By Kate Washington — 2021
So what does help when a friend or family member is in the thick of caregiving, or any crisis?
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There’s a growing understanding—and resources—to allow us to take control of our minds and of our own well-being.
We all want more well-being in our lives.
As caregivers, we need to be more than problem solvers. We need to be portals to a larger possibility.
My hope is that the G.R.A.C.E. model will help you to actualize compassion in your own life and that the impact of this will ripple out to benefit the people with whom you interact each day as well as countless others.
Caring for people who are suffering is a loving, even heroic calling, but it takes a toll. Roshi Joan Halifax teaches this five-step program to care for yourself while caring for others.
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The truth is: Without a genuine willingness to let in the suffering of others, our spiritual practice remains empty.