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2022 Revised Edition Who are the caregivers? We all are, for at the heart of being human is the capacity to care, to reach out to others and explore the relationships we build. The Soul of Caregiving is about us, and how we, as caregivers, serve, even sacrifice, for those in need. I invite you to explore with me how we can partake in a kind of sacred journey exploring our experiences as caregivers. Who will be your guide on this journey? Unlike other pilgrims who have a guide assigned to them, you will soon discover it is your own Soul guiding you. We may be professionally skilled to meet the needs of others, but we must also learn to stop and rest. It is not a waste of time, but rather, a necessity. We need time to ponder, reflect, and grow from our experiences. Not an easy endeavor amid a whirlwind of activity. We, as caregivers, experience vulnerability, helplessness, fears, and pain over the traumatic events we experience because we care. We care about those whom we are called to serve. Compassion fatigue arises because we care.Overview of the ChaptersChapter 1 begins by outlying the tension most caregivers experience: the tension their own needs and the needs of those they care for. I call this tension the Dance of Caregiving.Chapter 2 discusses the importance of discovering interior strengths and values where one discovers Soul.Chapter 3 emphasizes caregivers do not care in a vacuum, as there are broad cultural boundaries and expectations which affect them and shape their behaviors.Chapter 4 describes The Archetype of Caregiving, both its strengths and shadow sides. This archetype also relates to several other leadership archetypes, which are also discussed.Chapter 5 discusses hospitality. This chapter positions the caregiver as the host who experiences three different dimensions of hospitality: to host the stranger, to listen to the stories of the guest, and to reflect on their reactions and experiences.Chapter 6 address the frailty of humankind and the notion that we are wounded healers.Chapter 7 addresses the art of reflection as a fundamental skill for caregivers.Chapter 8 argues that the essential actions of a caregiver are spiritual.Chapter 9 explores how the ordinary becomes spiritual as inner strengths and values give birth to meaning, insight, and transformation.Chapter 10 explores compassion fatigue and its two sisters, secondary traumatic stress disorder and burnout. In this chapter, we learn how to recover from compassion fatigue and burnout by building compassion resilience.At the end of each chapter, the reader is invited to ponder and reflect. Your insights are the gold hidden beneath the sands of confusion. Mining these insights will lead to a greater understanding of your strengths and values. The questions at the end of each chapter help facilitate this process.

A fun read aloud book for ages 4-9, grades K-3.Goats that snorkel and talk to sea turtles?Goats that play basketball . . . what''s going on?Weebee and Ginger are just two ordinary goats.How can this happen?Read this book to find out!About the GoatsWeebee and Ginger are two real Boer goats. They have brown floppy ears and a white body with friendly, smiling eyes. We named the little goat Weebee after the Wee Bee Little pumpkin variety because these girls were born on the day we went to a pumpkin patch for a fall birthday party. Wee Bee Little pumpkins were the tiniest, cutest pumpkins just like tiny Weebee goat. About the AuthorsDinah Piester and her family live on a small farm on the Central Coast of California. She graduated from Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo, California with a teaching credential and Masters degree in Education. She was a teacher, is a mother of four, and a grandmother of four.She has a big imagination and has always loved to read and tell stories to children. Anna has had a love for art at a very young age. Growing up, she and her sister Emily would often draw pictures of her pets wearing clothes. Anna followed her mother''s footsteps and pursued an elementary education degree at the Master''s University. She has taught many grades and is excited to share her love for creativity through writing and art with her students.

After having accidentally met and subsequently been chased all over Texas by Government Agents and a Billionaire Drug Lord, Sam and Melissa had become inseparable. They spent every single day for the next 6 months with each other. Finally, it became time for them to spend a weekend apart. And that

In "Turn and Burn" the author takes the readers with him in the cockpit as he shares the fulfillment of his boyhood dream and some of his most memorable adventures and misadventures as a fighter pilot, both in combat and peacetime.

