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Healing Myself – Reclaiming My Life

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

The author describes how she hit bottom from caregiving without knowing how the stresses had taken hold of her. She shares how she begins her healing process and reclaims her life.

How Caregivers Can Use Music That Heals

By James Schaller
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • End-of-Life-Hospice - Palliative Care

This article describes how informal family caregivers, volunteer and professional caregivers can use therapeutic music to relieve pain and anxiety in patients of all ages and support healing.

Autumn reminds me of the eternality of life

By Alan Cohen
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

The author discusses how the power of love helps you search for who you are and to understand what is right in your life, instead of trying to figure out what is wrong with it and how you can correct it.

Beggars and Choosers

By Alan Cohen
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

The author persuades us to make decisions and follow our hearts. Only when you are true to yourself you will be happy.

Get Up and Leave

By Alan Cohen
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

The author persuades us to leave the unhappy medium of our existence and go into the medium where your heart feels right and where you will be able to enrich others with the love and kindness that comes from within your heart.

What State Are You From?

By Harvey Cohen
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

Harvey explains that all of us are “made of 100% pure God” and that everything we need to be happy is inside us from the time we are born.

Positive Energy: The Tenth Prescription: Revel in Laughter, Play, and All-Out Silliness

By Judith Orloff M.D.
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

Dr. Judith Orloff persuades us to laugh as much as we can in order to free ourselves from negative emotions. She provides ways to “energetically nurture your inner child and to laugh more”.

Caregiving Raises Risk Of Heart Disease In Women

By Health Behavior News Service
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Accoring to a new study, women who spend nine or more hours a week caring for an ill or disabled spouse have an increased risk of coronary heart disease.

The Many Challenges of Sundowning

By Starr Calo-oy
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Eldercare
  • Homecare - Home Health Care
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

This article answers the questions: 1) What is sundowning? 2) What causes sundowning? 3) How can I lessen the symptoms of sundowning for my loved one?

Positive Energy: How to Build Vitality And Stop Energy Vampires From Draining You

By Judith Orloff M.D.
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Wellness

Dr. Orloff discusses how do you know if you are an empath? What are the signs? Protect yourself and with strategies be able to deal with loved ones who may be sapping your energies.

“They Were Never Defeated, Only Killed”

By Mary C. Fridley RN, BC
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Wellness

The author did a web search for information on the French Foreign Legion as a result of this quote. What she discovered were some striking similarities between legionnaires and caregivers.

Sitting Fit For Caregivers And Those They Care For

By Susan Winter Ward
  • Aging
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Disability - Accessability - Mobility
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Eldercare
  • Wellness

Nine 3-5 minute segments of seated stretching & deep breathing helps to maintain your strength & flexibility while relieving stress & tension from sitting too long, working non stop and worrying.

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