By American Psychological Association
Mothers caring for both children and aging parents often feel overextended, but they can manage stress by identifying triggers, self-care, and asking for support.
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CLEAR ALL
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.
Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.
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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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