Dimensions
154 x 228 x 17mm
'Simple ways to offer support, comfort and care to a loved one facing illness.'
When a spouse becomes seriously ill, the healthy partner often feels a profound sense of helplessness and despair. This book offers a new sense of empowerment for the intimate partners of people living with serious health problems. The book consists of fifty short chapters, each explaining why and when to use a given strategy and concrete step-by-step guidance in how to do it. The author, a psychotherapist and researcher, also shares his reflections and insights from two decades of clinical practice treating couples who are going through serious illness.
Partners in Healing is divided into seven subject areas:
* Strategies of self-care for the caring partner
* Ways of involving family and friends in a network of support
* Simple massage and touch techniques to bring comfort and reduce symptoms
* Simple energy healing techniques
* Distant healing using transpersonal imagery, mediation, and prayer
* Forms of "affirmative communication" that provide reassurance
* Simple rituals of caring and nourishment
