The Heart of Caregiving: A Guide to Joyful Caring

By Sonia S. Morrison

I summarize my twenty year journey through health care and education, in search of balance and focus, while maintaining my unconditional love and passion to make things right for loved ones.

Journey through the world of caring, healthcare and education
Balance unconditional self love and focus on caregiving.

Learn How to Harness Your Unlimited Passion and Focus
of Self Balance while Providing Healthy Caring

Balance reality and self care, while caring for others.
Discover unique insight to our connections with self and others.
Focus your ability to problem solve creatively.
Learn optimum caregiving tips.

Caregiver Family Members
Learn How to Maintain Self Balance and Focus, with optimum caregiving.

"I have had the honor of working with Sonia during my tenure as the Health Promotion & Childbirth Education Coordinator and now the Level II Dept. Secretary at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital. She is the utmost professional, very compassionate and respectful of all patients and their families as well as her coworkers. My husband and I had the blessing of her assistance during my mother-in-law's illness and passing - we could not have survived without Sonia's help. Sonia has always responded enthusiastically to my calls for volunteers to work in the community. Evaluations from those who participated always loved her knowledge and enthusiasm. She is a blessing and joy to work with."
~Marta Martinez Fife, CLC, LCCE Academic Executive Assistant at Chartwell School.

Harness Your Passion and Healthy Caring
This uplifting and inspirational story takes you on a journey with one women of unconditional love, as she travels through the world of healthcare and education, in search of balance and focus. Sonia shares with a focused passion, the story of wisdom collected over twenty years as a caregiver, providing balance for all. Her passion for making things right shines through and has found it's way to balance and focus for caregivers. Her unconventional pairing of leade

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468507416

Sonia S. Morrison

Born in Los Angeles, CA second of five daughters and two sons, Sonia studied Counseling, Nursing and earned her Bachelor's degree in Nursing. Sonia has specialized in Oncology End of Life Care, over a span of more than twenty years, educating nursing assistants and family members as caregivers, in the hospital, home, school and facility settings. She succeeded early in her profession and continued with joy, developing international relationships that developed with her work. When she decided to change her life in 2008 and live her dream of making a difference in the world, she eschewed all the traditional limited thinking and took action to live a different way of life. Sonia has attended many communication, leadership, nursing, and business seminars and put these lessons into action. Sonia believes in lifelong learning and continues to learn and grow. She continues caring, while traveling, nursing, and teaching. She lives with her partner, Tony, and their seven dogs, nestled in a cottage with a beautiful garden, just blocks from the ocean in Santa Cruz, CA. More information is available at http://www.soniamorrison.com

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction to the

DUAL SIX PRINCIPLES

OF CARE

CHAPTER 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

References

About the Author

Acknowledgements

To my dear friend Diana Rigdon, who inspired me to begin the journey into healthcare and education.

To my sisters; Irene, Ramona, Esther, and Michelle, as well, as my brother Joel Kanter, my son Lars Henri, granddaughter, Alejandra and my partner, Anthony Saldavia, who all taught me what love really is.

To all of my students, clients, and co-counselors for accepting and honing my love, especially, Pam Roby, Carrie Lincourt, Janet Merrick, Alicia Kozman and Yolanda Fuentes-Provoste.

To Cesar Milan and Buddy, Charlie, Tucker, Georgia, Ginger, Gabby and Holly, for assisting me to find clarity and balance in my body and intentions.

And, finally, to T. Harv Eker for assisting me to understand focus and financial freedom.

I write this book in memory of Harvey Jackins, who gave me the tools to live my life with no limits.

Preface

What Do Humans Need?

To Be Happy.

To Do No Harm.

To Think New In Each Moment.

I can only speak from my own experience as a nurse and caregiver. These are my insights to live a life, as a caregiver, with balance and focus. These principles reflect my results and the results of my students. When you study this book, I believe you will transform your life.

Try the principles out for yourself, as if your life depended on it. Think about what you want in caring for yourself and others. Feel good now, about this optimal caring, whenever you think about it. Whatever works for you, just keep doing it. Throw away whatever doesn’t work for you.

I know I may be biased, however, when it comes to being a caregiving this may be the most important book you have ever read. I understand this is a bold statement.

The reality is, this book provides the missing link between your desire for happiness and your achievement of happiness. You may have listened to CDs or gone to courses to learn caregiving systems. For most people they have a burst of energy and then glide right back to status quo.

These simple principles are the tools to unlock your happiness thermostat. In these pages you will understand the root cause for happiness and success or failure and begin changing your future for the better.

You will learn how to be happy, do happy, and have happiness. You will learn how to do no harm. Best of all, you will learn how to think fresh in every moment and be an excellent caregiver for yourself and others.

SO what is my experience and where am I coming from? Like many of you, I had a lot of potential with little to show for it. As a child I really, really, really wanted to prove that being happy without hurting others was possible. I wanted to be able to think freshly regarding each new situation. I worked very hard for many years.

Becoming a nurse was a step in the right direction for many reasons. Learning about and understanding the value of systems, humans, and separating thinking and feelings were huge milestones.

In addition, my hospice experience was the key for me to understand the connection to spirit, clarifying the importance of being present within the doing of life. The fears slowly began to peel away, as I learned from my patients and clients how to be happy, even during illness and at death. Children and adults, alike, seemed able to be grateful in the present moment. I learned everything I could about health, happiness and the inner working of the heart and mind.

I discovered that happy people routinely think differently. I became aware of how my own thoughts were holding me back. Finally, I was ready to get off the roller coaster of ups and downs. I committed to be consistently happy, no matter what.

People often ask me how do I get so much energy and why am I always so happy. Teaching hundreds of students, I have learned that having the tools is not enough. Without the commitment and system to stay on track many people, including myself remained stuck.

HOW TO

SUCCEED WITH THE SIX DUAL PRINCIPLES OF CARE

Choose a partner for practice and