Resources

Please Note: Our website is currently being revised and updated.

Web Links:

• National Alliance for Caregiving
• National Family Caregivers Association
• Howard County Department on Aging and Independence, Howard County, MD
• The Village In Howard, Howard County, MD
• National Alzheimer’s Buddies
• National Hospice & Palliative Care Association

   Whole-hearted Living

• Levine Talks, Stephen and Ondrea Levine
• Center for Courage and Renewal, Parker Palmer
• Bearing Witness, Bernie Glassman,
• Nature and the Human Soul, Bill Plotkin
• Ram Dass – Love Serve Remember
• Upaya Zen Center
• The Five Invitations, Frank Ostaseski
• I Will Not Die an Unlived Life, Dawna Markova
• Whole Heart Connection Integration, Thea Elijah

  Wellness

• Catlin Acupuncture & Healing Arts, contact [email protected] 443-799-0308.
• Move.Eat.Be. Joanne Frederick
• Red Mountain Counseling, Kim Callen
• Four Gates Wellness

DVDs

• Fierce Grace: Ram Dass
• Griefwalker, Stephen Jenkinson
• Iris, Richard Eyre
• Solace: Wisdom of the Dying, Camille Adair
• The Best Exoctic Marigold Hotel
• The Fountain, Darren Aronosky
• The Way, Emilio Estevez

Music CDs

• Chants, The Benedictine Monks
• Chakra Healing Chants, Sophia Songhealer
• Edge of Wonder, Praises for the World and more, Jennifer Berazen
• Love is Space, Devi Premal
• Music to Quiet the Mind, Eckhart Tolle

Publications Books & CDs

• All Sickness is Homesickness, Dianne Connelly
• Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
• Becoming a Healing Presence: A Guide for Those Who Offer Care, Tom Balles
• Common Sense for the Healing Arts, Essays by Robert M. Duggan
• Die Wise, A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul, Stephen Jenkinson
• Fate and Destiny, Two Agreements of the Soul, Michael Meade
• How to Be Sick, Toni Bernard,  Guide for the Chronically Ill & Their Caregivers — for those living with chronic illness and caregivers. Wise, compassionate and very practical.
• Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change, Pema Chodron
• Nature and the Human Soul, Bill Plotkin
• Seven Thousand Ways to Listen, Mark Nepo
• The Grace in Aging, Awaken As You grow Older, Kathleen Dowling Singh
• The Spiral of the Seasons, Welcoming Gifts of Later Life, John Sullivan
• The Healing I took Birth For, Ondrea Livine
• A Year to Live, Stephen Levine
• From Aging to Saging, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
• Passages in Caregiving, Gail Sheehy
• When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodren
• Wherever You Go There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
• To Love and Be Loved, Stephen and Ondrea Levine
• Already Organized, Mel Rosche – contact: [email protected]
• Meeting the Shadow, The Hidden Power of the Dark Side, ed. Connie Zweig & Jeremiah Abrams

     Illness, Death & Dying

• Catlin Acupuncture & Healing Arts, contact [email protected] 443-799-0308.
• Transformative Guidance at the End of Life, (scroll down) [email protected] 443-799-0308.
• The Five Invitations, Frank Ostaseski
• Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
• Die Wise, Stephen Jenkinson
• A Year to Live, Stephen Levin
• Being with Dying, Joan Halifax
• Leaves Gently Falling, Susan Bauer-Wu
• How to Be Sick,  A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill & Their Caregivers, Toni Bernard. http://www.tonibernhard.com/  A “must read” for those living with chronic illness and caregivers. Wise, compassionate and very practical.
• Passages in Caregiving, Gail Sheehy
• Never the Same: Coming to Terms with the Death of a Parent, Donna Schuurman
• Who Dies, Stephen & Ondrea Levine
• In the Country of Illness, Robert Lipsyte

Come back often. We add to this page regularly.— BC

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• Send your check to Bigger Conversations, 10065 Windstream Drive, Suite 2,  Columbia, MD 21044, or you may call 443-799-0308 for credit cards.