Journal of Sacred Work

Caregivers have superpowers! Radical Loving Care illuminates the divine truth that caregiving is not just a job. It is Sacred Work.

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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

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About

Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

Category: Meditations

  • Days 165-167 Open Forum

    You are invited to contribute your thoughts for caregiver through the Journal by clicking on Comments, below. Thank you,Erie

  • Day 164 – Centered in the Both/And

    “Just because a rose has thorns does not mean that it needs to be fixed! The thorns tell us that all beauty in this creation is to be handled with love, care, attention, and the respect inherent in the present moment.”

  • Days 162-163 – The Immovable Center

    Find your immovable center and you can survive anything.  – Joseph Campbell    Does Campbell’s statement ring true for you? Perhaps, in order to find our "immovable center" we need to have experienced things that shake this center to its foundations. What are the earthquakes that have attacked your sense of balance?   As someone who…

  • Day 161 – Summer Sunday on a Monday

    You will know about my Sunday morning if you listen with the white ears of the oak-leaf hydrangea

  • Days 158-160 – Open Forum

    Click on Comments, below, to share any thoughts you would like to offer to other caregivers.

  • Day 157 – Gifts of Hope and Faith

    Are there hopes and dreams alive in you for the difference Love can make in your work, in this world? I admit to days of discouragement and sometimes a readiness to walk away – frankly at times I think it’d be great to just run away. Maybe that’s just the child in me that feels…

  • Day 156 – 2nd Anniversary

    The truth is that essays on loving care often have trouble finding an audience.

  • Day 155 – the Beloved Community

    Caring circles are designed to support not task work but compassion work. King wrote that “something must happen so as to touch the hearts and souls of [people] that they will come together, not because the law says it, but because it is natural and right…our ultimate goal is…inter-group and inter-personal living.”

  • Day 154

    caregivers can shed tears whenever the situation calls for it, if they receive from their work settings the kind of caring circle group support we advance as part of the work of Radical Loving Care.

  • Days 151-153 – Open Forum

    You are invited to post any thoughts you would like to share with your fellow caregivers by clicking on Comments, below.Thank you and have a Joyful Weekend.-erie