Zen Caregiving: How to Care for Yourself While Caring for Others

Rosalynn Carter once said, “There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers.” The past decade has proven her point. Caregivers in the U.S. have grown from 42 million to more than 63 million, with much of that increase coming from family members, who are already stretched thin by fall-time jobs, parenting, and their own health needs.
  
As a longtime caregiver himself – and the executive director of the Zen Caregiving Project – author Roy Remer understands that strain firsthand. He wrote Zen Caregiving: How to Care for Yourself While Caring for Others to provide practical advice, emotional support, and a path to spiritual solace for caregivers who are doing essential work with minimal support.
  
“While long overdue, we are beginning to see greater recognition in media and politics of the pervasiveness of family caregiving and the strain these undervalued caregivers experience,” Remer writes. “The health and wellbeing of formal and informal caregivers, the backbone of our healthcare system, should be of concern to everyone.”
  
Zen Caregiving is a much-needed companion for anyone seeking steadiness, spiritual grounding, and emotional support while caring for a loved one. The book is divided into four sections – Mindfulness, Compassion, Loss, and Intimacy – that include short chapters and simple practices that can be woven into daily life.
  
“My goal in writing this book was to provide access to tools that support the emotional well-being of caregivers,” Remer says. “You do not have to be a student of Zen, or any form of Buddhism, to cultivate and benefit from mindfulness. This book will show you how to develop and sustain mindful awareness in the context of caregiving.”
  
Designed to be motivational, therapeutic, and deeply practical, Zen Caregiving covers:
• how to quiet the “thinking mind” to find solace and stay grounded
• ways to expand compassion, avoid burnout, honor grief, and process loss
• practical advice for medical directives and end-of-life arrangements
• how to make self-care a non-negotiable part of the journey
  
Ultimately, this is a book about self-care,” Remer writes. “It demonstrates ways to tend to your own experienee moment to moment while delivering care to others. I trust that whatever benefits you derive from reading this book will flow even beyond the current care relationship in your life.”

Zen Caregiving by Roy Remer
288 pages - $19.95- ISBN 978-1-60868-953-8
Book Release from New World Library

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240 pages ~ $18.95 ~ ISBN 978-1-60868-930-9
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Heal Your Career Wounds
Navigating the Trauma of Today’s Workplace

It is no secret that corporate work culture has dramatically changed in the past five years. Amid layoffs, hiring freezes, and employment gaps, smart, college-educated workers are facing unprecedented challenges in the job market.

Enter Heal Your Career Wounds: Navigating the Trauma of Today’s Workplace from career coach and holistic healer Mandy Tang, which equips readers with the tools they need to heal from workplace trauma and move forward with clarity, confidence, and agency in their careers.

“A career wound is a deep and painful emotional injury that changes the way you see yourself, diminishes your sense of self, and inhibits your personal growth,’ writes Mandy. “Until we heal these wounds and transmute the negative energy, these experiences will continue to weigh us down.”

Heal Your Career Wounds is for those who are exhausted, disillusioned, or quietly grieving the gap between the career they hoped for and the one they have. Mandy speaks to the people who feel stuck under a toxic boss, trapped by golden handcuffs, lost in analysis paralysis, or constantly battling rumination and self-blame.

Rather than treating burnout as a productivity issue or self-doubt as a mindset problem, Mandy asks readers to consider something much deeper: What if these experiences are emotional injuries? What if what we call “professional setbacks” are actually wounds? And what if the path forward isn’t to work harder, but to heal?

Through journal prompts and reflection exercises, Mandy helps readers:
• Recognize the replication of harmful patterns
• Free themselves of poisonous workplace narratives that are no longer serving them
• Grieve unlived dreams, let go of self-blame, and keep an open heart
• Create their own closure by rewriting their story
• Discover their unique medicine and become the architects of their new relationship to work

“You may feel like every day is the same, nothing will ever change, you have no options, and so you might as well give up,” writes Mandy. “But the truth is, things do change. You do have the power to make decisions (maybe small ones at first, and then larger ones) to take charge of your situation and turn things around.”

About the Author: Mandy Tang is the author of Heal Your Career Wounds, a Career coach and holistic healer. She helps elients from Big Tech, start-ups, and the nonprofit sector bring more creativity and joy into their work lives. Her training includes an MBA in finance from Columbia, certication as a trauma-informed yoga instructor, and completion of a three-year shamanic practitioner program. Mandy runs the popular TikTok account @CareerCoachMandy with over 161K followers, and The Muse named her one of the “Top 20 Career Coaches to Watch” on TikTok. Visit her online at www,mandytang.co

Heal Your Career Wounds by Mandy Tang
217 pages - $19.95- ISBN 978-1-60868-990-3
Book Release from New World Library