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    The Caregiver's Tao Te Ching: Compassionate Caring for Your Loved Ones and Yourself
    The Caregiver's Tao Te Ching: Compassionate Caring for Your Loved Ones and Yourself
    The Caregiver's Tao Te Ching: Compassionate Caring for Your Loved Ones and Yourself
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    The Caregiver's Tao Te Ching: Compassionate Caring for Your Loved Ones and Yourself

    By William Martin and Nancy Martin

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    Those who care for the ailing, whether helping someone recover, grapple with a long-term disability, or face a terminal illness, often feel alone, overwhelmed, exhausted. William and Nancy Martin have worked as counselors, hospice trainers, and Zen guides — and as caregivers to Nancy’s late mother. With empathy and insight, they offer readers solace drawn from the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching.



    Like the original Chinese text, this book contains eighty-one chapters. Each chapter includes a poem for caregivers, evocative of the verses of the Tao Te Ching, followed by a reflection that presents practical guidance for navigating the emotional and physical hardships of caregiving. The resulting resource gently awakens readers to the grace, growth, and even joy possible at each step along their path.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew World Library
    Release dateJan 3, 2011
    ISBN9781577318897
    The Caregiver's Tao Te Ching: Compassionate Caring for Your Loved Ones and Yourself
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    William Martin

    WILLIAM MARTIN is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen novels, an award-winning PBS documentary on the life of George Washington, and a cult-classic horror film, too. In novels like Back Bay, City of Dreams, The Lost Constitution, The Lincoln Letter, and Bound for Gold, he has told stories of the great and the anonymous of American history, and he's taken readers from the deck of the Mayflower to 9/11. His work has earned him many accolades and honors, including the 2005 New England Book Award, the 2015 Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the 2019 Robert B. Parker Award. He and his wife live near Boston, where he serves on the boards of several cultural and historical institutions, and he has three grown children.

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