Partners in Healing

Simple Ways to Offer Support, Comfort, and Care to a Loved One Facing Illness

By William Collinge, PhD

$21.95
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9781590304150
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Trumpeter
12/09/2008
Pages: 240
Size: 6 x 9
ISBN: 9781590304150
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This book offers a new sense of empowerment for the intimate partners of people living with serious health problems. Collinge draws on cutting-edge scientific research along with his experience counseling couples facing serious illness to offer a range of insights, strategies, and techniques that caregivers can utilize to promote their partners’ physical and emotional well-being—while also promoting their own.

Topics include:


  • The importance of self-care for the caring partner

  • Ways of involving family and friends in a network of support

  • Simple massage and touch techniques to bring comfort and reduce symptoms

  • How open, affirmative communication can contribute to healing

  • Basic energy-healing techniques to promote well-being