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7 Ways to Keep Your Relationship Strong Despite a Chronic Illness

By Karen Bruno — 2012

Don’t let chronic illness weaken the bond between you and your partner.

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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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Caring for Family, Caring for Yourself

Whether you choose to be a family caregiver or the job is thrust upon you by circumstances, your most important responsibility beyond caring for your ill or disabled relative is caring for yourself.

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Jane E. Brody
2008
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The Pain of Caregiving and the Privilege of Suffering

It is essential for those in caregiving roles to cultivate self-compassion alongside compassion for others, to create an inner atmosphere of kindness, expansiveness, and awareness in which resilience can flourish.

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Sharon Salzberg
2015
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Caregiver Well-Being