“An open-hearted and honest look at the reality of caring for someone with this life-changing diagnosis. Eveline generously shares her experiences, insights, and practical tools to cultivate compassion, acceptance, and love, even during the most painful experiences.”—Dr. Nicole LePera, New York Times–bestselling author of How to Do the Work\nA vital source of solace and compassion for those whose loved one has dementia, rooted in the author’s unflinching experience of caring for her mother\nDementia enters life through the back door, slipping in unnoticed. Once it’s there, it can make you feel powerless, angry, and unsure how to move forward. When her mother developed dementia, Eveline Helmink wasn’t prepared. As she learned firsthand, when your loved one is suffering, it takes a toll on you, too.\nAs you navigate finding professional caregivers and adapting to your loved one’s behavioral challenges, this book will help you confront all the complexities of the experience. Identify healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms. Work through feelings of denial, grief, guilt, shame, and fear. Summon the courage to make decisions in your loved one’s best interest. Live in the present, find laughter, and show love in the face of dementia. 
When a Loved One Has Dementia weaves together Eveline’s unflinching personal account and her empathetic guidance, allowing you to walk through the endless tunnel and illuminating the path to acceptance, forgiveness, and love.

When a Loved One Has Dementia: A Comforting Companion for Family and Friends

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Helmink, Eveline

Mental Health

The Experiment

Get through the tough times with dozens of prompts and activities in this companion journal to the popular Handbook for Bad Days. A Journal for Bad Days provides the tools to help you through tough times. Inside, you will find questions to ponder while facing the worst days with courage, compassion, and your head held high. This journal provides sixty prompts inspired by the topics referenced in the popular Handbook for Bad Days, including the benefits of a good cry, the importance of a social media detox, the power of saying "yes, but...", and the gift of an apology. In these prompts, you can document your personal stories, thoughts, and intimate contemplations about grief, living in the present, ego, and more. Bad days are part of being human, but they no longer have to control you. Instead, you can take charge of your low days and transform them, and yourself.

A Journal for Bad Days: Self-Care Strategies to Get Present When Things Aren't Perfect

Religion & Spirituality

S&S/Simon Element

Keep your head held high even on the bad days with 70 mindful self-care strategies to find happiness. In a time when social media encourages us to constantly highlight how great we're doing and how #Blessed life is, there seems to be little room for the inevitable truth: in every life, there are days that are NOT great. Yet decades in the self-help world have taught Eveline Helmink--editor-in-chief of Happinez magazine and a self-titled cheerleader for failure and discomfort--that true emotional growth comes from realizing that it's often on our worst days when we learn the most about what empowers, strengthens, and revitalizes us--and yes, brings us happiness. In The Handbook for Bad Days, Helmink teaches you how to take advantage of bad days as moments for self-discovery and emotional understanding. Her compassionate, no-bullshit approach encourages you to detox from the social media world and rethink your coping strategies, exploring topics such as, -The benefits of a good cry -Why, sometimes, it's okay to give up -Why a fuzzy pink cardigan and some Celine Dion is just as good as a Sanskrit mantra The Handbook for Bad Days is the ultimate guide for anyone who strives to be present, not perfect. Perfect for fans of Glennon Doyle, Elizabeth Lesser, and Krista Tippet, The Handbook for Bad Days is a call to face our worst days with courage and intentionality.

The Handbook for Bad Days: Shortcuts to Get Present When Things Aren't Perfect

Self-Help

Relationships

Keep your head held high even on the bad days with 70 mindful and wise strategies to finding happiness-The Handbook for Bad Days is the ultimate guide to happiness for anyone who strives to be present, not perfect, who knows that life isn't always "good vibes only," sure to resonate with fans of Glennon Doyle and Elizabeth Lesser. In a time when social media encourages us to constantly highlight how great we're doing, how #Blessed life is, and how perfect we are, there seems to be little room for the inevitable truth: in every life, there are days that are NOT great. But decades in the self-help world have taught Helmink-editor-in-chief of Happinez magazine and a self-titled cheerleader for failure and discomfort-that true happiness isn't about cutting out the bad days, it's about accepting life as it is. And, in fact, it's often on those days when everything falls apart that we learn the most about what brings us comfort, resilience, courage, strength and, yes, happiness. Getting through some bad days require nothing more than a hot shower or a long walk. But others require us to be curious and courageous. In The Handbook for Bad Days, Helmink offers readers more than 70 proven strategies to find that lightness when things feel sideways. Her compassionate, no-bullshit approach teaches readers what it truly means to care for themselves, and she explores topics including: -The benefits of a good cry -Why, sometimes, it's okay to give up -Why a fuzzy pink cardigan and some Celine Dion is just as good as a Sanskrit mantra Perfect for fans of Glennon Doyle, Elizabeth Lesser, and Krista Tippet, The Handbook for Bad Days is a call to face our worst days with courage and compassion.

Handbook for Bad Days (Export): Shortcuts to Get Present When Things Aren't Perfect

Happiness

Tiller Press

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