Someone to Watch Over You: Finding your strength within - Softcover

Reed, Ellen J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1734840501 ISBN 13: 9781734840506

Publisher: Paraclete Publications, 2020

Synopsis

If you believe that meaningful change can come out of kindness and understanding, and that some of the worst situations can produce personal growth, "Someone to Watch Over You ~ Finding your strength within" will solidify those beliefs and empower you to significantly enrich your life and the love you give and receive. Author Ellen J. Reed, MBA, MSN, RN, PMHCNS-BC, serves as a Paraclete, one who moves close beside you, offering a loving presence and serving as a helper, a counselor, a comforter, and an advocate. She guides you to find strength from within and mend even the deepest hurt through a deeper understanding of self. This book represents her humble effort to put into words a lifetime advocacy that supports the value in taking a sometimes-difficult journey of introspection by acknowledging loss—all in an effort to heal and return back home to the person you want to be.Can you answer "yes" to any of these questions?•Have you had an experience with loss of any kind?•Do you have a life-changing diagnosis?•Has there been a death of a family member, a friend, a pet?•Have you attempted to avoid the pain of grief?•Did you lose your job, an ideal, or a dream for your future?•Are you struggling with infertility or have had a pregnancy loss?•Have you retired and are struggling to understand your worth and your "new" normal?•Are you afraid to love and commit to another person?

About this title

About the Author

Ellen J. Reed, MBA, MSN, RN, PMHCNS-BC, is an advanced practice nurse, specializing in psycho-behavioral aspects of the adult. Her advanced degrees and certifications have always been aimed at providing her the competence to guide her clients and colleagues through increased self-awareness, change, and experiences of grief and loss.
 
Ellen served as a clinical nurse specialist for over 40 years including 10 years as a psychiatric consultation liaison nurse for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While there, she was referred by physicians and nurses to intervene with patients and families facing traumatic and progressive illnesses in one of their many critical care units and their Cancer Center. Ellen also addressed the extreme stress in providing care or being a caregiver when hope for improvement was not likely.
 
Ellen created a private practice using Grief and Loss, Nursing, and Gestalt Theory as a foundation where she encouraged clients to address issues by honoring their past while owning their present. She advocated the benefit of being in touch with both thoughts and feelings, with the understanding that many areas of discontent relate back to unfinished business and unresolved grief.
 
Someone to Watch Over You is Reed's humble effort to put into words a lifetime advocacy that supports individuals and groups taking a (sometimes) difficult journey of introspection. Through her years of serving as a therapist and consultant, she hopes to educate readers on the importance of improving self-awareness, discovering what makes you unique, and helping you to consider the person you want to be.

From the Back Cover

"Ellen Reed writes a book that is full of clinical knowledge, wisdom, experience, and full of personal anecdotes that shows she has put her vast studies into practical use. Far more than a self-help book, Someone to Watch Over You gives solid insights into how life can be lived in a healthy and joyful way, and she does that by introducing many and varied tools, examples, and exercises. It is about becoming fully and deeply human--warts and all. Knowing Ellen, it comes from her depth of spirituality and connection with God. It is what she wishes for you as well."
-- Reverend Doctor Joel G. Hafer

Edition details

• Publisher: Paraclete Publications
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1734840501
• ISBN 13: 9781734840506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200