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

by EM Hager

Overview

Might your caregiving be easier?  It's a lot just to keep your balance. Shift to healthier more resilient and less stressful ways of caregiving 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 friendly and practical ways to keep your internal balance while building more resilience, not less, more vitality and renewal.

A Hospice Chaplain's Field Guide to Caregiving is built from experience in the trenches of love. These thirty-one gifts are not tactical 'how-tos' but rather practical principles to support, renew, and strengthen you from the inside out when standing on the frontlines of illness and health with your loved ones. These gifts are bridges to your next right thing and assurance that joy will come around again...just as spring follows winter. They will help you make not just a better life for yourself, but better decisions that fit your family and situation.They are beautiful soil for growing a better day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781882807024
Publisher:	same as contact
Publication date:	11/23/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	188
File size:	385 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part One—The Frontlines Gift 1 Wait Here
2. Gift 2 Stay Full
3. Gift 3 Etak Compass
4. Gift 4 Diva Breathe
5. Gift 5 The Gratitude of Redwoods
6. Gift 6 Play Daily
7. Gift 7 Be Willing
8. Gift 8 Stop. Rest
9. Part Two—The Trenches Gift 9 Flash Light
10. Gift 10 Bounce Well
11. Gift 11 Mangia, Mangia
12. Gift 12 Bedrock Allowing
13. Gift 13 Lean Back
14. Gift 14 It Takes as Long as it Takes
15. Gift 15 Keep Moving
16. Gift 16 Do Bother
17. Gift 17 Cackle
18. Gift 18 Phoenix Carousel
19. Gift 19 Celebrate Inconvenience
20. Part Three—The Garden of Change Gift 20 Live Backwards, Remember Better
21. Gift 21 Mobius Regrets
22. Gift 22 Improv “What is”
23. Gift 23 Magic Mettle
24. Gift 24 Got Blessing?
25. Gift 25 Wild Within
26. Gift 26 Right Weeding
27. Gift 27 Joyous Wager
28. Gift 28 Be Curious
29. Gift 29 Unlearn Certainty
30. Gift 30 Feed Me Feedback
31. Gift 31 One Story
32. Epilog
33. girlQuantum: the memoir (upcoming)
34. Appendix
35. End Notes