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Self-Care for Foster Parents

By Creating a Family Staff

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

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Mom Talk: The Many Gifts of Parenting with a Disability

Born with a rare neuromuscular condition, the New York–based mother of twins and psychotherapist has dealt with physical limitations her whole life. But what these limitations have resulted in is a rich list of abilities and lessons that she is uniquely suited to pass down to her children.

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Audra DeNicola
2021
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Advice on Dire Diagnoses From a Survivor

With each diagnosis, knowing her life hung in the balance, she was “stunned, then anguished” and astonished by “how much energy it takes to get from the bad news to actually starting on the return path to health.”

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Jane E. Brody
2007
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What Those with Chronic Pain or Illness DON’T Want to Hear

I've written this piece partly because I hope it will make those of us with health difficulties feel less alone and partly because I hope it will help others understand how to communicate with us better. With that in mind, I hope you'll find it helpful.

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Toni Bernhard
2012
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Please Help Out Those with a Disability or a Chronic Illness. You’ll Also Help Yourself.

I’ve been disabled and intensely ill with the degenerative neuro-immuno illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (formerly known by the misnomer “chronic fatigue syndrome”) for 30 years.

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Litsa Dremousis
2021
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When Asking for Help Seems Like Too Hard a Task

Asking for help is hard. Really hard. People say they understand that. When someone is brave enough to ask for help when they are in a desperate situation they are congratulated on recognizing they can’t do it on their own. But do people really understand what it takes?

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Julia Norton
2016
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How to Ask for Help

Learn to communicate skillfully with others so you can get the help you need.

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Toni Bernhard
2011
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