Resilient and Sustainable Caring: Your Guide To Thrive While Helping Others

Resilient and Sustainable Caring: Your Guide to Thriving While Helping Others

This book is for caregivers, including family caregivers, healthcare workers, first responders, veterinarians, animal welfare workers, clergy, hospice personnel, social workers, home healthcare providers, and educators.

Written by Dr. Karen Schuder, Resilient and Sustainable Caring is an essential resource for anyone who cares for others. It's a book that you'll refer to again and again as you navigate the challenges of caregiving.

Here are some of the things you'll learn in this book:

• How to identify the signs of burnout and compassion fatigue
• How to develop healthy coping mechanisms
• How to bring out your strength with core values and purpose
• How to build strong support networks
• How to set healthy boundaries and say no
• How to find joy in your caregiving role
• How to recover from loss
• How to deal with conflict

Dr. Schuder's approach is based on sound research and her own decades of experience working with caregivers. She offers a variety of tools and techniques that you can use to build your caregiving resilience and sustainability. Resilient and Sustainable Caring is a comprehensive guide that will help you stay resilient and sustainable in your caregiving role and provides practical strategies for:

• Managing stress and burnout
• Building strong relationships
• Promoting your best, balanced self
• Decreasing anxiety
• Fostering self-care and self-compassion

Resilient and Sustainable Caring is a practical and inspiring guide that will help you thrive as a caregiver!

Karen Schuder, Ed.D, M.Div., M.A.M. has extensive experience helping people deal with trauma, coaching others to function at their best, and leading organizations. She has developed and led a wellness program for medical residents, provides leadership development in Honduras, and promotes resilience in educational settings as well as private practices. Karen has an educational doctorate in leadership with research on ethics and professional development. Additional areas of experience include countering compassion fatigue, increasing cultural competency, handling conflict, shaping organizational culture, and applying Family Systems Theory to leadership. Karen is focused on supporting people who help others, because she knows how rewarding and challenging this can be.