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Season 1, Episode 8: Caregiving during a Pandemic

Cancer Out Loud: The CancerCare Podcast

Caring for a loved one poses many unique challenges even without stay-at-home and social distancing guidelines. See more...

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Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

This beloved bestseller—over 180,000 copies sold—has helped caregivers worldwide keep themselves emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and physically healthy in the face of the sometimes overwhelming traumas they confront every day.

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Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk
2009
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The Caregiver’s Guide to Cancer: Compassionate Advice for Caring for You and Your Loved One

Looking after someone with cancer can be complex, overwhelming, and emotionally draining all at once. As a caregiver, you may also overlook your own well-being while you focus on your loved one.

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Victoria Landes
2021
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How to Manage Compassion Fatigue in Caregiving | Patricia Smith | TEDxSanJuanIsland

Caregivers are often so busy caring for others that they tend to neglect their own emotional, physical, and spiritual health. Studies confirm that caregivers play host to a high level of compassion fatigue.

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2017
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When and How to Ask for Help

The best ways to ask for help as a caregiver.

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2020
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Caregiver Stress: Tips for Taking Care of Yourself

Caring for a loved one strains even the most resilient people. If you’re a caregiver, take steps to preserve your own health and well-being.

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Mayo Clinic Staff
2020
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Help When Your Heart Breaks

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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Joan Halifax
2018
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The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals

Self-care is an imperative for the ethical practice of social work and other helping professions.

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Erlene Grise-Owens (editor), Justin “Jay” Miller (editor), Mindy Eaves (editor)
2016
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Things I Wish I’d Known: Cancer Caregivers Speak Out

Nearly three-quarters of American households will find themselves caring for a cancer patient at one point in their lives. Based on formal interviews with nonprofessional caregivers, this book is the first to capture their thoughts, feelings, and insights on a large scale.

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Deborah J. Cornwall
2016
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Compassion Fatigue: What Is It and Do You Have It? | Juliette Watt | TEDxFargo

In this compelling talk, Juliette introduces us to “Compassion Fatigue.” A hugely pervasive syndrome that not only affects people like professional caregivers but also most of us one way or another.

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2018
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Drowning in Empathy: The Cost of Vicarious Trauma | Amy Cunningham | TEDxSanAntonio

Caregivers and emergency responders are empathetic individuals who risk suffering from Compassion Fatigue, a form of PTSD that is treatable using the steps described in Amy’s presentation.

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2016
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