A Caregiver's Challenge

A Caregiver’s Challenge: Living, Loving, Letting Go
 

By Maryann Schacht, MSW

2005 • 192 pp Revised Second Edition
Paperback • ISBN: 0 9764140 0 7 • $16.95
[$20.95 in Canada] • Hospice Price $9.95

   When someone you love falls seriously ill, your relationship goes into shock. Advice for patients abounds, but caregivers need help, too.
* How do you stay open and loving when fear closes in?
* How do you discuss things you never wanted to talk about?
* How do you learn to accept the unacceptable?
* How can you survive the changes you face?
* How do you help your partner through this final difficult passage?
    A Caregiver’s Challenge offers a road map and survival guide. You’ll discover how to deal with your new role in this book filled with resources, recommendations, exercises, and questions to explore. As she shares her own experiences, Maryann Schacht leads you and supports you through this rough journey.

"...support and guidance along a bumpy road."

“Here is a sensitive, intelligent book on a role that is indeed challenging. Maryann Schacht’s personal story, tracing the difficulties and triumphs in living, loving, and letting go, is woven throughout as a road map and guide. She offers a straight talking, pragmatic view of sensitive issues that come from the authority of one who has walked the path. I alternately learned from her, applauded her, cried with her, as she moved between teacher, caregiver, and fellow traveler offering support and guidance along a bumpy road.”
—Cheryl Canfield, Author of Profound Healing

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Maryann Schacht, MSW, is a psychotherapist with more than 30 years experience. For decades, she has dedicated herself to the needs of caregivers and to helping everyone thrust into this tough role through the challenges they face. Her professional experience includes private and group practice, social work at hospitals and schools, and teaching at universities in both California and New York.