When Dreams Don't Work: Professional Caregivers and Burnout presents a fresh perspective on burnout. This book examines the origins and qualities of the dreams (visions) of professional caregivers and the ways those very qualities are risk factors for burnout. ""When Dreams Don't Work: Professional Caregivers and Burnout"" also looks at the institutions in which professional caregivers (medical, educational, pastoral, law enforcement, and firefighting) invest their professional dreams, and...

"It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight."– OvidFinding Hope is a rare gem, a book that makes a difference. I personally have gifted Finding Hope to more than 300 individuals. The book Finding Hope is big enough to change a life and small enough to travel with you everywhere. Finding Hope is useful for both the hopeful and the hope challenged. It plants the seeds of hopefulness even in those ...

Zen and the Art of Illness is a collection of gentle and insightful reflections on single days, sometimes single moments, in a year-long journey that began following her husband's cancer diagnosis. In it, Ronna invites us to "transverse the landscape of life-threatening illness, neither in fear nor in hope, and yet not without hope." Ronna combines the personal and intimate voice of the spouse moving through the days of diagnosis, treatment and recovery, with snapshots, both visual and tex...

ENCOURAGEMENT TO WRITEIn this exquisite book, Ronna examines the essential questions, "What does it mean to be a writer? and "What is it to live the life of a writer?"As I read this book, over and over again, I was moved, by one chapter or another, to wish that I had printed copies that I could offer to the participants in my workshops who are struggling with the very practical and philosophical issues she raises. There are sentences whose wisdom and beauty had me scramblin...

Zen and the Art of Illness is a collection of gentle and insightful reflections on single days, sometimes single moments, in a year-long journey that began following her husband's cancer diagnosis. In it, Ronna invites us to 'transverse the landscape of life-threatening illness' 'neither in fear nor in hope, and yet not without hope.' Ronna combines the personal and intimate voice of the spouse moving through the days of diagnosis, treatment and recovery, with snapshots, both visual and te...

"It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight."OVIDFinding Hope is a rare gem, a book that makes a difference. I personally have gifted Finding Hope to more than 300 individuals. The book Finding Hope is big enough to change a life and small enough to travel with you everywhere. Finding Hope is useful for both the hopeful and the hope challenged. It plants the seeds of hopefulness even in those wh...

Celebrating 60 is a set of reflections on living that can make any life more thoughtful, responsive, and joyful for anyone using it as a compass. The notion that so many aspects of life over so many years are worthy of celebration is a framework that would serve us all well across our lives.Ronna's sense and understanding of humanity is one of the truest expressions that I have experienced in a literary form. She weaves threads of gentle reflection into a tapestry of important topi...

Celebrating 60 is a set of reflections on living that can make any life more thoughtful, responsive, and joyful for anyone using it as a compass. The notion, that so many aspects of life over so many years are worthy of celebration, is a framework that would serve us all well across our lives.Ronna's sense and understanding of humanity is one of the truest expressions that I have experienced in a literary form. She weaves threads of gentle reflection into a tapestry of important to...