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I Care: Creating Affirmations Designed to Renew and Evolve the Inner You

I C.A.R.E., was birthed from the seeds of healing that we often offer to others through empowering conversations, actions, prayer, and by expressing a genuine concern for one another. I C.A.R.E. is more of a movement that is dedicated in supporting one’s rejuvenation and spiritual renewal. I C.A.R.E. is intended for providing daily nourishment for one’s creativity, as well as awakening your inner passions. By affirming positive thoughts, we begin to redirect our thoughts, words, behavior, and ultimately our lives. I C.A.R.E. is designed to water the seeds of creativity that are within us all. And in order to grow, we must begin to take action by positive affirmations. Once we’ve incorporated the behavior of affirming positive actions into our daily living, a renewed mind and spirit will begin to birth and shape our lives. I C.A.R.E. is simply a life action plan that consist of 90 days of creating affirmations designed to renew and evolve the inner you.

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Healing with Heart: Inspirations for Health Care Professionals

WINNER: American Journal of Nursing 2008 Book of the Year Award in the Leadership and Management category. Healing with Heart is a one of a kind book written by a health care professional exclusively for health care professionals-whether they work at the bedside or support those who do. It uses everyday stories of life in hospitals, hospices, and medical offices to improve and deepen one’s interactions with coworkers, patients and their families. Healing With Heart is a truly transformational work of heart, spirit and common sense. Its selfless, warm, and personal tone confers a degree of dignity to everyone working in this very important field. Healing with Heart consists of short reflections covering subjects that can be appreciated especially by readers in the field. This gift-quality book is portable, accommodating readers who are on-the-go and want a quick, inspirational message before returning to work. This practical book awakens passion and provides health care professionals with a fresh perspective on work. Readers come away feeling that who they are and what they do is important, whatever their job may be. Author Martin Helldorfer is Senior Vice President, Mission for Exempla Healthcare. Healing with Heart embodies Martin’s unique experiences and perspective formed from years as a monk and training as a clinical psychologist. Hospitals use Healing with Heart in workshops and retreats on Leadership Effectiveness, Resilience, Avoiding Burnout, and Physician Development. They are starting their huddles and staff meetings with reflections. Hospitals are giving Healing with Heart as recognition, holiday, Nursing Week and Staffing Week gifts. Health care vendors who wish to connect more meaningfully with their customers are giving Healing with Heart rather than the usual tote bags and coffee mugs. Patients are giving Healing with Heart to their favorite health care professionals in gratitude for caring for their loved ones.

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Affirmation, Care Ethics, and LGBT Identity

In this book, Johnston argues that affirmation is not only encouragement or support, but also the primary mechanism we use to form our identities and create safe spaces. Using the work of feminist care ethics and the thinking of French philosopher Henri Bergson to examine responses to school bullying and abuses faced by LGBT older adults, he provides the theoretical analysis and practical tools LGBT people and their allies need to make all spaces, public and private, spaces in which we can live openly as members of the LGBT community.

With its combination of philosophical theory and on-the-ground activist experience, this text will be useful to anyone interested in philosophy, women’s and gender studies, psychology, aging, geriatrics, and LGBT activism. 

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Rising Above a Toxic Workplace: Taking Care of Yourself in an Unhealthy Environment

You can rise above. You do have options.

Do you work in a toxic environment or have a toxic boss? You’re not alone! Today, unattainable expectations, emotional harassment, and demands to do more with less often leave employees overworked, underpaid, insecure, and out of options. Must you continue to put up with poisonous people in a morale-crushing environment?

In Rising Above a Toxic Workplace, you’ll learn how to endure, cope, or quit if necessary. Drawing from authentic — sometimes horrific — real-life stories, authors Gary Chapman, Paul White, and Harold Myra blend their expertise to give you practical guidance, empowering insight, and realistic hope. You’ll discover:

how workplaces can become unhealthy and how to avoid getting wounded;what drives toxic leaders and why they are so damaging to those around them;essential tips for maintaining your sanity while dealing with dysfunctional colleagues; andcounsel on how to decide when to leave — for your own mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

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Self Care: An Authentic Journey

Self Care An Authentic Journey is a combination of tools and techniques the author has used in her own life as well as in private sessions with her coaching clients. The tools and techniques contained within this book assist in living a more fulfilled and nurturing life. Self-care is the basis to thriving in life and the author writes simply and on point as she walks you through a process of self-discovery, empowerment and fulfilled living. This is a journey from depletion, overwhelm and survival to fulfilled living and thriving. It is not just a once off read, but a set of exercises to use whenever you feel your self-care needs a re-haul or boost.

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Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior (Applications of Motivational Interviewing)

Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior change. Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health, from weight loss, exercise, and smoking cessation, to medication adherence and safer sex practices. Engaging dialogues and vignettes bring to life the core skills of motivational interviewing (MI) and show how to incorporate this brief evidence-based approach into any health care setting. Appendices include MI training resources and publications on specific medical conditions.

This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series.

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Children with Special Needs: Stories of Love and Understanding for Those Who Care for Children with Disabilities

‘These powerful heart-rending stories are filled with honesty, humor, hope and offer inspiration to parents, teachers, and anyone else who cares for children with special needs. By embracing the magnificence, inner peace, and beauty each child possess, our own attitudes are shifted from despair to promise.’

—Gerold G Jampolsky, M.D., Founder of International Center of Attitudinal Healing, Sausalito , California

Raising a child with special needs is a lifelong commitment that is as unique as each person who embarks on it. Written by a variety of authors who share in this distinctive relationship, Chicken Soup for the Soul Children with Special Needs offers a glimpse into the lives of others who are on a similar path.

These stories provide insight, comfort, and connection with others who have walked this powerful and transformational journey. The authors of these candid stories relate their own experiences of adjusting, reaching out, and flourishing and share their universal worries, their tears, and the laughter that come with this extraordinary relationship. Most important, through these stories, you will be guided with the wisdom of fellow parents, caregivers, and those with special needs to help you be the very best parent or caregiver you can be.