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The ability to heal is not reserved for a gifted few. Anyone aching to ease the suffering of a sick friend or loved one can learn to become unconditionally present to the sick person rather than to the disease. Through stories filled with compassion, wisdom, and gentle humor, Dr. Jeff Kane shows readers how to use mindful attention, therapeutic listening, and truthful speech to help others heal.

Diese Übung ist gut einzusetzen bei Ereignissen und in Situationen im Leben, die Trauerreaktionen auslösen können. Das kann sowohl Trauer um einen Menschen sein oder auch Trauer beim Verlust von Gesundheit, Arbeit, Freunden oder anderem. Also in Lebenssituationen, wo ein Verlust meist eine traurige, hoffnungslose oder traumatisch - lähmende Gefühlssituation hervorruft. Auch die Corona Pandemie hat in vielen Menschen Hoffnungslosigkeit, Ängste und traurige Gefühle ausgelöst oder verstärkt.

We all experience hurts, especially early in our lives, that cause us to adapt for protection and emotional survival: that create our unconscious “shadows.” Yet the tendency in our culture is to suppress or ignore pain, which only fuels our shadows’ needs for domination or victimization. In this book, Pixie encourages us to shift perspective, and to see our shadows as frightened inner children, desperate to even out the imbalances of our developmental years.

After the loss of a loved one, once the services are over and the relatives and friends have gone home, we are left to enter a strange new land, where someone who has given meaning to our life is gone. Drawing on her own experience as well as that of others, author Martha Whitmore Hickman presents a year's worth of meditations for people dealing with this profound loss, offering solace and illuminating a way forward. From January 1 to December 31, each day's meditation considers a meaningful quotation or passage on grief or suffering....

The author of How to Know God provides help for healing deep trauma—whenever it arises—so we may find peace in ourselves and in our world. Terror came from the sky, and afterward the world would never be the same. September, 11, 2001, defined tragedy for a generation. On that day Deepak...

Trauma following automobile accidents can persist for weeks, months, or longer. Symptoms include nervousness, sleep disorders, loss of appetite, and sexual dysfunction. In Crash Course, Diane Poole Heller and Laurence Heller take readers through a series of case histories and exercises to...

IT ALL RESTS ON A STORY. THIS IS ONE YOU WON'T FORGET. In these pages, Dr Suzanne Crowe opens the doors to a world few ever see: the charged and fragile realm of paediatric intensive care. From her earliest days as a junior doctor to becoming one of Ireland's leading specialists, she shares...

Whether you're currently caring for someone, or you are expecting to in the future, Next of Kin is the practical, compassionate resource you need. This essential guide will show you how to move forward with kindness and strength–for others and yourself–and will inspire you to step up to the plate when someone you love needs you.

Reframe your story—and reclaim your life—through writing and storytelling in this “invaluable guide” (Danielle Ofri, MD, PHD, author of What Doctors Feel). A Harvard-trained doctor draws on narrative therapy and her own multiple sclerosis diagnosis to offer chronic illness patients a way...

The Wound Makes the Medicine is Lighthorse’s deepest and most personal work yet. A series of healing remedies in thought and prose, the book centers on the internal challenges of suffering and offers affirmations for being with pain rather than avoiding it. The Wound Makes the Medicine helps create conditions for change within, without forcing or expecting transformation.

Ces textes méditatifs et réflexifs passent en effet par le prisme de la beauté évocatrice des mots pour soigner les vivants confrontés à l'épreuve du deuil : il s'agit d'apprendre à inventer des liens avec le défunt et de continuer à vivre. Sont parcourues, quasi chronologiquement et en cohérence, une panoplie de situations et de circonstances par une adresse directe au défunt ou à Dieu : les émotions qui jalonnent les étapes du deuil, les vertus des larmes, la nécessaire solitude, le pouvoir du temps, la spiritualité, la finitude.

Una persona sufre en promedio quince pérdidas importantes a lo largo de su vida. La muerte siempre ha sido nuestra mayor certeza, aunque nos empeñemos en rechazarla o si quiera mencionarla. Este libro nos invita a aceptarla como lo que es: parte de la vida. Pues ambas, la vida y la muerte, son caras de una misma moneda. Y al entenderlo así estaremos en capacidad de vivir con mayor intensidad y valorar cada instante de nuestro presente, que es la única realidad que existe.

For readers of Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee--a timely, vital exploration of the burnout, grief, depression, and trauma that America’s healthcare system engenders among doctors, nurses, and medical workers. Practicing medicine is traumatic: coping with the death of a patient, sharing a...

"Ein paar Jahre werden Sie schon noch leben!" - wie der Autor mit dieser Diagnose umging Im Alter von 26 Jahren wurde Helmut Retzl mit einer schockierenden Diagnose konfrontiert, die ihn aus seinen Lebensträumen riss: ein schwerer Fall von Multipler Sklerose - keine Chance auf Heilung und nur mehr wenig Lebenszeit. Zum ersten Mal traf Helmut Retzl auf das Phänomen "unheilbar". Heute ist der Autor 57 und fühlt sich wie neugeboren. Helmut Retzl ist kein Vertreter einer neuen Heilslehre und kein Wunderguru, doch er hat nie aufgegeben und sich nie aufgeben lassen.

In the widening grey zone between life and death, doctors fight with doctors, families feel pressured to make tough decisions about their loved ones and lawyers are left to argue life-and-death cases in the courts. Meanwhile, intensive care patients are caught in purgatory, attached to machines and unable to speak for themselves. In Death Interrupted, Dr Blair Bigham seeks to help listeners understand the options facing them at the end of their lives.

We plan, as the old proverb says, and God laughs. But most of us don't find it all that funny when things go wrong. Most of us want love, a nice home, good work and happy children. Many of us grew up with parents who made these things look relatively easy and assumed we would get them, too. So what do you do if you don't? What do you do when you feel you've messed it all up and your friends seem to be doing just fine? For Christina Patterson, it was her job as a journalist that kept her going through the ups and downs of life. And then she lost that, too.

Every doctor is haunted by memories of difficult patients. People whom, despite all of their patience and persistence and the best communication, diagnostic and reasoning skills, they haven't helped. And anyone who has been a patient will tell you about encounters with difficult doctors, of relationships freighted with mutual bafflement, hostility and pain. Despite its vast resources, medicine is so often destined to fail people. Written by a practising GP, this book is told through stories of Dr Peter Dorward's hardest cases.

In his exceptionally thought-provoking and moving memoir, neurosurgeon Joseph D. Stern explores how personal loss influences the way physicians relate to patients and their families.

Karen Johnson's fast-paced professional life came to an abrupt halt when she lost her twenty-seven-year-old son to a heroin overdose. Rather than grieve in a way that made people around her comfortable, she did the unexpected. She retired, sold her house and all her household goods, and went on...

Un avvincente Seminario, in cui grandiosi miti d'Oriente e d'Occidente ci parlano con tutto il loro illuminante potere immaginativo. Ci insegnano il perché di nascita e morte. Prometeo e Hiranyakashipur: cosa li accomuna? Entrambi scardinano l'ordine cosmico, entrambi nel tentativo di scampare alla morte. Ma la morte ha la sua funzione nel progetto universale, tanto che possiamo affermare che, senza capire la morte, non possiamo capire la vita. Senza comprendere l'utilità della morte ai fini della nostra evoluzione, saremo come tanti Prometeo e Hiranyakashipur.