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Learning to Serve the Dying

By Gatwiri Muthara — 2019

End-of-life doulas provide a new type of caregiving to patients and families.

Read on www.aarp.org

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No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

With hard-won wisdom and refreshing insight, Thich Nhat Hanh confronts a subject that has been contemplated by Buddhist monks and nuns for twenty-five-hundred years—and a question that has been pondered by almost anyone who has ever lived: What is death? In No Death, No Fear, the acclaimed teacher...

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition

We all face death, but how many of us are actually ready for it? Whether our own death or that of a loved one comes first, how prepared are we, spiritually or practically? In Preparing to Die, Andrew Holecek presents a wide array of resources to help the reader address this unfinished business.

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The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor

When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine.

Arthur Kleinman

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Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Interviews Dying Patients

Though Elisabeth is often described as the “death and dying lady” or the “creator of the Five Stages of Grief®” she often referred to herself as the “life and living lady”.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles...

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions—and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time.

Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, Marsha M. Linehan

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Emotional Complications of Breast Cancer by Janet Harrison. (Especially Anger, Distress, and Asking for Help.)

Janet talks about feeling angry, feeling lost in the system, feeling isolated after initial treatment. Janet mentions benefits of psycho-oncology team (psychosocial care), voluntary services at Coping with Cancer (Helen Webb House) and also contacting Samaritans when desperate.

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On Grief and Dying: Understanding the Soul’s Journey

Drawing from the wisdom of various sources—the contemporary Goddess movement, powerful psychic techniques, and the ancient traditions of Buddhism and Greek mythology—healer and writer Diane Stein leads the reader on a remarkable journey toward loving acceptance, affirmation, and hope.

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Healing Traumatic Grief

This is an amazing, candid, heartfelt Q&A with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore on Healing Traumatic Grief.

Joanne Cacciatore

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Dr. Joanne Cacciatore Recovery Today Interview

Sherry Gaba, LCSW and Editor of Recovery Today Magazine had the opportunity to interview Dr. Joanne Cacciatore who is a research professor at Arizona State University with nearly 70 published studies and directs the graduate Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement.

Joanne Cacciatore

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