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Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb: Love and Caregiving in a Time of AIDS

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By Charles Garfield, Cindy Spring, Doris Ober — 1997

Drawing on the real-life stories of twenty exemplary caregivers, Dr. Charles Garfield explains the widely used Shanti caregivers model he originated—and shows how to set limits, avoid burnout, accept gratitude, and grapple with issues of life and death when caring for people with HIV/AIDS.

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Overcoming Compassion Fatigue: A Practical Resilience Workbook

Those in the helping professions are constantly at risk of compassion fatigue, yet many have little guidance on how to deal with it effectively. A fresh workbook approach for compassion fatigue, burnout and stress, providing all the tools you need to leave work at work—and let it go.

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Strength for the Sandwich Generation: Help to Thrive While Simultaneously Caring for Our Kids and Our Aging Parents

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Building a Legacy of Love: Thriving in the Sandwich Generation

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The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery

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The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

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Jerome Groopman
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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being

“This book will help you flourish.” With this sentence, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years—and the first to present his dynamic new concept of what well-being really is.

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Martin E. P. Seligman
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Spontaneous Happiness: A New Path to Emotional Well-Being

Dr. Andrew Weil has proven that the best way to maintain optimum physical health is to draw on both conventional and alternative medicine. Now, in Spontaneous Happiness, he gives us the foundation for attaining and sustaining optimum emotional health. Rooted in Dr.

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Andrew Weil
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Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber

Here is a deeply moving account of a couple's struggle with cancer and their journey to spiritual healing. Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife Treya Killam Wilber through Treya's illness, treatment, and, finally, death.

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Ken Wilber
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