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Rabbi Address’ new book, Seekers of Meaning
Rabbi Richard Address has devoted his career to helping transform synagogues into caring communities. Now, in his most personal work to date, he explores how the notion of a caring community can be transformative for individuals, particularly baby boomers struggling with issues of aging and mortality.
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Category Archives: Thought Pieces
Stress: A Part of Our Lives; A Factor in Our Health; A Potential for Growth and Change (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: This is part two of an excellent review of how stress affects our lives and our health. Part I is available here. This part of the column deals with living in the present moment as a way to … Continue reading
Posted in Health and Wellness Programs, Thought Pieces
Tagged change, chronic, growth, health, managing stress, rechtschaffen, selye, stress, wellness
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Rabbi Address gives Third Annual Steve Jeffers Lecture on Spirituality in Health at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Kansas
In this podcast recorded from the Third Annual Steve Jeffers Lecture on Spirituality in Health at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Rabbi Address defines the new life-cycle stage emerging in today’s society: the caregiver. For many, this entails a balancing act … Continue reading
Posted in Speaking appearances, Thought Pieces
Tagged shawnee mission, smmc.org, spirituality, steve jeffers lecture
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Stress: A Part of Our Lives; A Factor in Our Health; A Potential for Growth and Change (Part 1)
Editor’s Note: This is part one of an excellent review of how stress affects our lives and our health. Part II is available here. Stress is definitely a part of our lives. It is often unavoidable and can sometimes be … Continue reading
Posted in Health and Wellness Programs, Thought Pieces
Tagged change, chronic, growth, health, managing stress, rechtschaffen, selye, stress, wellness
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Hope in the Midst of Illness
Hope is a crucial part of facing and coping with a medical illness. It can not only help a patient survive; it can also promote healing. Hope paves the way toward resilience and supports the spirit as well as the … Continue reading
Posted in Care-Giving Concerns, Reflections on Aging, Resource Articles, Thought Pieces
Tagged cancer, chemotherapy, end of life care, healing, hope, illness, personal choice, terminal
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Spirituality and Nature
Going out into nature can be a transforming experience. If you’re willing to give yourself over to being in a natural setting or wilderness environment, free from the distractions of our usually busy lives, extraordinary things can happen. See larger … Continue reading
Posted in D'vrei Torah, Thought Pieces
Tagged argentina, brazil, iguazu falls, jungle, nature, spirituality, wilderness
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Human Be-ings (not human do-ings)
Most of us are caretakers or providers or some other life-path that does not make it feasible to sit in a meditative state and “be” all day long. So realistically, how can we meet our daily responsibilities to ourselves and … Continue reading
Stories Bind Us to Our Past
From the Southern Order of Storytellers Newsletter, August/September 1992 I once read about a nine-year-old who went to a family reunion and met relatives even her mother hardly knew. Back home, she wanted to keep in touch with these persons … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Baby Boomers, Thought Pieces
Tagged family, genealogy, history, newsletters, storytelling
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Eight Characteristics That Make A Physician A Healer
The healing potential of the relationship between doctor and patient has long been recognized in the medical field. Much has been written on how the healing that can occur goes way beyond the technical or pharmaceutical interventions that physicians employ … Continue reading
Posted in Health and Wellness Programs, Thought Pieces
Tagged characteristics, David Schenck, doctor, healer, Larry R. Churchill, physician, survey
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Compassion: What is it? Why is it Powerful? What is its Threatened Role in Medicine?
Having compassion is a way of being, thinking, and acting that can be easily misunderstood and misidentified. To show compassion is a way to make the lives of people who receive it better, while also increasing happiness, wellness, joy, and … Continue reading
Posted in Health and Wellness Programs, Resource Links, Thought Pieces
Tagged buddhist, Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, compassion, medicine, physician, remen, sensitivity, shlim
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Empathy: How Does It Help Us Relate To Others and What Is Its Role in Medicine?
Empathy is a frequently misunderstood term that refers to one’s ability to understand and identify with another person’s emotional experiences and feelings. The true empathic individual is aware and accepting of the other person’s thoughts, reactions, and feelings in a … Continue reading
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Tagged doctor, empathy, feelings, patient, reactions, relationships, spirituality, thoughts
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