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Keeping It Together: How to Cope as a Family Caregiver without Losing Your Sanity Kindle Edition

by Eleanor Silverberg (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
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  • Providing a strength enhancing coping regimen that addresses common and often unspoken issues
  • A cocoon in the form of a book allowing for transformation to occur at the reader's pace - self-help at its best
  • Offering exercises that make it a hands-on experience in applying the book's content
A must-read for family caregivers who want to help themselves in enhancing their inner emotional resiliency and personal growth. Keeping It Together (K.I.T.) offers so much to help individuals cope and prevent burnout while providing support and care for aging parents, disabled relatives and family members with chronic illness. You are provided with a regimen to juggle that includes "A" tips for caregiving at your best while maintaining the discipline of self-care. It stands out by recognizing the losses and grief involved while caregiving, helping you to process the losses and grief using the 3-A Coping Framework: #AcknowledgeAssessAssist. By doing so, you are equipped and empowered to tackle the challenges that family caregiving can bring. There are 12 K.I.T. practice exercises that make this a hands-on book, serving to help guide you through the tips and strategies for juggling the coping regimen. By engaging in the content, you have a self-help companion, guide and coach at your fingertips.
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    134 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publication date
    January 26, 2022
  5. File size
    6634 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09RBFBQT7
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 26, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6634 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 134 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

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Harriet W. Hodgson
5.0 out of 5 stars Keeping It Together is a family caregiver's lifeline.
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2017
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Keeping It Together: How to Cope as a Family Caregiver Without Losing Your Sanity is a source of hope. Eleanor Silverberg's three-step program, acknowledge, assess, assist, is insightful and workable. The caregiver role is one that contains grief, according to Silverberg, and she makes this point clearly. She urges beginning and experienced caregivers like me to practice self-care. Her book is well organized, easy to read, contains helpful exercises, and a topical reference list. Keeping It Together is a family caregiver's lifeline--strength for the present, hope for the future.
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4.0 out of 5 stars In her first book, Caregiving with Strength, Eleanor ...
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016
In her first book, Caregiving with Strength, Eleanor Silverberg introduced the 3A Approach to caregiving: Acknowledge, Assess, Assist. In her second book, Keeping It Together: How to Cope as a Family Caregiver without Losing Your Sanity, she shifts focus to the role that grief plays in the lives of family caregivers. More often than not, grief remains unacknowledged or ignored, but processing this grief is essential to the personal growth of those who grieve.

The book outlines the regimen for keeping it together: grief processing, caregiving, and self-care. Each of these sections is replete with coping strategies, personal stories and pictures, and exercises for keeping it together. Eleanor uses the cocoon as a metaphor throughout. Just as many insects enclose themselves in a silky case which they spin for protection as they transition from one life stage to another, she encourages caregivers to create their own cocoon. As children, our parents sheltered and protected us as we navigated the waters of childhood and adolescence. As adults, however, that safe place is one we have to create on our own. Using the coping strategies provided and the 3A tools, we realize that we can adapt and make changes, be resourceful, and create our own personal cocoon where we build strength and resiliency and prevent burnout. Eleanor asks only that we keep an open mind, be willing to consider change, and believe in ourselves.

Keeping It Together reminds us that healing is possible once we come to terms with loss, make sense of it, and integrate it into our present life.

— R. Polera
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Jane Haque
4.0 out of 5 stars For ALL caregivers. Add this to your toolkit.
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2017
Eleanor really cares about caregivers. Both of her books are 'must haves' for the caregiver. And that's not just the professionals - it means all of us that spend hours and energy caring for family members and friends too. Thank you Eleanor for your dedication to supporting those who support. Very timely. Jane H
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robert moulton
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent treatment of the subject of dementia and gives primary ...
Reviewed in Canada on October 12, 2017
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excellent treatment of the subject of dementia and gives primary caregivers some language and concepts to help them understand what is going on inside them and inside the relationship with their spouse. I found it very helpful
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