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When Your Child Is Diagnosed with Chronic Illness

By Teri L. Bourdeau — 2013

Learn how to cope, manage your emotions and keep stress in check when a child is diagnosed with chronic illness.

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Advice on Dire Diagnoses From a Survivor

With each diagnosis, knowing her life hung in the balance, she was “stunned, then anguished” and astonished by “how much energy it takes to get from the bad news to actually starting on the return path to health.”

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Caring for Family, Caring for Yourself

Whether you choose to be a family caregiver or the job is thrust upon you by circumstances, your most important responsibility beyond caring for your ill or disabled relative is caring for yourself.

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Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This

It’s not easy to let our kids be less than perfect.

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The Pain of Caregiving and the Privilege of Suffering

It is essential for those in caregiving roles to cultivate self-compassion alongside compassion for others, to create an inner atmosphere of kindness, expansiveness, and awareness in which resilience can flourish.

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