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We are thrilled to receive a starred review for The Last Things We Talk About: Your Guide to End of Life Transitions by Elizabeth Boatwright from Library Journal.
An excerpt: "VERDICT Excellent in every way; recommended for all libraries, and readers facing end-of-life challenges."
The full review is now available on the Library Journal website.
Thank you to the School Library Journal for including WORKING WITH WORRY in their recent feature.
12 Books to Get Parents Through COVID-19 and Beyond
They describe WORKING WITH WORRY as a, "hands-on workbook on coping with anxiety, chock-full of ideas that are easy to understand and implement."
The new edition of Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Pain, 2nd Edition will be ready to ship on June 11, 2021.
In this new second edition, the authors have carefully developed and improved every chapter.
Packed with useful advice, tips, strategies, and positive reinforcement, the book empowers readers to become their own informed pain self-managers.
- An updated and scientifically sound discussion of pain in Chapter 1 that gives readers the information they need to best manage their personal pain.
- An updated resources chapter with a useful emphasis on how to find and judge online resources.
- New more in-depth coverage of mental health issues related to pain, including depression, anger, fear, guilt, stress, and memory problems.
- An all-new chapter, Organizing and Pacing Your Life for Pain Self-Management and Safety that includes thorough, well-illustrated information on using assistive technology.
- Completely rewritten exercise chapters with clearer illustrations to help readers build their own exercise program, step-by-step. This chapter also discusses taking advantage of exercise opportunities in the community.
- An updated communication chapter to assist readers as they navigate through the health care system, featuring helpful tips on remote communication as well as in-person visits.
- Another all-new chapter, Managing Pain During Employment and Unemployment, sensitively addresses the issues connected with experiencing pain in the workplace.
- Two completely updated chapters on weight management and nutrition that discuss the relationship between pain and nutrition and reflect current government standards and the most recent research.
The Moving Easy Program audio is included with the book.
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We are excited to be publishing The Last Things We Talk About by Elizabeth Boatwright, DMin, BCC-PCHAC, CFP®.
The book will be available on April 6, 2021.
The Last Things We Talk About gives readers and their loved ones the opportunity as death approaches to affirm, celebrate, and remember the people and experiences they cherish in life.
The author guides readers step-by-step through the process of making aging and death-related decisions. This includes defining personal values and wishes as well as planning for practical medical, financial, and legal considerations.
This book will help readers:
- Identify the people, experiences, and things that are important to them and help define and celebrate what gives life meaning and purpose
- Discover and define their goals and wishes regarding transitions, support, and the legacy they wish to leave behind
- Understand important topics such as legal, financial, and medical documents, the continuum of care, and end-of-life decisions
- Find professionals to help them put together inventories for financial, legal, and practical matters
- Explore options and plan for culturally and spiritually sensitive end-of-life rituals and celebrations
- Learn what needs to be done after death and how survivors can begin to piece their lives back together
Dr. Boatwright was recently a guest on the Financially Mindful Podcast. It's available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
In this episode of The Financially Mindful Podcast, Reverend Libby Boatwright, Palliative and Outpatient Chaplain for Stanford Health Care and author of The Last Things We Talk About, shares her wealth of experience in end of life and legacy planning, touching on advanced directives, inventories, and legacy conversations. What is end of life planning? Where do I start? How can I help my family prepare financially for end of life?
These questions and more are answered in this episode of The Financially Mindful Podcast.
Dan is Founder and CEO of CanopyLife, a platform committed to building families’ financial resilience to deal with major life events. Dan founded CanopyLife after experiencing the financial and emotional cost of losing his dad to cancer, and wanting to help families avoid the same pitfalls. A Kellogg School of Management grad, Dan previously led new product development at Capital One and has nearly a decade of experience working in product development at startups focused on consumer, fintech and insurtech. In a prior life, Dan was a consultant at BCG and worked in Equities for Goldman Sachs and ABNAMRO.
Jim Grace is the Director of Wealth Management at Silver Pine Capital in Medfield, Massachusetts. Jim has more than a decade of experience in the financial services industry, leading Silver Pine’s financial planning and broader wealth management service offering. He has worked for MetLife and has managed for First Niagara (LPL Financial) and United Northeast Financial Advisors (Infinex Investments). He is father to two children.
About our Guest: Rev. Libby Boatwright is Chaplain for Outpatient Oncology Palliative Medicine for Stanford Health Care in Palo Alto, California. With a financial planning certification, Dr. Boatwright desires to be a catalyst for fiscally responsible and sustainable change in care systems involving community, medical, and spiritual centers. She is the author of The Last Things We Talk About: Your Guide to End of Life Transitions, an upcoming book about figuring out what brings you meaning and purpose and how to plot a fiscally feasible path to get there.
Insight from this episode:Dr. Boatwright’s expert advice and recommendations for end of life planning, from the legal and practical to emotional and spiritual. Strategies to starting the end of life planning conversation with loved ones and deciding on the most appropriate plan.How to “have your house in order” and prepare for end of life and legacy planning before it is too late. Details on what needs to be taken care of first in the case of an unexpected medical event.
What to listen? Find it on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
This post was first published on the Evidence-Based Leadership Collaborative website.
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Kate Lorig, DrPH
The Jewish News of Northern California interviewed our author Kate Lorig:
Q&A: She teaches people with serious diseases how to help themselves
Lorig and her co-authors have just published the new edition of Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions. Learn about the changes to the new edition.
The new edition of Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions is now ready to ship.
Chapter 1: Self-Management: What Is It and How Can You Do It?
Chapter 3: Finding Resources
Chapter 4: Understanding and Managing Common Conditions
Chapter 5: Understanding and Managing Common Symptoms and Emotions
Chapter 9: Freedom and Safety
Chapter 10: Healthy Eating
Chapter 13: Managing Your Treatment Decisions and Medications
Chapter 14: Managing Diabetes
Chapter 15: Working and Living with Chronic Conditions
The new edition of Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions is coming in January 2020.
Every chapter in the new edition is completely revised and updated, many with the help of content specialists. There is also a new self-test for readers to help them understand how to best apply the concepts in the book to their own lives.
Important things to note about the new edition:
CBS4 health correspondent in Denver, Kathy Walsh, recently ran a segment on our newest book, OVERCOMING POSITIONAL VERTIGO.
The book is available to order now!
We offer free shipping on 1-2 copies and 20% on all orders through our website.
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV, is the medical term for dizziness caused by loose crystals in the inner ear. It affects more than eight million people in the United States alone.
Carol A. Foster, a Professor Emerita of Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine, developed a maneuver that allows sufferers to treat their own symptoms.
Her YouTube video demonstrating the Half Somersault maneuver has been viewed over five million times.
Carol A. Foster, a Professor Emerita of Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine, developed a maneuver that allows sufferers to treat their own symptoms.
