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Janet reflects on Finding Meaning with Charles...
CAREGIVING AFFIRMATION
No matter how overwhelmed you are, make a commitment to keep your spirits high.
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T E S T I M O N I A L S
"I have been meaning to write you and tell you that through your book, Charles and you have been an inspiration to me. I have been taking care of my wife several years now and as you especially know, sometimes you just get tired out and want to throw your hands up. Well, since reading your book and reading what you and Charles went through and how you two handled the adversity, it inspires me to go on."
-- Bob Dunn, caregiver of wife Virginia
"Your story is consoling and encouraging because it reminds me that my current trials are not unique and that others have experienced the same thing and survived to live a full and happy life again."
-- Ed Morrison, caregiver of wife Carol
"Janet, sharing the very intimate details of your journey made me feel like a close friend; I shared your frustrations, joys and ultimately your grief. i never met Charles, but I have now. I think anyone who reads this very personal story will, like I have, 'Find Meaning with Charles.'"
-- Jim Weakley, Chaplain, Arkansas Department of Health Hospice
"One of the things your story amply indicates is that there are as many ways to deal with such horrors as there are people experiencing them. You certainly tried and exhausted a huge number of options and in the end succeeded in doing what you wanted for Charles. And you survived with such compassion and energy still alive that you were able to share it with others. I know very many will be helped, guided and comforted by your words."
-- Karin Barron, Spokane, WA
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JANET'S BOOKS and AUDIO BOOKS
BOOK: Finding Meaning With Charles: Caregiving With Love Through a Degenerative Disease
By Janet Edmunson
$15.95
Janet's inspiring new title was drawn from experiences over the five years she spent caring for and learning from her husband's degenerative disease. The book is positive, uplifting and includes affirmations for caregivers, designed to support and strengthen all those who are caring for those touched by health issues.
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MP3 AUDIO BOOK: Finding Meaning With Charles: Caregiving With Love Through a Degenerative Disease
By Janet Edmunson
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T E S T I M O N I A L
"Listening to your book on the MP3 player on my way to and from work each day for a week made my day and confirmed what an inspiration you are to the rest of us!"
-- Anne Marie McDermott, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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PRESENTATION CDs
Presentation: Affirm Yourself for Caregiver Challenges
By Janet Edmunson
Audio CD $15.00
Description: Each person with a degenerative or chronic disease presents unique issues that can challenge family and professional caregivers alike. Janet presents ideas and solutions for these distinctive care needs by using poignant stories, affirmations and personal exploration. She shares strategies to help family and professional caregivers flourish in the midst of caregiving challenges. This presentation was recorded at the Caregiver Conference hosted by the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Total running time: 77 minutes.
Presentation: Importance of Positive Emotions for Caregivers
By Janet Edmunson
Audio CD $15.00
Description: Poor emotional health and depression can weaken professional and family caregivers when faced with the day-to-day challenges of caregiving. Thinking patterns -- including pessimism, inflexibility, and mindless reactivity -- weaken their ability to confront these problems. However, research in positive psychology demonstrates that healthier thinking styles can be learned that foster creativity, engagement and resilience. This presentation uses science, poignant personal stories and practical, hands-on exercises to establish an awareness of the power of emotional health. This presentation was recorded at the Caregiver Conference hosted by the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Total running time: 77 minutes.
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FREE WEBINAR EVENT: Reduce Unneeded Negativity -- for Caregivers, April 3, 2012. Held at 7:00pm Eastern, 6:00pm Central, 5:00pm Mountain and 4:00pm Pacific
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WEBINAR RECORDING: Importance of Positive Emotions for Caregivers
By Janet Edmunson
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Description: Janet describes new research in positive psychology and how positive emotions can help buoy up caregivers in the midst of difficulties and challenges. This session is an overview of these concepts which are applicable to all caregivers. Total running time: 30 minutes.
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WEBINAR RECORDING: Techniques to Increase Positivity for Caregivers, Session 1
By Janet Edmunson
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Description: Next in her series on positive emotions for caregivers, Janet provides practical ideas for increasing positivity in your life amidst caregiving challenges. These include ways to find positive meaning, savor goodness and count your blessings. Whether you are an optimist, pessimist or somewhere in between, these strategies can strengthen you for the daily challenges of caregiving. Total running time: 30 minutes.
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WEBINAR RECORDING: Techniques to Increase Positivity for Caregivers, Session 2
By Janet Edmunson
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Description: Continuing in this series, Janet discusses additional practical techniques that caregivers can use to counter balance the sometimes difficult daily responsibilities of caring for a loved one. She'll draw from the scientific field of positive psychology to explore skills to increase positive emotions such as giving and receiving kindness, hanging on to passions and connecting with others in spite of the limitations caregivers struggle with for time, energy and interest. Total running time: 30 minutes.
$10.00 / Audio CD Format
WEBINAR RECORDING: Techniques to Increase Positivity for Caregivers, Session 3
By Janet Edmunson
Available in Audio CD Format
Description: In the next webinar of this series, Janet encourages caregivers in ways to counter balance the struggles of caregiving with practical skills from the scientifically studied field of positive psychology. She shares her personal caregiving stories while offering skills such as applying your strengths, finding things to look forward to and having adventures -- all of which can increase your positivity in the midst of caregiving challenges. Total running time: 30 minutes.
