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10 Ways to Support an Ill or Injured Loved One

By Cindy Batchelor — 2018

Whether a permanent disability, a severe injury, an illness, or a mental health issue, an immobilizing condition can be emotionally devastating for the sufferer. Isolation can bleed into loneliness which can quickly turn into depression, all the while plummeting feelings of self-worth.

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It’s OK that You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that Doesn’t Understand

In It’s OK that You’re Not OK, Megan Devine offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we try to help others who have endured tragedy.

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Megan Devine
2017
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book

These intimate stories by cancer patients and their loved ones, medical professionals, and friends, are a must-read for anyone affected by cancer. Writers share all their experiences—from the initial diagnosis, to breaking the news to loved ones, to discussing the effect on home, school, and work.

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Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, David Tabatsky
2009
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The Way Toward Health

In The Way Toward Health, Jane’s husband, Robert Butts, shares with us the intimate story of Jane’s final days, and the exquisite teachings that Seth gave during that time.

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Jane Roberts
1997
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The Healing I Took Birth For: Practicing the Art of Compassion

For more than 32 years, Stephen and Ondrea Levine have provided emotional and spiritual support to those who face life-threatening illness and their caregivers; deeply affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the process.

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Ondrea Levine, Stephen Levine
2015
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The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship

In The Mastery of Love, don Miguel Ruiz illuminates the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering and drama in our relationships.

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don Miguel Ruiz
1999
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Spiritual Partnership: The Journey to Authentic Power

In his first major book since the legendary bestseller The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav reveals a revolutionary new path for spiritual growth.

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Gary Zukav
2011
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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
2001
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How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service

Not a day goes by without our being called upon to help one another--at home, at work, on the street, on the phone. . . . We do what we can.

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Ram Dass, Paul Gorman
1985
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Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them

Care of the Soul In Medicine is Moore’s manifesto about the future of healthcare. In this new vision of care, Moore speaks to the importance of healing a person rather than simply treating a body. He gives advice to both healthcare providers and patients for maintaining dignity and humanity.

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Thomas Moore
2011
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Marrow: Love, Loss, and What Matters Most

The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant—one the donor and one the recipient—begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most of all, love.

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Elizabeth Lesser
2017
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Handling a Loved One’s Illness