The Heart of Caregiving: A Guide to Joyful Caring

Sonia S. Morrison

Jan 2012 · AuthorHouse

About this eBook

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

About the author

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