With Grace. Still Teaching Me: A collection of stories, reflections and lessons learned by my mother’s side during her final years with Alzheimer’s.
The With Grace Project is a book in progress that I am currently writing about what I learned by my mother’s side during her final years when she had Alzheimer’s. It is designed to be an inspirational memoir containing short, stand-alone reflections that are arranged by various themes such as acceptance, connection, and identity. While addressed to readers with loved ones who have some form of dementia, the lessons are universal.
The purpose of the book is to help readers derive meaning from the experience, even while there is sadness and grief alongside it. To make peace with it and even, to find joy. My intent is to address the reality of the disease while also offering consolation on an emotional and spiritual level. As one friend expressed it: “You’re giving the reader a different way to be there.”
Even through the range of emotions and behaviors that dementia produces including states of agitation, irritability, aggression, sadness and withdrawal, they are teaching us many things.
Today, if you are sitting next to someone dear to you – your friend, mother, your husband or brother – I offer you this question to take with you: What is my loved one teaching me today?
Bio
Virginia (Ginny) Kravitz is a writer, coach, and creator of inthecurrent.com. Her trademark In the Current® is the foundation and overarching theme of the work she explores with others. At the heart of this is what Ginny calls a powerfully graceful way to move.
Throughout 20 years in the coaching profession and prior to that during her corporate career, Ginny discovered that what brings her joy is to share what she learns with others. Now retired from executive coaching, Ginny is devoted to creative endeavors connected to her writing. The driving force behind her work is to inspire and encourage.
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Still Teaching, Even Now
The With Grace Project
Blog-With Grace
