{"id":405,"date":"2014-08-20T09:55:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/?p=405"},"modified":"2014-08-20T09:56:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:56:20","slug":"caring-for-the-caregiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/2014\/08\/20\/caring-for-the-caregiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring for the Caregiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reed campus is loaded with caregivers. Teachers, staff, roommates, all looking after one another day after day. I think it is fair to say that care giving is one of the most rewarding experiences a human can have, and is one of the things that makes campus life so satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>It seems a little paradoxical, then, that care giving can also be something we dread. Will I be able to meet all of today&#8217;s challenges? How long can I continue to meet the needs of my students, co-workers, friends?<\/p>\n<p>Face it, caregivers need care too. Care giving is not only rewarding, it is also stressful and demanding. We need to be able to take a break from our responsibilities, to take time to look after <em>our<\/em>selves. We may even need to let <em>someone else<\/em> take care of us.<\/p>\n<p>A recent Times article (<a title=\"When the Caregivers Need Healing, July 28 | NY Times, Health\" href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1o7Bkhk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;When the Caregivers Need Healing,&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> July 28) explores these issues and shows how a mindfulness practice can offer caregivers yet another tool for sustaining themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reed campus is loaded with caregivers. Teachers, staff, roommates, all looking after one another day after day. I think it is fair to say that care giving is one of the most rewarding experiences a human can have, and is one of the things that makes campus life so satisfying. It seems a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}