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  • Available for pre-orderReject the stigmas of trauma and chronic illness by fostering queer forms of intimacy—and embracing the many ways humans can care for one anotherThe writer behind the popular @softcore_trauma Instagram offers a deeply personal memoir for folks seeking healing and better
    Hardcover | August 20, 2025 | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Healing, Illness, Personal Inspiration, Psychology, Trauma
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  • In sixteen heartfelt and thoughtful essays, Unitarian Universalist chaplains provide a close-up view of their day-to-day ministry in hospitals, hospices, prisons, the military, the police force, and rehabilitation centers.
    Paperback | By Karen Hutt | May 27, 2025 | From Skinner House Books
    Tagged as: Caring, Compassion, Illness, Listening, Ministry, Pastoral Care, Suffering
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  • For those who care for chronically ill children, a new understanding of hope that equips adults to better nurture pediatric hope among sick kids—articulated by the children themselves
    Hardcover | By Duane R. Bidwell | May 27, 2025 | For Children | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Children, Hope, Illness, Parents
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  • A gentle, expert guide to the secrets of recovery, showing why we need it and how to do it better
    Hardcover | By Gavin Francis | May 27, 2025 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Healing, Illness, Personal Inspiration
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  • For caregivers of deeply forgetful people: a book that combines new ethics guidelines with an innovative program on how to communicate and connect with people with Alzheimer's. With a workshop appendix focused on communication and connection, "A Caregiver Resilience Program," by Rev. Dr. Jade C. Angelica.
    Paperback | By Stephen G. Post | May 27, 2025 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Family, Illness
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  • The inspiring story of a mother who took unimaginable tragedy and used her grief as a force to do good by transforming the lives of others
    Paperback | By Maria J. Kefalas | May 27, 2025 | For Children | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Children, Death, Grief, Illness, Joy, Parenting, Parents, Personal Inspiration, Sorrow, Strength
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  • “We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love,” Barbara Becker reminds us in her debut memoir
    Hardcover | By Barbara Becker | May 27, 2025 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Compassion, Death, Healing, Illness, Journey, Personal Inspiration
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  • In 2011, Nancy Shaffer's life suddenly changed when she was diagnosed with what would be a fatal brain tumor.
    Paperback | By Mary McKinnon Ganz, Nancy Shaffer | May 27, 2025 | From Skinner House Books
    Tagged as: Death, Grief, Illness, Pastoral Care
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  • After more than fifty years of good health, anthropologist Paul Stoller suddenly found himself diagnosed with lymphoma. The only thing more transformative than his fear and dread of cancer was the place it ultimately took him: twenty-five years back in time to his days as an apprentice to a West...
    Paperback | May 27, 2025 | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Illness
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  • I am learning to give up needing to know the answers, and instead live with the questions.
    Reflection | By Diane Dassow | October 20, 2021 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Body, Direct Experience, Illness, Patience, Peace, Spiritual Practice, Worry, Worship
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  • Chaplaincy is a deep expression of Unitarian Universalist theology.
    By Elaine McArdle | September 1, 2020 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Compassion, Healing, Illness, Ministry, Suffering
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  • I was so very, very tired. I only had room for Now.
    By Jennifer Joy Pawlitschek | September 1, 2020 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Healing, Illness
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  • A new disease, without any cure, is pushing us apart. And, yet, we cannot escape one another. We need one another. Whether I acknowledge it or not, the guarantee of safety does not exist.
    Reflection | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | April 15, 2020 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #COVID19, 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Body, Coming Out, Direct Experience, Fear, Humanism, Illness, Interdependence, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Relationships, Secular, Shame, Vulnerability
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  • Know that we are connected / in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
    Poetry | By Lynn Ungar | March 16, 2020 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Caring, Connections, Illness, Sacred
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  • Leaders recommend suspending worship gatherings and other large events; staff are working from home; UUA events in the next month have been moved online or canceled.
    By Elaine McArdle | March 11, 2020 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Illness, Work
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  • As COVID-19 spreads, Unitarian Universalist congregations begin to adapt. In Washington State, this means shifting to online rather than in-person worship and meetings.
    By Elaine McArdle | March 9, 2020 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Health, Illness
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  • This is a story of in-the-middle for those wondering how their story ends.
    Reflection | By Robin Tanner | August 29, 2018 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Choice, Direct Experience, Fear, Hope, Humanism, Illness, Limitations, Parents, Psychology, Searching, Secular, Solidarity, Worry
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  • Megan has a terminal illness. Ralph has to make a huge decision. I plunge into their spiritual and religious landscapes. I do not see spirituality as disappearing, but as being present everywhere.
    By Ali Jablonsky | June 1, 2018 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Death, Family, Grief, Healing, Illness, Spirituality
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  • I wanted so much to believe that God was watching over this boy, that God was tender and protective and fiercely on the side of life and that this boy would not slip away.
    Reflection | By Elea Kemler | February 21, 2018 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Children, Depression, Direct Experience, Family, Healing, Humanism, Illness, Mental Health, Mothers, Presence, Secular, Unitarian Universalism
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  • There we were, two strangers idling at the red light―but I felt seen, and blessed, by a stranger.
    Reflection | By Erika Hewitt | March 15, 2017 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Body, Courage, Direct Experience, Healing, Hope, Humanism, Illness, Interdependence, Kindness, Mystery, Secular
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