regularly featured relationship and personal coach for the Great Day Houston Show on KHOU (CBS). He writes a column for Our Texas magazine and has also been a columnist for Essence magazine. Dr. July is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Personality & Social Psychology, and the International Association for Relationship Research. In addition to his media work he has authored a chapter on personality psychology for a textbook published by Pearson, a leading academic publisher.

Jamey Lacy-July is a certified fitness specialist, former competitive athlete, and former fitness model. She established Houston’s first full-scale personal training and physical rehabilitation center. Jamey has frequently appeared on television and has been featured in magazines such as SHAPE and Muscle & Fitness. She has authored numerous articles and lectured nationally on topics of physical and spiritual wellness for organizations such as The Institute of Medicine and The Women’s Sports Foundation. Jamey is the subject of a t.v. interview that won Best Sports Story by the Associated Press.

Jamey Lacy July

As a consumer advocate Jamey has lobbied Congress to promote legislation for safer health issues for Americans. In A Husband, A Wife, & An Illness, Jamey’s voice reveals the irony and raw nature of her plight with a ravaging illness, while also offering helpful insights for surviving the critical phases of chronic diseases.

Photo of Jamey during early stage of illness, before onset of most severe symptoms.

Cal Orey author

Cal Orey author of The Healing Powers of Vinegar and the Healing Powers of Olive Oil will be on HYTR today. We will be discussing the many ways olive oil and vinegar can aid in self healing - i.e. Apple cider vinegar, taken regularly, can lower high blood pressure.

Olive oil has been used as a remarkable remedy for everything from health ailments to beauty and household uses and so much more. Now evidence shows that a diet based on olive oil can promote longer life and may even prevent some diseases linked with American diets. In The Healing Powers of Olive Oil: A Complete Guide to Nature’s Gold, health journalist Cal Orey describes the latest medical research from leading experts on the many benefits of olive oil such as:

Medical doctor; Clown; Performer; Social Activist; Founder and Director of the Gesundheit Institute, a holistic medical community that has provided free medical care to thousands of patients since it began in 1971; Author of Gesundheit! & House Calls; Moving Speaker.

Extraordinary! One man I can look up to and respect, Incredibly, mind blowing and memorable, and Incredibly inspiring, amazing human being, invaluable to hear him first hand …are among the words heard from participants’ after experiencing Patch Adams, the real person behind the hit movie Patch Adams, starring Robin Williams.

Patch is both a medical doctor and a clown…but he is also a social activist who has devoted 30 years to changing America’s healthcare system, a system which he describes as expensive and elitist.

He believes that laughter, joy and creativity are an integral part of the healing process and therefore true health care must incorporate such life. Doctors and patients in his model relate to each other on the basis of mutual trust, and patients receive plenty of time from their doctors. Allopathic doctors and practitioners of alternative medicine will work side by side. If you think that all sounds like a utopian impossibility, it isn’t. Patch and his colleagues practiced medicine at the Gesundheit Institute together in West Virgina that way for 12 years in what he calls their pilot project. They saw 15,000 patients. Patch Adams has devoted his life to the study of what makes people happy.

Through the success of this program at the Arlington, Virginia location, a model health care facility is being planned on 310 acres purchased in Pocahontas County, WV. The Institute will include a 40-bed hospital, a theater, arts and crafts shops, horticulture and vocational therapy. Over five years ago, Dr. Adams and staff temporarily stopped seeing patients so that they could coordinate plans for raising $5 Million needed for the Institute’s permanent and expanded home, a model health care community. Currently planned is an immediate phase of this dream, a $400,000 WV facility so that their medical service to patients can resume within the next two years.

The Institute addresses, by action, four major issues in health care delivery: the rising cost of care, dehumanization of medicine, malpractice suits, and abuses of third-party insurance system.

Dr. Patch Adams

Dr. Adams adds to his training as a physician, his experience as a street clown. In working with health and mental health professionals, he explores the relationship between humor and therapy using his unique blend of knowledge, showmanship and hands on teaching techniques. Says Dr. Adams, I interpret my experience in life as being happy. I want, as a doctor, to say it does matter to your health to be happy. It may be the most important health factor in your life.

Patch Adams, M.D., is a nationally known speaker on wellness, laughter, and humor as well as on health care and health care systems. He approaches the issues of personal, community, and global health with zestful exuberance, according to Time Magazine. Dr. Adams believes that the most revolutionary act one can commit in our world is to be happy.

Information from www.patchadams.org

“The most revolutionary act one can commit in our world is to be happy”-Dr. Patch Adams

Read article by Patch Adams “The Gesundheit! Hospital Project”

“What I learned from Patch Adams” -article by Rebekah White

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