» self help http://blog.caringbridge.org Thu, 23 May 2013 19:44:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Stories of illness and the capacity to empower, inspire, and heal http://blog.caringbridge.org/stories-of-illness-and-the-capacity-to-empower-inspire-and-heal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stories-of-illness-and-the-capacity-to-empower-inspire-and-heal http://blog.caringbridge.org/stories-of-illness-and-the-capacity-to-empower-inspire-and-heal/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 02:57:50 +0000 Darci Schummer http://blog.devsvd.cbeagan.org/?p=51 I am a fiction writer and educator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I teach at the Loft Literary Center, a nonprofit organization offering writing classes. I first became interested in the topic of healing when I heard an interview with Siddhartha Mukherjee. He commented on the relationship between narrative and illness. In his book The Emperor of All Maladies, he writes, “A patient, long before he becomes the subject of medical scrutiny, is, at first, simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering—a traveler who has visited the kingdom of the ill.” Dealing with health conditions is often compared to a [...]

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]]> http://blog.caringbridge.org/stories-of-illness-and-the-capacity-to-empower-inspire-and-heal/feed/ 8 3 new ways to think about stress and find peace of mind http://blog.caringbridge.org/3-new-ways-to-think-about-stress-and-find-peace-of-mind/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-new-ways-to-think-about-stress-and-find-peace-of-mind http://blog.caringbridge.org/3-new-ways-to-think-about-stress-and-find-peace-of-mind/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:03:41 +0000 Gregory Jones http://blog.devsvd.cbeagan.org/?p=55 Have you ever thought to yourself, “If only I could rid myself of all the stress in my life, everything would be so much better?” How many times have you heard that stress is harmful and something to be avoided at all cost?  Quote Anthologist Terri Guillemets offers this: “Stress is the trash of modern life—we all generate it but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.” Yet, there you are, bombarded with interruptions of your attention and time, — physical challenges, family duties, your job, community and kids — all contending [...]

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