Self Reflection Paper

Helping my brother solidified my commitment to helping others. In order to live a worthy life, I will always opt to be a compassionate person, even if it is difficult. I am glad I put my family first, and I will always do the same in the future. I know that medical school and residency will be a long and difficult road, but the only meaningful life I can live is one where I am improving the lives of

My parents influence a large portion of what I define myself as. They provide constant guidance and advice whenever I am around them, as well as when I am away. By taking what I have observed from them and what they say, I can create a lifestyle for myself based upon that knowledge.

She had incredible limited motion so me and her boyfriend at the time had to help her into a seat in the bathtub and help her bathe. It was an unmistakeable role reversal. I was so unnerving seeing my mom is such a weak position. Seeing your mother go through something like this is incredibly heart breaking. We all feel as if our parents are invincible superheroes and bearing witness to this process was very humanizing. Especially when we are younger, our parents are our idols. They are our entire world. Faced with this situation, I was forced to imagine a world without my mother.

Despite this, I have still felt the impact and burden that a sudden illness or injury places on a family. When I was in ninth grade, my father was in a severe accident work, turning a seemingly temporary condition into a permanent disability. Our family lost a primary source of income, and financial burdens rested on my mother’s shoulders. To help out with our expenses, my brother and I both got jobs at a local grocery store as soon as we turned 15. I took care of my expenses, and my mother handled the rest. Although I had to balance work, school, extracurriculars, and helping care for my dad, we found a rhythm and took this hardship in stride. Just three years later, my mother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis after a frightening period of four weeks where doctors could not identify a source for her symptoms. Having two parents with chronic illnesses was and still is a great source of stress and tension in my life, but as I have experienced my family’s financial hardship, I have developed a passion for working with socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. I am better able to empathize with other individuals who are fighting health ailments on their own or caring for a family member. I can show compassion for my future patients as their physician, health educator, and

I started out my session making some small talk with my client, Shaindy. We discussed how things went the previous week and what we’re looking forward to accomplish in the upcoming week.

“The only limitations you ever have in life are the ones you put in your mind.” This quote by Napoleon Hill changed the way I have faced various obstacles and is one that I carry in my thoughts. It serves as a vivid reminder not give up at first glance or allow others negativity and limitations to steer my path. Instead, I learned to keep moving forward to surpass even my expectations and achieve what people believe to be impossible. Looking back at all my experiences, the goals I have accomplished and the lessons I have learned otherwise, I realize that many were thought to have been out of reach. Furthermore, I've been put down by others saying it would require more effort than I could provide, discouraging me from even attempting. However, when put through adversity and challenging situations, I was able to commit to a life-changing decision that has altered my life into something I never thought possible.

One women I was helping out, Molly, had alzheimer's disease. Since her admittance into the home a year earlier her family has only made four visits to see her. When I had learned this I felt obligated to be there for her, and to fill the emotional void her absent family left.

This single experience is what has led me to the medical field. Since then I have had a strong desire to help others and put their needs before mine, to help those who are incapable of helping themselves. All it took was

When I came out to my mom I was feeling anxious and scared. She took it badly and scheduled an appointment for us to see a therapist to try and fix me . My family is catholic and believes who I am is a sin. I was misunderstood and judged for my actions and embracing who I was. I was still trying to process in a way to find happiness through all this. I wanted to express myself through fashion,hairstyle,sexual orientation. My community that identify myself with is the lgbt group. What connects me to this community is their diversity of sexual orientation,race/ethnicty, age. I believe that the community I am apart of encourages my individuality because I can count on support from this community with guidance. It has helped me to accept myself and to build confidence also to have a relationship with friends,family. For an example, My high school I went to encouraged me to be openly and diverse with the gay community. I developed friendships with people who supported and accepted me for who I am. Another example, I become closer with my cousin who was also gay. She helped me advice of how to communicate with my parents, to not be ashamed of the way I expressed myself, to stand up for myself.

By the time you turn 18 and move to college, you think you know yourself pretty well. Taking the StrengthsFinder Quiz presented me confirmation of some things I saw in myself before and brought an aspect out that I hadn’t recognized before. The five themes I was said to exemplify most are belief, relator, harmony, empathy, and connectedness. Having belief represents being driven by my beliefs and rarely stray from them as they serve as my purpose in life. Relator means I appreciate having very close relationships with a small group of. Harmony stands for my dislike of conflict. Having empathy means I am aware of other people’s emotional state and try to relate to them. Lastly, connectedness states that I believe everything happens for a reason. According to this quiz, these are my five strongest traits and the people I love most seem to agree with me in our reactions to them.

“Teamwork makes the DREAM work” is the motto that Raquel Tellez, Service Chief II for the Community Counseling and Supportive Services a Prevention and Early Invention program within Behavioral Health Services (BHS), lives out every day with her team at the clinic and with her approach to client care.

I am now approaching the conclusion of my college career and starting to adjust to work life. This is a period of self-reflection and an attempt to put everything I learned into perspective. During this period of my life, I have been constantly thinking and contemplating my future. I feel very anxious yet nervous during this time while I am adjusting to this new stage of my life. When I was in High school my life was very structured, because I could be very dependent on peoples help and I obviously still lived with my family. When I went to college, I had to break away from that feeling of dependency and start the adjusting to adulthood. In college there was more responsibility and I started to become more independent. This was a crucial step in my life but choosing a career is going to be an even bigger step. It is a bigger step because; I have to start structuring my career goals and family goal for the future. At this moment all I can think about is my career, and how I can I keep improving myself for work life.

I am Hoang Le Tri Cuong. I am a scholar who is studying at Saint Joseph's Institution (SJI).

Self! “Self is an ever changing system of perspectives that are formed and sustained in communication with others and ourselves.” (p.174) As I typed in “self” in the Google search engine what stood out to me the most was a quote by Buddha that goes, “you, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserves your love and affection.” On the first day you are born you, yourself is a individual who is living life to obtain a personal identity with no clue to who or what you may transpire to be. In the Communication Mosaics the 8th edition, it emphasizes the self as being dynamic, and concludes that every individual evolves and change throughout their lifetime. Through my studies of communication I have fondly realized how significant

Out of all of the topics that we went over in over the course of the Sister to Sister class, the one that resonated with and still resonates with me the most would have to be the theme of self. This is simply because you cannot even begin to form a sense of community or delve into higher education successfully without a keen awareness of self. This phenomenon is stated beautifully with, “an ongoing commitment to developing the self is paramount to the establishment of an identity that is centered and grounded” (King, T. C., & Ferguson, S. A 2). The ongoing aspects of this are stressed because as people, we are continuously changing, meaning that we need to be constantly in tune with our self and making sure that we are going about life in