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When and How to Say “No” to Caregiving

By Deborah Colgan

Being able to say, “No, I can no longer continue to provide care in this way,” may not only save the caregiver from emotional and physical burnout, but can also open up opportunities of shared caregiving responsibilities with others while deepening the level of honesty and openness in the relationship.

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Help When Your Heart Breaks

Caring for people who are suffering is a loving, even heroic calling, but it takes a toll. Roshi Joan Halifax teaches this five-step program to care for yourself while caring for others.

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Joan Halifax
2018
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An Introduction to Emotional Intelligence

The definition of emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize, differentiate, and manage our emotions and the emotions of others. The notion of emotions being important in our lives goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks.

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Harvey Deutschendorf
2022
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Selfless Caregiving May Heighten Vicarious Trauma

Cultivating insight can help caregivers build resilience to loss.

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Elizabeth Young
2021
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How to Be More Empathetic

More and more, we live in bubbles. Most of us are surrounded by people who look like us, vote like us, earn like us, spend money like us, have educations like us and worship like us. The result is an empathy deficit, and it’s at the root of many of our biggest problems.

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Claire Cain Miller
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7 Practical Ways to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence measures our ability to perceive our own emotions, as well as the emotions of others, and to manage them in a productive and healthy way.

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Hannah Braime
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5 Skills to Help You Develop Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is a set of skills you can get better at with practice. Here are five skills you can cultivate to make you a more emotionally intelligent person.

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Mark Manson
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What Type of Meditation Is Best for You?

One of the most in-depth meditation studies to date shows that different practices have different benefits.

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Tania Singer
2018
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