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Day 247 – Loving Friendship
There are those who believe that our role in such situations is to be presence, but to understand that we cannot take the suffering away, we can only make it a bit more tolerable. Continue reading
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Day 246 – The Wisdom of Saint John
Love drives away fear. Without Love, we are continuously vulnerable to fear’s dragon fire. Continue reading
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Day 238 – The Source of Stress
One of the most potentially useful insights shared in these pages in the past is a bit of wisdom that goes like this: Stress arises primarily from our efforts to control the behavior of others. For caregivers and leaders… Continue reading
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Day 233 – Light Inside Pain
The words “gift” does not usually appear as a compliment to darkness. Yet caregivers understand this. Continue reading
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Day 217 – Caregiver Creativity
Exceptional caregivers tune their hearts to the pain of their patients. They follow up by releasing their “contained fire” where it is needed. Continue reading
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Days 214-216 – Daughters & Caregivers
All the characteristics we would want in our own caregiver are present with our daughter as she expresses her love to her child. Continue reading
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Day 205 – Hiding Places
Presence is so important in the lives of caregivers that those who practice it with intensity may feel the need to escape sometimes – to hide, to rest. Continue reading
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Days 203 & 204 – The Language Outside Language
Caregivers help heal pain through an unseen pathway we describe with a word: empathy. Patients in pain understand the gift of empathy. Continue reading
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Day 198 – How Friendship Heals
Eliot had a sweet understanding of the power of friendship and, important for us, she had the gift for how to express it! Eliot’s writing must have been very healing for her. Continue reading
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Day 196 – Wounds
Lovers cancel tears with tender eyes & skilled hands. But, wounds always scar Continue reading
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