I empower families with special needs children to take control of their physical, mental and emotional health with personali
Sherri Bond Nurse Coach
My Approach
I help you identify and address limiting beliefs, cultivate positive thought patterns, and develop resilience in order to overcome obstacles. I integrate principles of nursing care with coaching methodologies to empower you to make sustainable lifestyle changes and achieve optimal physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
HeartSong Creation
My signature program.It is a 12 week deep work program tp begin living your life in alignment with your values, conciously aligning your actions, decisions and behaviors with principles and beliefs that matter most to you
My Story
The breaking point
I was overwhelmed, stressed and exhausted. My kids needed more than I could give them.My cup was empty. I didn't even know who I was anymore.I was a 57 year old single mom, I had already raised 3 kids to adulthood, and now here I am with 2 preteens each with their own special needsand I was in burnout.
HistoryI have been a pediatric nurse for 35 years. Most of it in the NICU, taking care of the smallest and sickest newborns. I also did pediatric home care. Then, for seven years I fostered medically fragile babies, until I ended with adopting 2 of them. Daniel was born at 25 weeks and was a pound and a half. I met him when he was 14 months old and finally ready to go home from the hospital. He had just about every complication a micro- premie could have, Multiple episodes on NEC necessitating multiple abdominal surgeries, a brain bleed, tracheostomy and dependence on a ventilator, and a g button for feeding intolerance. He was given a poor prognosis which his parents couldn't handle and they did not visit with him in the hospital or learn to care for him. Meanwhile, his parents had another child, born at 31 weeks. who actually came home to my house before Daniel did. I ended up adopting both of them and they are the loves of my life!!They are the reason I live. And they are the reason I have had to learn to care for myself and fill my own cup so I can fill theirs.
Alex came home just before Halloween, Daniel came home a week before Christmas. I had pleaded for them to let him come home before Christmas because he was still weaning off of methodone (he had been on morphine due to long term intubation before he got his trach. He came home with a ventillator, trach, G button and a long list of diagnoses and medications. At first, there is lots of help and support. Nurses, therapists, constant doctor appointments. There is ECI, then school starting at age 3. Elementary teachers love him and send pictures and cute art projects home. There is Sunday school at church and a special VBS in the summer.But by middle school, the kids are bigger, they have outgrown their cute baby faces, teachers no longer send home notes and pictures. Daniel's phycial health had greatly improved and he only had a G button . But the gap between his abilities and his peers had greatly increased. Daniel has not had nurses for several years now, and has outgrown Easter egg hunts and VBS. Alex, meanwhile has been struggling with anxiety, school difficulties and ADHD. The kids and I were all dealing with isolation,and a lack of friends,we were living paycheck to paycheck on my school nurse salary.And both kids were getting increasingly behind their peers at school.
I needed something to change. I couldn't do it anymore. I discovered the change had to be in me. I had to take back control of my life and stop letting life control me. I discovered the works of Byron Katie, Werner Earhart and Steve Hardison. I became friends with the most beautiful and loving group of individuals I have ever met. With the help of my coach Bina Bindale, I learned to love myself, how to be accountable to myself and how to fill my cup first so that I can fill theirs.
My children are the most important thing in the world to me and my job is to be the best person I can be to help them suceed in life. Daniel is my forever child. He will always need someone to support him. My long term goal is to create a living community for adults who need extra support for living so they can have a full and happy life. My goals in the meantime are to help other families like mine, who may have become so focused on the child with special needs that they have forgotten themselves, and are trying to give from an empty cup
.I empower families with special needs children to take control of their physical, mental and emotional health with personalized coaching.