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How long term stress affects your body

Posted on October 24, 2015 by webmaven

How Stress Can Make You Sick Posting this in preparation for the talk I will be giving at the JFS Caregiver Conference  entitled: Stress?  What Stress???Source of video: TED-Ed – How stress affects your body

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According To Psychologists, Coloring Is The Best Alternative To Meditation 

Posted on October 13, 2015 by webmaven

Sooooo…lets get drawing and coloring! Source: According To Psychologists, Coloring Is The Best Alternative To Meditation  and see also:  The Therapeutic Science of Adult Coloring Books 

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Spirituality & Practice: Sacred Presence with the Dying

Posted on October 12, 2015 by webmaven

This e-course with Megory Anderson is one of three on end-of-life issues in Spirituality & Practice’s Elder Spirituality Series. They demonstrate how death and dying is a multi-faceted process affecting not only the dying but all those around them. Each … Continue reading →

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What are the 5 Steps to Better Caregiving?

Posted on September 20, 2015 by webmaven

Denial’s not a River We live in a time of tremendous cultural denial of aging and end of life issues. That’s why the Caregiver Revolution is so valuable. It goes right to the heart of the issue. To start, you … Continue reading →

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Stages of Dying – Dissolution of the Elements

Posted on September 12, 2015 by webmaven

As discussed earlier, when we think of the stages of dying it is easy to get confused with Kubler-Ross’s 5 stages of grieving when facing death which are widely known as “the 5 stages of loss” as put forth by … Continue reading →

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Stages – Good Grief

Posted on September 9, 2015 by webmaven

Before we talk about the stages of physical death we will have a short discussion about what are commonly thought of as the stages of dying followed by a must read article by Meghan O’Rourke published in the New Yorker … Continue reading →

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