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Enrich Your Caregiving Journey

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“Enrich Your Caregiving Journey” is written for the caregiver’s needs. Taking care of yourself while caring for another is challenging. Winner of the “2010 Caregiver Friendly Award”, this book provides tools and doable tips in the context of three caregiver stories. It’s comforting, friendly, and confirming. The result is a more resilient you!

Consistent with our other books, each of the twelve chapters are divided into the following sections:

-Introduction and Objectives
-A Caregiver’s Story-
-Caregiver Considerations
-Summary Tips
-Personal Journey

The reader follows three families on a chronological journey of caregiving; the first chapter is titled “Our World Just Changed” and the final chapter, “Considering the Future”. Readers are invited to take notes in a journaling section at the conclusion of each chapter, thus making this book a tool to be reviewed and resourced often.

The book is $19.95 plus shipping, handling and MN salestax

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Enrich Your Caregiving Journey Book Reviews

– John Mills & Susan Baida, Co-Founders of eCareDiary.com
Enrich Your Caregiving Journey is a must-have for anyone faced with the daunting responsibilities, challenges and stresses of caring for an ailing or elderly loved one. She reveals a treasure chest of techniques on how to cope with your emotions and that of your loved one, how to work effectively with family and friends, and how to deal with conflict. Ultimately, you learn to become so effective that you can eventually help mentor others. This is how caregivers learn best, through other caregivers. And this is Margery’s gift to her readers based on her many years of personal and professional experience. We so value her expertise and compassion for caregivers that we asked her to be our Caregiving Expert and trusted advisor.

- Deborah German M.D. Dean, UCF College of Nursing, & Vice President of Medical Affairs
In medicine there is much written to help doctors and nurses care for patients but little for family members. This book addresses many of the issues that a care giver will face and does so in a way that is practical and easy to understand.

-Marilyn Hattaway CFRE, Asst. Director of Development, Hospice of the Comforter
At last, a practical book that helps us move our thinking in the critical area of Caregiving.

-Terry Teachout, drama critic The Wall Street Journal
Taking care of a loved one, whether briefly or for many years, is one of the hardest and most emotionally complex experiences known to humankind. Yet most people face it alone, without preparation or useful counsel. If you need to know how to cope with caregiving, "Enrich Your Caregiving Journey" is the book for you, a commonsense guide to the problems of caregiving that is utterly practical and deeply informed by real-life experience. Reading it is like sitting down with an old friend who's been down the same road and knows just what to say--and what to do.

Other books in the “Pivotal Crossings Series”

Our other books follow the same format and offer stories, tips, and tools for each pivotal intersection in our readers’ lives.

--Read “A Moving Experience” to assist you in negotiating the emotional and social adjustments when your family moves to a new community. Discover ways to make moving a key learning experience for the whole family!

Margery Pabst’s personal experiences of moving family both nationally and internationally resonate through this book and provide clarity to readers who face ‘a moving experience’! Margery says, “The stories in our books create emotional connections and shared wisdom for our readers”.

This book comes in an e-book format and is $9.79
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--Read “Leaving For College” with your child to navigate the adjustments that both of you are making as you experience “the empty nest” and he/she experiences leaving home. Be entertained and educated by 12 key stages that are easy to read and provide examples for students and parents alike.

Rita Goldhammer says that “this type of anxiety is felt by both parents and students alike as children progress into their college years--often the first time a child has left home for a significant period of time.” Goldhammer continues, “As parents, we’re happy and excited for our children to move on in their lives, yet we aren’t prepared for the feelings of loss and grief that fill us once they are gone.”

This book comes in an e-book format and is $9.79
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--Read “Downsizing Your Home” to discover and embrace the ‘smaller is better’ view of your life. Find time for rewiring your life and reviewing the possibilities for the interests and skills you always had when mid- life got in the way.

Margery and Rita emphasize that this book is a must- have resource for discovering meaning for yourself and others in retirement. But first we must all divest ourselves of the possessions (some may call it ‘stuff’ or ‘things’) getting in our way. “Cleaning out the closet brings empowerment and it can’t stop there” both women emphatically say.

This book comes in an e-book format and is $9.79
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