Tears In My Gumbo: The Caregiver's Recipe for Resilience (1) - Softcover

Roberts Cornish, Nadine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998069108 ISBN 13: 9780998069104

Publisher: Caregiver's Guardian PH, 2016

Synopsis

Tears in My Gumbo, The Caregiver's Recipe for Resilience is a heartfelt manuscript that speaks personally and passionately to the 44 million caregivers caught up in the silver tsunami sweeping this country and for all of the people who care about the caregiver. The book inspires and supports caregivers as well as the family unit involved in the loved one's care. Through a series of caregiver stories, the book illustrates the ingredients needed for caregivers to maintain resilience and create a soul nurturing gumbo of care.

Artfully written by caregiver coach and consultant, Nadine Roberts Cornish, CSA, the book shares her personal experience as a caregiver for her mother, which transformed her life as she becomes a care consultant, care manager, and caregiver coach. A native of New Orleans, Nadine shares her rich family heritage simmered in the traditions of gumbo preparation, steeped in love and community, seasoned with wisdom, humor and healing, much like a heaping bowl of Louisiana Seafood Gumbo.

This book inspires and supports caregivers as well as the family unit involved in the loved ones'care. Through a series of inspirational stories, the book illustrates the ingredients needed for caregivers to maintain resilience and create a soul nurturing gumbo of care. Each story teaches a different lesson, demonstrates varying degrees of know how and courage. The 5 steps of Conscious Caregiving are introduced and demonstrated throughout the book. Caregiving is a hodgepodge of feelings, emotions, highs and lows, good intentions and a flurry of activities that are best done in community. It has mysterious ingredients, a number of variables and spices that can slowly but eventually come together to create a symphony of goodness that feeds the soul. It is patience and gratitude that eventually brings you to the simmering point of soul contentment, which fills and nourishes you, bringing peace joy and eventually, understanding.

This book is ultimately about healing, the heart and the spirit of the caregiver. Through the understanding and acceptance of the role of Anam Cara, carer of the soul, the caregiver begins to understand the honor and joy of serving, supporting and caring for a loved one. The heart to heart, soul to soul connection that occurs when you say yes, to caring. The understanding that eventually evolves, sometimes long after the journey has ended.

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Review:

In my 40+ years of clinical practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker,I have not found such an impressive and valuable resource as this book.It is written with sensitivity and expertise. Nadine presents a unique book with compelling vignettes and concrete approaches to caregiving while providing an empathetic and informed guide supporting those who provide compassionate care. JoKatherine Holliman Page, MSW, LCSW Denver, Colorado This book is a great read! It takes our understanding of caregiving to a unique place.This author weaves together a complex tapestry of her experiences as a family caregiver and professional caregiver. She is one of those rare and inherently talented storytellers.This is a wonderful, joyful and hopeful work that will speak to people of all ages and persuasions. Cornish's wealth of deep experience as a caregiver shines through with spiritual strength and integrity.This is a must read for those involved in eldercare as well as for anyone who knows or cares for someone providing care.Take the time to savor this special gumbo. Sue Bozinovski, Ph.D. Facilitator, Denver-Boulder Professional Advancement Certificate in Gerontology I LOVED the stories. Nadine is a warm, rich, deep and lyrical writer. She drew me in with the framing of the stories and her language. My experience was one of curiosity, wonder, compassion, appreciation, joy, sadness, and love. She rang the bell on all of my emotions! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Gumbo metaphor. Each chapter is rich with a personal, deeply touching and therefore, connecting story. Sam Trenka Navigator Coaching and Consulting I thought reading this was going to be hard for me because I envisioned reading facts about a life that I was going to dread. But it was refreshing how it flowed, inspired and gave guidance with simple directives about what caregivers have to encounter and endure. Roslyn Cary, Caregiver Exton, PA I have read through this manuscript three times now, and was never able to read it in one sitting because of the emotions the piece evokes from my life personally.I will tell you I have never read anything that touched me the way this writing has touched me.This is a beautiful tribute to caregivers any and everywhere. Earl X Wright Retiree, Buckley WA The "recipe"is a must for those on the cusp of caregiving or "the chef."I found myself reflecting on my seven years of caregiving to a 105-year young great aunt.This is a necessary handbook in the field of caregiving. Carlotta Walls LaNier Author of A Mighty Long Way Caregiver I planned on reading this slowly over the course of a week but I couldn't put it down and read it in one sitting.This is a book that should be in every household, every physician and clinic waiting room, every home health and hospice agency, and shared with every home palliative care and hospice nurse.This book will surely become tattered as it will be passed on from generation to generation. Eileen Thomas, PhD RN Nursing Professor Community Public Health University of Colorado

About the Author:

Nadine has an extensive background in Public Health and Social Marketing. But it's the 15 years of caring for her mother that changed the trajectory of her life and allowed her to identify the purpose she had been seeking. She launched The Caregiver's Guardian, (TCG) LLC in 2009 where her passion was fully ignited as she became an advocate and helped caregivers first take care of self while providing quality care for a loved one. Nadine has provided care management, training, consulting and coaching services for hundreds of families and has been a crusader for Dementia and Alzheimer's awareness and education. Nadine is both a Connector and an Exhorter. With love, clarity and intuitiveness, she is able to guide the family caregiver through an often difficult and challenging journey transforming problems into solutions. She has expanded her Coaching Services to now include women from all walks of life who are facing challenges, are at an impasse or simply wanting to unlock the brilliance that lies within. Nadine believes that the client is truly the expert in their own life and the answers they seek lie within. She is honored to be a part of the journey that allows her clients to reveal the truth of who they are. Tears In My Gumbo, The Caregiver's Recipe for Resilience is Nadine's inaugural book that depicts the challenges, triumphs, joys and heartaches of caregiving. She creates the recipes needed for navigating the often complex and rewarding journey of caregivers. This soon to be, Best Selling Author is also a Freedom Coach, Elite Life Coach, Certified Senior Advisor, and a dynamic and passionate speaker.

About this edition

• Publisher: Caregiver's Guardian PH
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0998069108
• ISBN 13: 9780998069104
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Schoen Cynthia