2016
After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter.
99 min
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Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she's learned about compassion in the face of death and dying, and a deep insight into the nature of empathy.
This book is comprised of quotations from Bearing the Unbearable, and other sources as well, plus an enormous amount of new material from Dr. Jo.
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Based on his extensive counseling work with the terminally ill, Levine’s book integrates death into the context of life with compassion, skill, and hope.
The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds—as has been demonstrated by Joan Halifax’s decades of work with the dying and their caregivers.
Some people harbor the illusion that rest is a luxury they do not have time for, but the reality is that rest is a necessity.
There may be a reason so many people refer to losing a piece of themselves...
When psychotherapist Jeanne Safer lost her mother, she was determined to turn her loss into an opportunity for insight and growth. Through her own experience, her work with patients, and in-depth interviews, Safer shows that the death of a parent can be a catalyst for change.
Sadness is a central part of our lives, yet it’s typically ignored at work, hurting employees and managers alike.
Simply put: compassion is lovingkindness in action.
If we can process our regrets with tenderness and compassion, we can use these hard memories as a part of our wisdom bank.
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