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Meditation: The Key to Resilience in Caregiving

By Sharon Salzberg — 2010

Meditation broadens our perspective and deepens our courage. The spaciousness of mind and greater ease of heart that arise through balanced awareness and compassion are fundamental components of a resilient spirit.

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Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So, it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions.

Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson

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Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta

During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the dying, and thousands of others nobody else was prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed...

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Why Might Good People Deliver Bad Care? | Yvonne Sawbridge | TEDxUniversityofBirmingham

Yvonne Sawbridge says that caring professionals offer hard, emotional work. In the same way in which physical labour is recognised and accounted for in management practice, emotional labour needs to be recognised as a role requirement for nurses and other caring professions.

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Developing Self Compassion (Guided Meditation) - Professor Paul Gilbert

This video features a short guided meditation from the Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy - Professor Paul Gilbert.

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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level.

Daniel Goleman, Richard J. Davidson

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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

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Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World

In this daring, inspirational book, Lizzie reveals the hidden forces that give rise to self-doubt, and empowers us to unlock empathy and kindness for ourselves and others.

Lizzie Velasquez, Catherine Avril Morris

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The Paradox of Vulnerability | Frank Ostaseski with Courtney E. Martin

A foundational voice in end of life care, Frank Ostaseski, shares how his series of recent strokes and the sudden switch in roles from caregiver to care-receiver have deepened his understanding of the surprising ways vulnerability can unlock personal resilience and cultivate compassion for oneself...

Frank Ostaseski

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Joseph Goldstein: Wisdom for Troubled Times

For many of us, the current environment, magnified by 24-hour news outlets and social media, has created a level of stress, fear and anger that impacts our lives and relationships.

Joseph Goldstein

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A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times

When the path ahead is dark, how can we keep from stumbling? How do we make our way with courage and dignity? “Inside each of us is an eternal light that I call ‘the One Who Knows,’ ” writes Jack Kornfield.

Jack Kornfield, Jon Kabat-Zinn (foreword)

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