Hospices and Caregivers

For Hospices and Other Caregivers

Caregivers have special needs of their own. The following articles are designed to help caregivers take care of themselves as well as those who are suffering from loss.

Companioning the Bereaved: An Introduction
Tenet 1: Companioning Principle
Tenet 2: Companioning Principle
The Awesome Power of “Telling The Story”: Why I’m Proud to be a Grief Counselor
Caregiver as Gardener: A Parable
Companioning vs. Treating: Beyond The Medical Model of Bereavement Caregiving
Growing Through Grief: The Role of Support Groups
Responding to Problems in the Support Group Setting
The Bereavement Caregiver’s Self-Care Guidelines

“Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.”

Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary

“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.”

C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later on. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.”

Ralph Fletcher, Fig Pudding

Hospices / Caregivers

Hospices and Caregivers

For Hospices and Other Caregivers