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Our Beliefs are like Addictions

By Gail Mitchell
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

It is important to take responsibility and know that the quality of our lives is determined by our attitudes and choices. Read more about how to overcome negativism.

Caregiver Guilt

By Dorothy Womack
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

The role of a caregiver is usually followed by varying degrees of guilt. An examination of the grief process following a loved ones death.

The Dali Lama in Central Park

By Gail Mitchell
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Death and Dying
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

“All people of the universe have the potential to be what they truly would hope to be. Human potential knows no limits and we are all gifted with this potential.” The Dali Lama enables further reflection on this statement and its meaning for caregivers.

“Grief, Mourning, and Guilt”

By Lincoln/Greater Nebraska Chapter of the Alzheimers Association
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Long Term Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

It is common for both the impaired person and the caregiver to experience feelings of loss, grieving, denial, anger, guilt, physical symptoms and eventually acceptance.

The Nature of Suffering and the Nature of Opportunity at the End of Life

By Ira R. Byock M.D.
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Workplace - Employment Issues

Issues of care-giving by physicions. Education in med schools nowadays lacks emphasis on how to take care of a patient during terminal phases of illness. How human suffering is aliviated by doctors and healers.

The Nature Of Loss – Excerpt -Chapter 6

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Wellness

Discussion of self-transformation during caring for the loved one and after the loved one is lost. Open your heart and enter a peaceable place ready to face your suffering and accept love.

A Lesson in Trust and Faith

By Gail Mitchell
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

Through her experience with her beloved pet, Magi, the author learned lessons in trust and faith in addition to some alternative medicine treatments for both animals and humans.

Stress Of Caregiving Affects Immune System Functioning

By Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • Research

The chronic stress of caring for an ailing loved one can reduce the body’s ability to fight off illness. Read more about the results of this research study, as summarized from the professional journal, Psychosomatic Medicine.

Awakening The Heart

By Beth Witrogen McLeod
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

Every day gives abundant opportunity to decide whether to be a victim or to embrace the world. We all suffer one way or another, yet the fires of hell can ignite the heart. And once love is sparked, although its constancy may ebb and flow, it can never di

Negative Or Positive Choices

By Gail Mitchell
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

As caregivers we sometimes encounter feelings of negativity, such as resentment, hate, anger or even fear. We might even experience mixed feelings bouncing back and forth from a negative to a positive. Here are ways of turning the negative to a positive.

Being a Supportive Friend To a Grieving Person

By North Central Florida Hospice, Inc.
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Support Groups

North Central Florida Hospice, Inc. makes wonderful, extensive suggestions on how to be supportive to a friend who is grieving.

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