For anyone looking to elevate their life to the next level and pursue the best version of themselves, BAR40 offers the framework and guidelines that will help you achieve the ultimate year of reaching your full potential.BAR40 is a 52-week program designed to provide the foundation and tools for creating new life-changing habits in core areas such as mindset, diet, and fitness. Part of what makes Bar40 so uniquely effective is the combined body and mind approach in a self-guided journey that begins with establishing goals and provides the resources that allow you to track your progress to completion in a daily journal.While BAR40 makes no claims of easy results with no effort, what it does deliver are fundamental improvements through commitment, dedication, and personal accountability. These self-mastery skills will have you performing at peak levels while looking and feeling your best. Most importantly, the changes and improvements that you create in your life over the next year will be your new lifestyle habits, allowing you to continue on your course of personal excellence with a mindset permanently set to achieving more.Some key points of the BAR40 program include:A 1-year/52 week commitment to yourself on living your best year ever and the accompanying strategies for goal-setting, habit formation and elimination.Planning for diet enhancements through substitution and modification which allow you to continue eating type of foods you enjoy but in a healthier way. This sustainable approach will help put you on the path towards looking and feeling your best while avoiding ''yo-yo diet'' failures.Personal accountability coaching and strategies that will help you create a plan and strategy for every area of your life, tailored to your goals and schedule. In this approach you will have a plan each week to insure you are on track to achieve your established objectives for the year.A fitness component largely based on your self-designed weekly program, emphasizing cardio and bodyweight exercises to reduce the need for external resources such as gyms.Daily mindfulness practices and breathing techniques help you implement a whole new range of stress management techniques and build your skills at living in the present. This approach not only allows for better daily decision making but eliminates future regrets.Practical daily strategies for increasing mental toughness, perseverance and Grit (a powerful weapon you will be using to eliminate procrastination and start making every day truly count!)A 52-week ''sober challenge''. While not mandatory, it is highly recommended as part of your 1-year journey to your best self!Also included in the book is the 365 day ''Ultimate Year'' all-inclusive journal which combines the best elements of fitness, diet, and mindfulness journals in one place.BAR40 will transform your ideas to action and your actions to success, as defined by your personal goals. Here''s to you living your best year ever!

Review from Sir Graeme Catto (President and chair of the British Medical Council)This is a fascinating and very personal book. Benjamin holds our attention through his mastery of story-telling and despite the avalanche of pretty awful jokes. His tales of the patients he encountered in his long career as a psychiatrist are fascinating and make us take his critical views of his specialty seriously. The title, with its intentional biblical overtones, sets the scene. David was a young colleague who suffered a prolonged and agonising death after a cycling accident left him quadriplegic. The substance of the book, “a manifesto for the revolution in mental health care”, are the views they would have discussed had David survived.Michael Benjamin was a fellow medical student more than half a century ago. Our paths diverged and I have learned of his clinical career and writings only from a distance. His humanity, however, remains undimmed. His care for the patients, his wish to understand the basis of their psychoses and his belief in the importance of the personal interaction (the doctor-patient relationship) shines throughout the book. It is no surprise that he is excoriating on the dependence now placed on pharmaceutical treatments and on the pharmaceutical industry for their, often uncritical, promotion. He shines a bright and uncomfortable light on many treatments that were, until quite recently, in common clinical practice without robust evidence for their efficacy and which caused real harm.His views on our development from infancy are well written and based on his vast experience of psychiatry over many years. The unconscious processes that govern our conscious actions are well described as are the possible links between dreams, day-dreams and psychoses. I, and I suspect the author, do not know if these concepts help us understand mental ill-health any better but the intellectual arguments are certainly worth considering. This text is no conventional assessment of mental illness and its treatment. It is much more. It is the culmination of a lifetime treating real patients with real, and often intractable problems. Benjamin’s reflections reflect the humanity of the man, a quality not always found in clinical practice. They also confirm my view that psychiatry was not for me.From the Backcover...A Manifesto for the Revolution in Mental HealthcareThroughout modern history, previous generations of psychiatrists have perpetrated a very sordid series of misdeeds which we cannot explain away. Our helping hand to the Nazis and Soviets cannot and should never be forgotten or brushed aside. I fear we have provided the next generation with another batch of reasons to question themselves with.Automatic EverythingHalf of the time, we humans are not aware of what we are doing. I’m going to surprise you even further. When we believe we know what we are doing, we are not actually fully aware of what we are doing. Now, that is one hell of a complicated sentenceThis book is about dreams, daydreams and beliefs. Why are they so important? They are the representation of the past, the future and the present. When the regulation of any one or all of them goes wrong, all hell breaks loose.

There are two types of people in this world; those who ponder and those who act. 50 Interviews showcases that latter, offering an honest glimpse into the mindset of a true entrepreneur. Their answers offer real life wisdom, insight and practical advice you can put to use now. These entrepreneurs are living proof that you can create something from nothing and that without risk, they can be no reward. They teach us that failure is the pathway to success, a burning passion the essential fuel, and having a purpose greater than ourselves is the key to fulfillment.