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      December 9, 2017
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Author Stan Goldberg

Stan Goldberg

I am an author of eight books in four languages. LESSONS FOR THE LIVING: STORIES OF FORGIVENESS, GRATITUDE AND COURAGE AT THE END OF LIFE is my memoir of being a bedside hospice volunteer for six years while battling prostate cancer. My next book, LEANING INTO SHARP POINTS: PRACTICAL GUIDANCE AND NURTURING SUPPORT FOR CAREGIVERS will be published in March, 2012 by New World Library and focus on caregiving for loved ones who have a progressive or terminal illness.

Squishy Memories: Part I-The Big Con

Stan Goldberg
March 23, 2015
Life, Thoughts of the Day
I was asked if I thought individuals can block memories of traumatic events, and if not, could certain triggers cause these events to resurface. Although the question was about PTSD, I realized it had...
destructive thoughts

Our Insane and Destructive Thoughts: Part III-What to Do About Them

Stan Goldberg
March 13, 2015
Life, Thoughts of the Day
5 Comments
Knowing what destructive thoughts are is one thing. Knowing how to stop them is another. In Part I of this three-part series, I maintained one form of our insane thoughts is the creation of  “what if”...

Our Insane and Destructive Thoughts: Part II-Their Purpose

Stan Goldberg
March 12, 2015
Life
Sometimes answers to questions come from the strangest places. For example; who would think to look at films to identify the purpose of our insane and destructive thoughts? In Part I of this three-part...
Our insane thoughts

Our Internal Insane Thoughts: Part I-What Are They?

Stan Goldberg
March 9, 2015
Life, Thoughts of the Day
4 Comments
How many days has it been since you replayed a scene in your mind where you said hurtful, revealing or politically incorrect words you wish could have been taken back? Possibly you were diligent in your speech...
Putting meat on compassion

Compassion and Cancer: Part III-Putting “Meat” on Compassionate Behaviors

Stan Goldberg
February 27, 2015
Cancer, Thoughts of the Day
4 Comments
We want to be helpful to whose living with cancer, but often we don’t know how to transform compassionate intent into helpful behaviors. I discussed why compassion isn’t sufficient to be helpful in Part I....
Very old man

Compassion and Cancer: Part II-How Cancer Changes Identity (Thought of the Day)

Stan Goldberg
February 25, 2015
Cancer, Thoughts of the Day
5 Comments
We like to think life is on a seamless continuum, moving along, maybe in spurts and stops, but having consistency throughout the years, as does our identity. We're the same person today we were last week and...
Person with cancer

Compassion and Cancer: Part I-Why Compassion Isn’t Enough

Stan Goldberg
February 23, 2015
Cancer, Thoughts of the Day
1 Comment
We have an inherent desire to be compassionate. In the misery of another person, we see ourselves, if not in the present, than in the past or future. But compassion is not sufficient for helping people living...
improvisation and dementia

Alzheimer’s/Dementia Part III: How to Speak Dementia-Thought of the Day

Stan Goldberg
February 6, 2015
Alzheimer’s/dementia, Thoughts of the Day
Who would think there is anything humorous about Dementia? Most people who experience it or their caregivers wouldn't. But humor and improvisation may be a key element to reducing anxiety and creating joy for...
older couple cooking

Alzheimer’s and Dementia (Part II): 5 Strategies for Recreating the Rules for Living. Thought of the Day

Stan Goldberg
February 4, 2015
Alzheimer’s/dementia, Thoughts of the Day
3 Comments
In part one of this weekly series, I discussed some myths and facts about Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. I stressed the most alarming memory problems have less to do with names and events, and more...
Woman with Alzheimer's

Alzheimer’s and Dementia (Part I): What It Is and What It Isn’t. Thought of the Day

Stan Goldberg
February 2, 2015
Alzheimer’s/dementia, Thoughts of the Day
8 Comments
Alzheimer's: it's becoming a less distant illness and something directly touching us. If a friend or relative doesn't have it or had it, it's just a matter of time before someone you know will. Unfortunately,...

Providing a Voice to the Voiceless

Stan Goldberg
January 31, 2015
Interviews
2 Comments
This is an interview conducted by Melody Ruth Bromma of MarinScope, the online website for three Marin County Newspapers. The purpose of the interview was to see how early experiences shape present values and...
Angry conversation

Thought of the Day. Family Conflict (Part III) Preventing Family Conflict

Stan Goldberg
January 30, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Life, Thoughts of the Day
1 Comment
In Part I of Family Conflict, I presented the idea conflicts often involve looking at the present through our history. In Part II I wrote that “universal” or “enduring” truths are myths-especially when...
family conflicts

Thought of the Day. Family Conflict (Part II) Why Truth is Relative 

Stan Goldberg
January 28, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Life, Thoughts of the Day
1 Comment
In Part I of Family Conflict I presented the idea conflicts often involve looking at the present through our history. There is an amazing similarity in the type of conflicts created by a health crisis and...
Passover at the wailing wall

Thought of the Day. Family Conflict (Part I): How the Past Affects The Present

Stan Goldberg
January 26, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Life, Thoughts of the Day
Passover was a dreaded holiday for me as a teenager growing up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was a time when my uncle, who thought of himself as a "lay Rabbi," rose at the head of the table and straightened...
A goodbye kiss

Thought of the Day: Part 3 Grief Hierarchy- Reducing Grief

Stan Goldberg
January 22, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Thoughts of the Day
2 Comments
In Part 1 of Grief Hierarchy, I presented the idea grief shouldn't be evaluated in terms of whose is greater. In Part 2, I introduced the notion (controversial based on the feedback I received) we don't grieve...
Grieving woman

Thought of the Day: Part 2 Grief Hierarchy- The Nature of Grief

Stan Goldberg
January 21, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Thoughts of the Day
2 Comments
THOUGHT OF THE DAY. In the first installment of this series, I presented the idea grief shouldn't be placed on a hierarchy of importance. I maintained the grief of someone who lost a dog can be as substantial...
Grief

Thought of the Day: Part 1 Grief Hierarchy- It Shouldn’t Exist

Stan Goldberg
January 20, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Thoughts of the Day
Everyone has lost a partner, friend, parent, job, ability, pet, or object that created joy. It is something viewed as irreplaceable by the person experiencing the loss, but often thought trivial by...
Repeating what doesn't work at stopping violence

A Lesson from Terrorism: Violence and The Grayness of Life

Stan Goldberg
January 16, 2015
Grieving and Recovery, Life, Thoughts of the Day
2 Comments
THOUGHT OF THE DAY. Each day’s new violence makes people want to retreat into a 1950’s bomb shelter, or buy a home in a gated and guarded community, or hide in a shack in a remote part of the woods. Of...

Breast Cancer and the Fear of Recurrence

Stan Goldberg
January 16, 2015
Cancer
9 Comments
By Khevin Barnes My surgeon recommended that I have an ultrasound exam every four months for the first two years after my mastectomy. As the date approached for my first quarterly check up I found myself...
old man thought to be useless

Elder Abuse: What They Don’t Show on TV

Stan Goldberg
January 15, 2015
Aging, Thoughts of the Day
Thought of the Day. A number of years ago I witnessed elder abuse as I walked behind a twenty-something-year-old couple in downtown San Francisco. My hearing then--as opposed to now--was acute enough to hear...
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