$10.00 / Audio CD Format
WEBINAR RECORDING: Positive Emotions and High Performing Workplaces
By Janet Edmunson, M.Ed., and John Weaver, Ph.D.
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OTHER BOOKS
Wise Women Speak: Changes Along the Path
Compiled by Fern Carness, MPH, RN and Lisa Edwards, MBA, RD
$21.95 -- NOW $15.95 special online price!
Twenty courageous, determined women open their hearts and tell their stories of inner wisdom and strength, tragedy and triumph of the unconquerable spirit in this, their book of the WISE WOMEN SPEAK series. Take this journey and learn from unforgettable life stories about navigating the changes along life's path as stumbling blocks become stepping stones.
Janet contributed a chapter, "Precious Lessons," to this fine anthology of healing wisdom.
Paradoxes of Leadership: Reflections from twenty years of managing a highly participative company
By Charles R. Edmunson
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Ordering information: Visit www.nceo.org.
This 82-page book was Charles Edmunson's final gift to workers and leaders everywhere. Started when he was well into the debilitating illness that would take his life, Paradoxes of Leadership is a distillation of the wisdom, insight, and passion Charles brought to management and leadership. In it, Charles discusses 14 paradoxes that define his philosophy of leadership. For instance, the first paradox is that "we have more influence when we listen than when we tell." By listening, we gain respect from those with whom we interact, allowing us to be listened to when we most need it. We also have the chance to learn to make us better informed leaders in the future.
The book is a true labor of love. Unable to write, and, increasingly, finding it difficult even to talk, Charles dedicated himself to dictating his thoughts to Loren Rodgers, a close colleague in the employee ownership community, who made weekly trips to Framingham, MA to listen to Charles. These extensive notes were then written up by Corey Rosen of the National Center for Employee Ownership, which also laid out the book and had it printed, to form the final product.
Paradoxes of Leadership has earned well-deserved and widespread praise. Whether being used as a text at Boston College, as a guide for leadership, or an inspiration for anyone interested in Charles' life, it is an uplifting book. The final paradox of the book is that "a full life is achieved not by grasping but by giving." This act of giving by Charles can help make all of our lives fuller.
READERS' COMMENTS -- Finding Meaning With Charles
This uplifting book will encourage caregivers to make the most of their situation, help them understand the difficulties they'll face, and teach them what they can do to help their loved one achieve personal aspirations. Finding Meaning with Charles -- Caregiving With Love Through a Degenerative Disease, helps caregivers sustain themselves and remain strong for their family members during times when they can easily find themselves worn out. A "must read" for caregivers of degenerative neurological diseases.
-- Richard Gordon Zyne, D.Min.
Executive Director, Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
"I have walked in Janet's shoes as a caregiver. Caregiving is a true test of love and endurance. As a caregiver, you will be overwhelmed. This book will give you an incredible sense of peace and acceptance and the affirmations will bring you comfort. I wish the book were available when I struggled with my journey."
-- Patti Ryan, loving companion and caregiver for Leo Hamel during his neurological disease.
"This is a disarmingly honest remembrance of one couple's very special journey in dealing with an incredibly complicated disease process which ultimately resulted in death. Its strength is its ability to unlock the reader's vulnerabilities as the sharing of everyday details are interwoven with larger spiritual understandings regarding the nature of disease, loss, relationship. The author has used the complexity and richness of the experience to "make meaning" and to accomplish the difficult task in grief of holding the past and bringing it forward to the now."
-- Edith L. Murray, Hospice Administrator, Wayside Hospice, Wayland, MA
READERS' COMMENTS -- Paradoxes of Leadership
"If Paradoxes of Leadership helps even one reader to understand, accept and improve leadership effectiveness, it will be a leadership lesson of the highest order, given from the perspective of a full life, and from the heart of Charles' Final Paradox: A Full Life is Achieved Not By Grasping, But By Giving. Charles has given us a gift for the new millennium, and beyond...."
-- Stephen C. Sheppard
CEO, Foldcraft
"Last week I had the opportunity to read a draft of Charles' Paradoxes of Leadership. As each of the fourteen paradoxes have been lived out in his life, we too have been drawn to experiment and learn to live out these paradoxes as well. They need to be deeply rooted in all of our relationships."
-- Bob Fulton
Chairman and Founder of Web Industries
"Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Charles Edmunson over the years understand upon reading his book, Paradoxes of Leadership, that is not another theoretical treatise on leadership. Rather, his fourteen paradoxes are at their best an autobiographical reflection on the requisite leadership skills that Charles has experienced and learned while developing as an effective and successful leader."
-- Richard Duffy
President of Ownership Visions
"Being an effective nurturer, leader, and developer of others requires great skill. Charles is a person driven to excel, and he has worked diligently to learn for himself and then teach others. Even as Charles fights valiantly to rise above his disease that is slowly claiming his life, he is Charles, unselfishly and graciously teaching us about how to live and be effective for one another."
-- Donnie Romine
President of Web Industries
"Reading this book reminds me that his power to teach is unstoppable. Even this unjust disease does not prevent him from being the great leader that he is."
-- June Sekera, Business Consultant
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