Download or read book The Comfort Garden written by Laurie Barkin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comfort Garden: Tales from the Trauma Unit When the Caregiver Needs Solace The Comfort Garden is Laurie Barkin's account of the five years she worked as a psychiatric nurse on the surgical/trauma unit at San Francisco General Hospital. Told against the backdrop of patients who survived motor vehicle accidents, falls, fires, fists, bullets, and knives, The Comfort Garden is a metaphor for the emotional support caregivers need. The story illuminates the issues of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma that may develop in caregivers when exposure to tragedy becomes routine. The Comfort Garden will appeal to health care professionals, firefighters, police, war veterans, social workers, journalists, students, and anyone whose life is touched by trauma. "The Comfort Garden reveals the real world of human-to-human caring at its highest level." Jean Watson, RN, PhD, author of Human Caring Science: A Theory of Nursing "Laurie is that rare health professional with a gift for narrative and a story to tell. This is an important book for any health care worker, but especially for those of us who consider ourselves traumatic stress specialists. It reinforces the values and the spirit that brought us into the field. And it reminds us of the obstacles we face every day: human cruelty, social injustice, dwindling resources. Read this. You'll be better for it." Frank M Ochberg MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Michigan State University Laurie Barkin "sensitively documents the process of vicarious trauma how caregivers like herself internalize their patients trauma." San Francisco Chronicle "In an age when hospitals have been turning to quicker-acting medications, faster discharges, and fewer deep and meaningful conversations with patients, Laurie Barkin takes the opposite position. She urges us to make the time to use our knowledge of psychodynamic psychotherapy to help traumatized people early in the course of their distress." Lenore Terr MD, psychiatrist, author of Too Scared to Cry "Whenever we walk into a hospital or a doctor's office we often assume that the patients are somehow broken, sick or frightened and that the nurses and doctors are whole, healthy and brave. In stories that prove these assumptions false, Laurie Barkin shows us how permeable the line actually is between the cared for and the caregiver." Cortney Davis, author of The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing

Download or read book Garden Sanctuary Designing for Comfort Wholeness and Connection written by John Beaudry and published by Garden Matters. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel like you are on a gerbil wheel, and just can't get off? Does it feel like life keeps coming at you, leaving no place for you? Do you crave the comfort of a garden?Do you wish you could walk out your door and be surrounded by the restorative powers of Nature? Do you crave a place to connect with something greater than yourself? Maybe you have a backyard and want a garden to relax in, but you don't know how to create it. Garden Sanctuary will guide you in how to envision and create your own connection to Nature. Follow award winning garden designer, John Beaudry's process to discover: - Your own sense of design--you really do have one! - How the principals of Arts and Crafts style transform space - The language of design - Howto measure, draw to scale, and create abase plan - Howto organize space using bubble diagrams, grid lines, and layers - Howto choose the right plant for the right space - The joy, peace, and harmony that a garden--just outside your door--can provide Garden Sanctuary distills the design process into a series of concrete steps that you can use to create exquisite gardens in harmony with their environment. You will immediately feel yourself relaxing, your body being regulated, whole in the arms of Nature.

Download or read book The Comfort Book written by Matt Haig and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Profound, witty and uplifting' Observer 'Full of eloquent, cogent and positive reminders of the beauty of life' Independent The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times and suggestions for making the bad days better. Drawing on maxims, memoir and the inspirational lives of others, these meditations offer new ways of seeing ourselves and the world. This is the book to pick up when you need the wisdom of a friend, the comfort of a hug or a reminder that hope comes from unexpected places.

Download or read book Garden Psalms written by Honor Books and published by Honor Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deepest desires of the heart are explored through Psalms that teach us lessons of life from the beauty of a garden . . . that help us discover the beacon of guidance from a lighthouse . . . that encourage us to celebrate the wonder of love. The stunning imagery and poetic expressions of the Psalms have inspired and transformed the hearts of countless souls through the centuries. Now Honor Books, the leading publisher of gift devotionals, has added exquisite full-color art and heart-stirring prayers with selections from best-loved Psalms. God has been providing for the daily needs of His children since the Garden of Eden. Readers will find He promises to bless them daily out of His abundance through which they can enjoy the peace and comfort of His presence. Each devotion will give the reader another look at the richness and abundance of living and walking in the will of God.

Download or read book Otter Finds the Comfort Garden written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Garden Home Builder written by William Tyler Miller and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Otter Finds the Comfort Garden written by Kelly Oriard and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promotes: Coping Skills, Building Connections, Routines "Otter Finds the Comfort Garden" supports readers in learning the routine of comforting their big feelings when they are upset. In this story, Otter uses a comfort space and remembers her heart connections before returning to class to learn.

Download or read book House Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Garden and Forest written by Charles Sprague Sargent and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal of horticulture, landscape art, and forestry.

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Download or read book Country Life in America written by Liberty Hyde Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Rooftop Gardens written by Denise LeFrak Calicchio and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases some of the best outdoor spaces of New York City through breathtaking full-color photographs--from the lush produce garden of Eli's Vinegar factory to a beautiful flower garden enclosed in a glass conservatory atop Park Avenue.

Download or read book Play and Wellbeing written by Cindy Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of increasingly patient-centered healthcare, understanding how health and illness play out in social context is vital. This volume opens a unique window on the role of play in health and wellbeing in widely varied contexts, from the work of Patch Adams as a hospital clown, to an Australian facility for dementia treatment, to a New Zealand preschool after an earthquake, to a housing complex where Irish children play near home. Across these and other featured studies, play is shown to be shaman-like in its transformative dynamics, marshaling symbolic resources to re-align how patients construe and experience illness. Even when illness is not an issue, play promotes wellbeing by its power to reimagine, invigorate, enliven and renew through sensory engagement, physical activity, and symbolism. Play levels social barriers and increases flexible response, facilitating both shared social support and creative reassessment. This book challenges assumptions that play is inefficient and unproductive, with highly relevant evidence that playful processes actually work hard to dislodge unproductive approaches and thereby aid resilience. Solid research evidence in this book charts the course and opens the agenda for taking play seriously, for the sake of health. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Play.