Here at Live Well Wakefield we run courses and workshops to help people take control of their long-term health condition.
We do this by learning tools and techniques to Self-manage the symptoms and effects that our health condition has on us daily. By using these tools and techniques we put you in control of your health, rather than the endless cycle of emotional and physical symptoms controlling you.
These tools and techniques include Problem Solving, Decision Making, 'Using the Mind to Manage your symptoms', relaxation techniques and communication to name but a few. They are lay-led by people who have been fully-trained to exceptional standards but who also have a long-term health conditions and understand the 'roller coaster' that having such a condition can have on your day-to-day life.
The aim is that when your Doctor, Nurse or Healthcare Team are not available, you are not dragged into the endless cycle of fear, pain, frustration, anger, guilt and all the other associated symptoms that you may feel.
The courses and workshops are free and provided around Wakefield and the Five Towns areas.