Lessons from a Bedside: Wisdom For Living

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WE ARE ALL ON A JOURNEY - from the moment we are born to the final minutes before our death. But as we live our busy lives, we oftentimes ignore the inner hurts and pain we may be carrying. In Lessons from a Bedside, Breda Casserly, a healthcare chaplain at the Galway Hospice Foundation, shares the wisdom she's learned from her patients as she's journeyed with them through serious, often terminal, illness. Here are stories of self-acceptance, grief, forgiveness and memory inspired by the people Breda has met over the course of her work, along with her own story of coming to terms with personal loss. Told with simplicity and compassion, Lessons from a Bedside is a book of love, spirituality and humanity which shows us paths to healing.

Breda Casserly is a healthcare chaplain in the Galway Hospice Foundation, in Renmore, Galway, a position she fulfilled full time for eleven years before moving to a support role in spring 2021. She is a graduate of NUI Galway and All Hallows College, Dublin, with postgraduate degrees in Pastoral Theology and Cross-Professional Supervision. She teaches on spiritual/soul pain for the Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing (Palliative Care) at NUI Galway. Lessons from a Bedside is her first book.