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 When faced with life's greatest challenges, how do we continue to live with acceptance, equanimity, and a peaceful heart? This profound and courageous memoir seeks to answer those questions, especially when facing the enormous challenges of mental loss through any form of dementia, especially Alzheimer's. Given Hob and Olivia Hoblitzelle's rich background in psychology, Buddhist meditation and the wisdom traditions, they were in a unique position to help others by sharing how they negotiated this heart-breaking illness. This memoir is the fruit of their shared experience. Olivia not only writes about the inspirations and spiritual perspectives that sustained them, but gives us an intimate account of how they faced loss, crisis, and eventually death. With its thoughtful self-help sections, the book provides both hope and practical approaches for how to transform the challenges of mental loss or diminishment of any kind. Ultimately, Hob and Olivia's experience with Alzheimer's was about growing in wisdom and deepening in love. |
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 The Majesty Of Your Loving
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Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle is a writer, therapist and teacher. She taught in the field of Behavorial Medicine where she pioneered how to bring meditation, yoga, and cognitive therapy into the medical domain to treat stress-related and chronic illness. She helped to develop one of the first training programs in Mind/Body medicine in the country and trained health professionals through Harvard Medical School. Her teaching and writing are inspired by over thirty years of practice in psychology, Buddhist meditation, and the wisdom traditions. Having taught meditation and cognitive therapy in a wide variety of settings from government agencies to school systems, she now focuses on elder issues, spirituality and conscious aging. An elder with two grown children and four grandsons, she lives in Massachusetts and spends as much time as she can in Vermont where she grows vegetables, welcomes family and friends, and steeps herself in the glories of nature. She continues to teach, counsel, and write. |
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Harrison Hoblitzelle received his Ph.D in Comparative Literature and devoted the rest of his life to teaching. He taught at Barnard, Columbia, and Brandeis University. After a mid-life career shift, he became a family therapist, taught Counseling Psychology at Lesley University, and finally, after being ordained a Dharmacharya (senior teacher) by Thich Nhat Hanh, he taught Buddhist meditation for the rest of his life. His great loves were music, singing, literature, the dharma, his children, and lots of laughter. |
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 Harrison, known as "Hob," and Olivia Hoblitzelle on holiday in Mexico in 1999. |
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Green Mountain Books publishes works that focus on education, contemplative practices, and spiritual issues especially related to elders and conscious aging. |
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