Take Good Care: Finding Your Joy in Compassionate Caregiving - Orange, Cynthia
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"In a time when tens of millions of people provide care for family members, older adults, and people with special needs, we should all be experts at it. Instead, we often struggle with caring for others while taking care of ourselves. In Take Good Care, author Cynthia Orange brings together compelling testimonies from a wide range of caregivers, advice from leading experts in the field, and her own hard-won wisdom to capture the subtle differences between caretaking and caregiving. With a foreword by Susan Allen Toth, the critically acclaimed author of No Saints around Here: A Caregiver's…mehr

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"In a time when tens of millions of people provide care for family members, older adults, and people with special needs, we should all be experts at it. Instead, we often struggle with caring for others while taking care of ourselves. In Take Good Care, author Cynthia Orange brings together compelling testimonies from a wide range of caregivers, advice from leading experts in the field, and her own hard-won wisdom to capture the subtle differences between caretaking and caregiving. With a foreword by Susan Allen Toth, the critically acclaimed author of No Saints around Here: A Caregiver's Days, this book shows us how and why caring for each other can be a mutually rewarding experience. It's easy to become overinvolved in another person's life and needs when giving care. Feeling burdened with expectations and resentments in a codependent relationship hinders a sense of joy, purpose, and engagement. Relationships require empathy and boundaries; with them, a codependent caretaker can transform into an intentional, self-aware, and compassionate caregiver"--
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Cynthia Orange is the author of two Nautilus Award-winning books: Shock Waves: A Practical Guide to Living with a Loved One’s PTSD and her newest title Take Good Care.  The facilitator of a caregivers' support group, Cynthia—along with her husband, a Vietnam combat veteran—often speaks to audiences about the effects of trauma. Her work has been published throughout the United States, and she has written hundreds of articles about addiction, recovery, parenting, post-traumatic stress disorder, and caregiving