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Life's last gift : giving and receiving peace when a loved one is dying / Charles Garfield.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Las Vegas, NV : Central Recovery Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 237 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781942094500
  • 1942094507
  • 9781942094494
  • 1942094493
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction -- I will listen from the heart -- I will speak from the heart -- I will act from the heart -- I will treat you with empathy -- I will value small acts of kindness -- I will listen to your stories -- I will use my pain to connect with you -- I will allow love to sustain and heal us both -- I will accompany you as far as we can go together.
Summary: After four decades of training volunteers to sit at the bedsides of the dying, psychologist and Shanti founder Charles Garfield has created an essential guide for friends, family, and healthcare professionals who want to ease someone's final days but don't know where to begin. Garfield presents practical advice about finding connection, honesty, and peace while being of the greatest service to those at the end of life. By focusing on the reciprocal and healing relationship between the living and the dying, he offers a path toward clarity and wholeness, and even growth. Life's Last Gift is an emotional lifeline for anyone who feels lost and filled with grief during this final stage of life.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 616.029 G231 Available 33111008862654
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An indispensable, compassionate end-of-life resource

After four decades of training volunteers to sit at the bedsides of the dying, psychologist and Shanti founder Charles Garfield has created an essential guide for friends, family, and healthcare professionals who want to ease someone's final days but don't know where to begin.

Garfield presents practical advice about finding connection, honesty, and peace while being of the greatest service to those at the end of life. By focusing on the reciprocal and healing relationship between the living and the dying, which continues until the last breath, he offers a path toward clarity and wholeness, and even growth. Life's Last Gift is an emotional lifeline for anyone who feels lost and filled with grief during this final stage of life.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237).

After four decades of training volunteers to sit at the bedsides of the dying, psychologist and Shanti founder Charles Garfield has created an essential guide for friends, family, and healthcare professionals who want to ease someone's final days but don't know where to begin. Garfield presents practical advice about finding connection, honesty, and peace while being of the greatest service to those at the end of life. By focusing on the reciprocal and healing relationship between the living and the dying, he offers a path toward clarity and wholeness, and even growth. Life's Last Gift is an emotional lifeline for anyone who feels lost and filled with grief during this final stage of life.

Introduction -- I will listen from the heart -- I will speak from the heart -- I will act from the heart -- I will treat you with empathy -- I will value small acts of kindness -- I will listen to your stories -- I will use my pain to connect with you -- I will allow love to sustain and heal us both -- I will accompany you as far as we can go together.

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