A Hospice Chaplain's Fieldguide to Caregiving: Finding Resilience on the Frontlines of Love - Couverture souple

Hager, EM

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1882807049 ISBN 13 : 9781882807048

Editeur : Zip Sisters Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Could your caregiving be easier? It’s a lot just to keep your balance.
Shift to healthier with these bite-sized, wise and funny gifts. They are friendly, concise and even a bit humorous, (because you have enough serious in your life…). This lived wisdom offers thoughtful and practical ways to keep your internal balance while building more resilience, not less.

Play a little more... It's the responsible thing to do because it makes your caring more sustainable.
Resilience is why the Field Guide was created because caring, and caring for others, changes the planet. HOW we do it matters.

Grab and Go inspiration in bite-sized pieces.
Written with both the cred of a solo daughter in the trenches, and the perspective of a hospice chaplain...with just enough humor to make a better day. That's enough. A better day is enough...for both of you to get through this. It's not easy, but in the end, it is about lives well lived...and that, my friend, is about bouncing well.

Resilience in the trenches of love is the goal for which the Field Guide was created because caregiving– your efforts here–change everything.

You don’t have to be a perfect caregiver. In fact, it gets in the way.
Caregiving changes the planet but it also changes us—teaching some tough and tender lessons.

Written with the cred of both a daughter's lived wisdom... and a working hospice chaplain.
It takes a lot to just show up in the caregiving of an aging parent or any loved one. This is messy work and inherently possesses minefields of unresolved stuff. (Stuff being a technical term for stories that got baked in deep before we knew we were in an oven.)

Inside-out survival that is both practical and doable.
These thirty-one notions are gifts to you for growing a good life–even in the confusing soils of caregiving.

Caregiving is love’s race. And that is the miracle…of taking care.
This book is about those more balanced, better, and more satisfying choices.

• Choose EASIER.
• Get RESILIENT.
• Make a BETTER day.

REVIEWS of the Field Guide
"I started reading your book ...and was hooked by the end of
chapter one. An informative, compassionate read by someone
who has walked the walk." – Barbara Karnes, RN, author of Gone from My Sight ('the little blue book)

"Read it all night. It was funny and useful." - A.W., New York

"This was a great read with a hearty dose of humor." - D.S., Chicago

"This book is awesome and very relevant!! I have shared it
with our Hospice/Palliative Care team." - L.H.R, Milwaukee

"I don't know whether it is poetry or prose, but I laughed and loved this book.
It helps me face another day of watching over my parents with renewed purpose." - B. K. Austin, Texas

"EM Hager has created a book filled with insight, compassion, vulnerability and wisdom. It is well worth diving into.
Having assimilated this book, it is as though I, a 78 year old woman, have gained a loving supportive
wise older sister who I know will walk along side me as I care for a dying loved one and who will eventually travel with me to my own life conclusion.
This book is a great gift to me." - L.S., San Francisco

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

E.M. Hager has been shaped by both the Oklahoma prairie landscapes she has lived in, and by the leaping (or falling) off their edges: boom then bust, drought then flood, and the general human ups and downs of love and loss. When she finally reached home on the West Coast, she added San Francisco's (and Silicon Valley's) technological bubble-to-bust cycles to her resume. That learned resilience has taught her balance...and bounce in her three professions. The first as a Landscape Architect with a West Coast degree, she was licensed and practiced in five Southwestern and prairie states. The second grew from opportunities found after she moved to San Francisco and became the bootstrapped CEO of several, serial, digital mapping concerns on the edge between CD-Roms and the Internet. That ended with the bursting of many bubbles both personal and economic and an eleven-year caregiving journey of an elder began. She fell in love with her third profession, on the edge of a place where she never wanted to be-a place where no one wants to be. She became an Interfaith hospice chaplain and a support for caregivers everywhere. Her education taught her to design with living systems and now it frames her understanding at bedside about the nature of birth, life and death-as a dynamic process within the seasons of renewal. From this place and nature, she offers thirty-one practical gifts to support caregivers in the tough and tender places of love-the front lines of illness and health.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zip Sisters Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1882807049
• ISBN 13: 9781882807048
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg