Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 224 pages
- Published by: McGraw-Hill
- Edition: 1st Edition April 1, 1997
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0809231433
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0809231430
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Book Dimensions:
7 x 5 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 8 ounces
Product Description
Although caring for an elderly mother or father is one of the most difficult challenges a human being can face, it can also deepen an adult child's respect for the parent and understanding for the role of caregiver.
Gifts from the Heart: Meditations on Caring for Aging Parents is the caregiver's companion, a sympathetic guide to the spiritual aspects of an often demanding and exhausting situation. More than 200 meditations offer reflections on ways to embrace one's own growth while coping with the decline of an aging parent.
About The Author
Bonni Goldberg is the author of
Room to Write (Tarcher/Putnam), and her essays have appeared in the
New York Times and
Baltimore Sun, among other newspapers. She lectures and conducts workshops on topics related to creativity and creative writing.
Geo Kendall is the director of the Baltimore Men's Resource Center and has facilitated seminars on personal growth and development for more than ten years.
Reader ReviewsIf you are caring for aged parents, you should run right out and buy this wonderful little book. It deals with that time when our situation with parents is reversed, when the child becomes the caregiver, the supervisor, the shepherd charged with guiding those who brought us in the front door of this life out its back door. This can be a momentous time, when responsibility can hang almost too heavy. But it can also be a time of joy and healing. Goldberg and Kendall have put together a collection of meditations on old age and caregiving that show how to turn the frustrations, exhaustions, and traumas of caring for old parents into a time of spiritual enrichment. Like Goldberg's Room to Write and The Spirit of Pregnancy, Gifts from the Heart is a book to keep beside the bed, a book to be dipped into and savored. It will restore your spirit when you are exhausted by duties and demands, and encourage you to look beyond the day-to-day to the beauties and revelations that can heal divisions between child and parent and bring about a final separation that rises toward transcendence. This is not a how-to book, although it abounds with practical suggestions. Rather, it is a series of parables, simple on the surface, but full of depths and comfort. It is a book to heal the human spirit.
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