Transforming Suffering Series

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Transforming Suffering While Caring for Others

Emotional and spiritual pain impacts our health and well-being as much as physical illness. Growing research from the health care sciences points to measurable benefits when the underlying causes of suffering are diagnosed and responded to. This series offers lessons and simple practices for choosing healing attitudes in the face of illness and suffering. Total person wellness always includes a sense of meaning, hope, healthy relationships and the capacity for forgiveness. These same qualities are the antidotes to emotional suffering and spiritual pain. Here are some important ways that caregivers and those we care for can become medicine for each other.

Course Presenter

Richard Groves is an author, international lecturer, media producer and co-Founder of the Sacred Art of Living Center in Bend, Oregon with his late wife, Mary, sacredartofliving.org. He is currently the creator and executive producer of the Soul & Science project.

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Course Content

Lesson 1: Suffering
Ways that healing is always possible even when curing is not.

  • Instructions
  • Take Five for Caregivers Video
    06:54
  • Learning Guide Quiz
  • Best Practices Quiz
  • Recommended Books
  • Recommended Videos
  • Recommended Web Materials & Journal Articles

Lesson 2: Meaning
Exploring the relationship between clear meaning and wellness.

Lesson 3: Forgiveness
The power of letting go is essential for well-being and recovery.

Lesson 4: Relatedness
Learning how to relate to sickness and suffering in new ways.

Lesson 5: Hope
Asking courageous questions in the face of life’s greatest challenges.

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