Msw Friedman

Jewish Wisdom for Growing Older (eBook, ePUB)

Finding Your Grit and Grace Beyond Midlife

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offers inspiration and guidance to help you make greater meaning and flourish amid the challenges of aging. It taps ancient Jewish wisdom for values, tools and precedents to frame new callings and beginnings, shifting family roles, and experiences of illness and death. For seekers of all faiths; for personal use and caregiving settings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580238328
• Artikelnr.: 49989648

Autorenporträt

Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, MSW, MA, BCC, is a pioneer in forging a fresh vision for the second half of life. She is a spiritual leader, social innovator, scholar, author of Jewish Visions for Aging: A Professional Guide to Fostering Wholeness and editor of Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook from Traditional and Contemporary Sources. She founded and directed Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Rabbi Friedman offers training, consulting and spiritual guidance through Growing Older (www.growingolder.co), her Philadelphia-based national practice.

Rabbi Friedman is available to speak to your group or at your event. For more information, please contact us at [phone] or [e-mail].

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Births Out of Brokenness: Growing Whole as We Grow Older
Part I
Facing Shatterings as We Grow Older
1. Seeking Wisdom: Transcending Destructive Ageism
2. One Big Hole: Confronting the Broken Heart
3. The Ultimate Shattering: Embracing Our Mortality
4. Finding Wholeness as Our Bodies Break Down
5. Wandering in the Wilderness: Caring for Our Fragile Dear Ones
6. Making Sense of Dementia's Brokenness
Part II
Searching for the Sparks: Beginning Again (and Again)
7. Softening to Reality: Finding Sweetness amid Suffering
8. A Time to Heal: Liberation through Forgiveness
9. Declaring Interdependence
10. Making Wise Choices about Medical Care at the Edge of Life
11. New Ways of Loving: Growing Up as We and Our Parents Age
12. Traveling Lighter: Winnowing "Stuff "
13. A Sanctuary in Time: Spending Our Precious Time Mindfully
Part III
Basking in the Light: Honing and Sharing Wisdom
14. Answering the Call: Saying "Here I Am" (Hineini)
15. Drawing from the Well: Developing a Blessing Practice
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Using This Book: A Guide for Book Groups and Wisdom Circles
Notes
For Further Learning