Stephen G Post

Gebundenes Buch

The Hidden Gifts of Helping

Beschreibung

Research has revealed that when we show concern for others-empathizing with a friend who has lost a loved one, mowing the lawn for an elderly neighbor, or volunteering to mentor a school-aged child-we improve our own health and well-being and embrace and give voice to our deeper identity and dignity as human beings. In this moving book, Stephen G. Post helps us discover how we can make "helping" a lifetime activity. The Hidden Gifts of Helping explores the very personal story of Post and his family's difficult move and their experience with the healing power of helping others, as well as his passion about how this simple activity-expressed in an infinite number of small or large ways-can help you survive and thrive despite the expected and unexpected challenges life presents. Post's story is intertwined with supporting scientific research and spiritual understanding. This book can become your companion and guide to the power of giving, forgiving, and compassion in hard times. The Hidden Gifts of Helping will leave you with the unshakable feeling that the world can be a good place, if we act to make it so.

Autor

The Author STEPHEN G. POST is professor of preventive medicine and director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University. He is a leader in the study of altruism, compassion, and love and president of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love. Post is the author (with Jill Neimark) of the widely praised Why Good Things Happen to Good People. For more information go to www.StephenGPost.com

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 132mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9780470887813
• ISBN-10: 0470887818
• Artikelnr.: 32302397

Rezensionen

"Post (When Good Things Happen to Good People), president of theInstitute for Research on Unlimited Love, pens a hopeful text forhopeless times. His own job loss forced him and his family torelocate in 2008, and he writes poignantly of what he's personallylived through. No stranger to the emotional and spiritualdifficulties that accompany any major life change, the authorshares intimately how he put into practice the biblical principleof "giving unto others" as he worked through his own grief, sorrow,and loss during the transition that uprooted his family. Thelessons Post learned make up this practical resource that urgespurposeful giving, even while feeling the stings of disappointmentand hardship. Post's work is more than a feel-good read. It'stoday's handbook for survival." (Publishers Weekly, January10, 2011

"This inspirational, motivational, and feel good bookwill leave you bursting with an overflowing bucket list of thingsyou will want to do."
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