Simple lessons for a better life : unexpected inspiration from inside the nursing home /
"From the unique experiences of nursing home residents, an empathic psychologist derives lessons for living a better life, demonstrating how people find happiness, peace, and fulfillment despite challenging circumstances. Perfect for readers who seek inspiration for living a better life at any...
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| Language: | English |
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Amherst, New York :
Prometheus Books,
2015
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Suffering is optional
- Social Security
- Humpty Dumpty or Bionic Man?
- Loss: subtraction and addition
- Phantom pain
- Best damn health plan
- Noblesse oblige
- Think small for success
- I touch them all and never lift a finger
- The ultimate renewable resource: love
- The most important decisions you will ever make: forgiveness, acceptance, and attitude
- Pump the brakes
- Finding my religion
- A body on loan
- The ghost in the broken machine
- Everybody wants to be loved; nobody wants to be lovable
- Feelings: our true colors
- Circle of life
- Turn off, unplug, drop out
- Family matters
- Mental exercise is brain surgery
- Animal magnetism
- It's nothing personal
- Disconnect
- Hard love
- Act now!
- One mother can take care of five children, but five children can't take care of one mother
- Outside in
- Lessons learned.
