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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Note: Excerpt from the writing of David Whyte " The World Also Has a Soul." "The first step to preserving the soul in our individual lives is to admit that the world has a soul also, and is somehow participating with us in our work and destiny. That there is a sacred otherness…
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Earth’s hells are the asylums of the sick & wounded. Caregivers descend there each day to rescue us from our suffering.
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By the late John O' Donohue “On this Easter, let us look again at the lives we have been so generously given and let us let fall away the useless baggage that we carry – old pains, old habits, old ways of seeing and feeling – and let us have the courage to begin…
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Joseph Campbell defined a symbol as “an energy evoking, and directing, agent.” Hospitals & hospices signal anxiety. The right symbols help Compassion defeat Fear opening the door to healing.
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"No act of kindness no matter how small…is ever wasted." -Aesop An empathetic gesture, a word of caring or a random act of kindness can awaken one's heart. These experiences evoke a metamorphosis of sorts. Yet it is a very private experience, a tenderness that is often not allowed to surface because we avoid touching upon the…
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Words matter. Seeing a beach as “just sand” blocks Beauty’s embrace. Caregivers who label patients cannot heal. Compassionate language helps caregivers become healers.
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What gives you hope? Is it the dawning of a new day or the twilight of stars first twinklings? A stranger's smile as you glimpse each other's soul in passing or quiet moments of solitude? What gives me hope is seeing the Light of Love in the eyes in every person…
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There is a genius living in my backyard. It is this Willow Leaf Oak. He features his own brain & a trunk stronger than Goliath. Pansies adore him.
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Note: David Whyte's poetry, shared by Liz Sorensen Wessel l Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest breathing like the ones in the old stories who could cross a shimmering bed of dry leaves without a sound, you come to a place whose only task is to trouble you with tiny but frightening requests conceived…
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Offer loving care to patients for your own benefit, not just for the patient. Caregivers tell me that when they do that they feel…more content.
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