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Caregiving for a Loved One with a Long-Term Illness

By CancerCare staff — 2021

When you are caring for a loved one with a long-term illness, caregiving becomes a marathon rather than a sprint.

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The Selfish Pig’s Guide to Caring

Hugh Marriott has written a humorous self-help manual that brings into the open everything the author wishes he’d been told when he first became a carer (aka caregiver), a job that is long, lonely, and difficult yet there is limited support and no formal training.

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Hugh Marriott
2009
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Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers

Always on Call presents an intimate look at the world of family caregiving.

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Carol Levine (editor)
2004
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Things I Wish I’d Known: Cancer Caregivers Speak Out

Nearly three-quarters of American households will find themselves caring for a cancer patient at one point in their lives. Based on formal interviews with nonprofessional caregivers, this book is the first to capture their thoughts, feelings, and insights on a large scale.

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Deborah J. Cornwall
2016
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Helping Yourself Help Others: A Book for Caregivers

Having cared at home for her ailing father and grandfather, Rosalynn Carter’s involvement has taught her that Americans are in the middle of a caregiving crisis. In this book, Mrs.

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Rosalynn Carter and Susan Golant
1995
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Self-Care Check-In: A Guided Journal to Build Healthy Habits and Devote Time to You

Self care isn’t about escaping life’s problems―it can actually help you solve them. The Self Care Check-in is a guided journal packed with research-based techniques to help you manage stress, nurture your values and goals, and take steps toward concrete change.

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GG Renee Hill
2020
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Create Your Own Calm: A Journal for Quieting Anxiety

Feeling anxious, uncertain, overwhelmed? You're not alone. In this empowering new tool for self-care, popular artist and author Meera Lee Patel presents a fresh approach to feeling better.

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Meera Lee Patel
2020
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Heart Talk: The Journal—52 Weeks of Self-Love, Self-Care, and Self-Discovery

Inspired by her conversations with the thousands of fans she has met on her nationwide sold-out tours, Heart Talk: The Journal is a space to share your own truths alongside hers. As Cleo writes, “The best thing about your life is that it is constantly in a state of design.

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Cleo Wade
2020
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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to be a woman in today’s world are two very different things—and women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them.

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Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski
2020
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Forest Therapy: Seasonal Ways to Embrace Nature for a Happier You

Forest bathing is a rising trend, but what to do if you're not near the woods or if the weather is dreary? Forest Therapy offers practical steps and inspiration to tap into nature's restorative power, no matter the season or the weather.

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Sarah Ivens
2018
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Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature

Simply being present in the natural world - with all our senses fully alive - can have a remarkably healing effect. It can also awaken in us our latent but profound connection with all living things. This is "forest bathing", a practice inspired by the Japanese tradition of shinrin-yoku.

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M. Amos Clifford
2018
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