This Week's Program
Facing Cancer
“I found my husband and my son sitting in the big comfy chair in the living room with a book, and my husband was attempting to read to him and couldn’t do it. He was obviously very distressed. And at that point something switched in my mind and I realized I have a husband and a son. My son needs care; I can’t fall into depression. I’m still a mom, I’m still a wife. And so I had to go on…” –Laura Jaynes
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Just Sayin'
Emily Ralph
Do you ever feel like you live in a perpetual Saturday night? Saturday night is a hopeless time. It’s when dreams come crashing to the ground. It’s like someone has pressed the pause button on your life or else it’s spinning wildly out of control. On Saturday night, you feel like everything you’ve ever worked for was for nothing. There’s no future. Saturday night is anxiety, depression. It’s loneliness. It’s hunger, abuse.
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Beyond the News: Facing Death — Website and DVD with resources on planning a funeral, stages of grieving, advanced directives, organ donation, and check lists to use.Related Resources
We invite you to post your experiences of facing death on the Shaping Families Facebook page.
WEBSITES
Journal of Clinical Oncology — “Parents with Cancer: Who’s Looking after the Children?” By Paula K. Rauch, Anna C. Muriel, Ned H. Cassem. A case study and guiding principles for counseling.
Burton's Blog
Facing Our Greatest Fear
“You have cancer.”
In our world, these have to be some of the scariest words we ever hear. Cancer has come to symbolize our greatest fears. A by-product, it often seems, of our modern conveniences, chemicals and lifestyle. Live long enough, and the chances are pretty good that you’ll hear some medical person somewhere say these words to you.
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New Life after Drugs. When one person in the family has a drug addiction, it affects the entire family. But imagine an entire family —parents and children — all battling with drug and alcohol addictions. Next week Shaping Families talks with one such family that found themselves caught in a cycle of drug and alcohol abuse and how together, as a family, they found their way out.
Favorite Family Recipes
Crostini Appetizers
If you're starting to think about graduation parties, you'll love these ideas for a tasty appetizer. From the book, Whatever Happened to Dinner?
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