Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows

A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's

Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle

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English

Jeremy P Tarcher
30 September 2010

Popular medicine & health; Coping with illness; Coping with old age

""Ten Thousand Sorrows & Ten Thousand Joys offers a vision of lives well-led, and of love in the thick of crisis and loss. Beyond inspiring.""-Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

""This beautiful book is unlike any other personal account of living with Alzheimer's disease that I have ever read . . . it offers patients and families practical insights into how they can live their lives more fully amidst the heartbreak of a mind-robbing illness.""- Paul Raia, Director of Patient Care and Family Support, Alzheimer's Association, Massachusetts Chapter

""A story of courage, love, and growing wisdom in the face of Alzheimer's.""-Joseph Goldstein, author of One Dharma, Founder / Director of Insight Meditation Society

In this profound and courageous memoir, Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle describes how her husband's Alzheimer's diagnosis at the age of seventy-two challenged them to live the spiritual teachings they had embraced during the course of their life together. Following a midlife career shift, Harrison Hobliztelle, or Hob as he was called, a former professor of comparative literature at Barnard, Columbia, and Brandeis University, became a family therapist and was ordained a Dharmacharya (senior teacher) by Thich Nhat Hanh. Hob comes to life in these pages as an incredibly funny and brilliant man who never stopped enjoying a good philosophical conversation-even as his mind, quite literally, slipped away from him. And yet when they first heard the diagnosis, Olivia and Hob's initial reaction was to cling desperately to the life they had had. But everything had changed, and they knew that the only answer was to greet this last phase of Hob's life consciously and lovingly.

Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows provides a wise and compassionate vision for maintaining hope and grace in the face of life's greatest challenges.

(This memoir was originally self-published as The Majesty of Your Loving.)

By: Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle
Imprint: Jeremy P Tarcher
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 328g
ISBN: 9781585428274
ISBN 10: 1585428272
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 30 September 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Olivia Ames Hoblitzelleis a writer, therapist, and teacher. She has workedto bring meditation, yoga, and cognitive therapy into the medical domain to treat stress-related and chronic illnesses. She alsohelped to develop one of the first training programs in mind/body medicine in the country and trained health professionals through Harvard Medical School. After teaching meditation and cognitive therapy for more than 30 years, her focus now is on elder issues, conscious aging, and spirituality. Hoblitzelle has two adult children and four grandchildren.