The Art and The Tao of Helping Those Who Need Us

This book is a comprehensive guide to visiting and supporting patients in need. It is both an in-depth and upbeat compilation of ideas, struggles, and practical applications that help us address the challenges we face when someone we care for is seriously ill or injured. Whether a patient or visitor, by following even a handful of its many suggestions, we will face our challenges with greater stamina, grace, and joy. Although our need for support is greatest at the start of our journey, Ms. Lea contends there are more life-changing resources available to us than we are aware of and that we can uncover them by making simple changes in what we do and what we think. The most important of these is acceptance. With every challenge and at every turn, she writes, there is the opportunity to start again.