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Daily Acts of Self-Care Can Ease Caregiving Stress

By Lee Woodruff — 2021

Light exercise, breathing techniques, even smiling can improve overall wellness

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No Saints around Here: A Caregiver’s Days

When we promise “in sickness and in health,” it may be a mercy that we don’t know exactly what lies ahead. Forcing food on an increasingly recalcitrant spouse. Brushing his teeth. Watching someone you love more than ever slip away day by day.

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Susan Allen Toth
2025
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Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America

Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles.

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Kate Washington
2022
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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.

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Arthur Kleinman
2019
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The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery

In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn’t exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets that only suffering reveals.

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Ross Douthat
2021
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More than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

Part-manifesto, part-memoir, from the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue, an exploration of what it means to come into your own—on your own terms Throughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings...

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Elaine Welteroth
2019
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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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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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Caregiver Well-Being