Radical Loving Care
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Days 220-221 Would You Bring Dirty Dishes?
“When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces… Continue reading
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Days 215-219 – Caring for the Caregiver’s Soul
Caregiving is a matter of soul as well as body. We are all caregivers or in need of one – or, importantly, both. The finest tonic for the caregiver’s soul is the belief that their healing work is meaningful. Repetition and… Continue reading
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Days 201-205- Heart Sweeping
Are we more loving than we were ten years ago? Can we sweep regrets & impatience from our hearts or are we hostages to the shifting sands of brain chemistry? Continue reading
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Days 173-177 – Midnight Friends
Who are your middle-of-the-night friends – people you can count on no matter what? To whom are you such a friend? Continue reading
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Days 139-143 – America’s Newest Healing Hospital – Bingham Memorial
Few hospitals deliver healing as well as curing. Bingham Memorial Hospital has recently become Healing Hospital Certified as a place that offers both. Continue reading
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Days 102-106 – Symbols of Love
Joseph Campbell defined a symbol as “an energy evoking, and directing, agent.” Hospitals & hospices signal anxiety. The right symbols help Compassion defeat Fear opening the door to healing. Continue reading
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Days 100-101: Kindness
"No act of kindness no matter how small…is ever wasted." -Aesop An empathetic gesture, a word of caring or a random act of kindness can awaken one's heart. These experiences evoke a metamorphosis of sorts. Yet it is a very private experience,… Continue reading
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Days 94-99 – “Just a bunch of rocks”
Words matter. Seeing a beach as “just sand” blocks Beauty’s embrace. Caregivers who label patients cannot heal. Compassionate language helps caregivers become healers. Continue reading
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Days 346-350 – Saving A Child
Yvan was born with a death sentence. His crime? Club feet. American children receive love & treatment. In Yvan’s Ivory Coast village the tradition is to kill “disfigured” children. That was Yvan’s fate until he found a pair of angels. Continue reading
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