RETIREMENT & BEYOND

Dr. Bill Cook is co-author of a book on how to prepare for retirement and how to maximize your experience once you are retired.

Retirement triggers many changes in our life and prompts new questions. What will it mean to be retired? What do I have to do to be ready? How will my life be different? What are the risks and rewards of this stage of my journey? Will these by my golden years? How will my relationships change? If you are already retired, what can you do to make this the most satisfying time of your life? A play or movie has three acts. The way a story finishes leaves an audience satisfied or disappointed. Whether your first two acts have been great, mediocre, or difficult, you can still choose to make your third act a great one.

The baby boom generation is already entering the Third Act of their story. The post-WWII generation is already there, and living longer. Generation X is not far away. Geriatric psychiatrist William S. Cook, Jr., M.D. and motivational speaker Grant D. Fairley explore with you the challenges and opportunities awaiting all each generation in the final third of life. What you need to know about: Finding Satisfaction – Staying Young – Family – Retirement – Purpose – Health – Friendships – Perspective – Aging Well – Meaning – Choices – Opportunities – Generations – Grief – Service – Relationships – Legacy.

How will you use the resources of time, knowledge and experience that you have accumulated? After a lifetime spent seeking, discovering and achieving – what is left? What can you do to make the years ahead the best yet? What will you choose to do with the time you have left? If you are approaching retirement, already retired, or want to understand those who are – this book is for you.

Read this book and make your third act the best one yet!

COMPASSION FATIGUE

Discover Your Oasis: Escape Compassion Fatigue

Do you work in the helping professions, education, emergency services, healthcare, ministry, social services, or government? Do you care for an aging loved one or a special needs child? If your career or life includes caring for the needs of others, you are at risk of developing compassion fatigue and even burnout. The stress of constantly giving and serving can parch your energy and vitality. Are you so busy taking care of others that you forget to take care of yourself?

Discover Your Oasis will guide you with both big ideas and practical steps to refresh yourself professionally and personally. Become a sustainable caregiver who can go the distance. Learn how to reduce your stress and increase your satisfaction.

Psychiatrist Dr. William S. Cook, Jr. and executive coach Grant D. Fairley take you through short, readable chapters on how to escape compassion fatigue, avoid burnout, and find your inner oasis.

Additional contributions are included by sleep specialist Dr. Brenda Hines, interventional endocrinologist Dr. Larry Komer, pain and rehabilitative physician Dr. Blair Lamb, and licensed professional counselor Chris Redden.

Topics:

Compassion – Caregivers – Service – Helping Professions – Self-Care – Team Work – Stress Management – Compassion Fatigue – Burnout – Elder Care – Police – Satisfaction – Firefighters – Emergency Workers – Social Work – Ministry – Judiciary – Government Service – Leadership – Healthy Sleep – Forgiveness – Listening – Healthy Hormones – Friendships – PTSD – Spirituality – Mentoring – Hope – Special Needs Children – Recovery – Mindfulness – Renewal – Emotional Health Careers

Chapter Titles:

Discover Your Oasis – The Passion in Compassion – Hummingbirds and Camels – Discover Your Sleep Oasis – Called to Care – Mindfulness: Your Mental Oasis – “Three Short – Three Long – Three Short” – Surviving Your 20 Percent = All’s Well: Your Emotional Oasis – Drawing the Lines – Old Friends: Your Social Oasis – Refilling Your Reservoir – Living in the Redline – Finding Satisfaction – Healthy Hormones – Don’t Go Swimming Alone – Stepping Back from the Edge – Bouncing Back – Seasoned Travelers – The Power to Care – Caring for Special Children – Lend Me Your Ear – Bless Your Heart – PTSD – Survival Circle – What’s Burning? – The Inside World *Breathe: Your Spiritual Oasis – Recreating Yourself – Into the Darkness – Inspiration – One Life at a Time – Colleagues in Crisis – When Enough Is Enough – Make Your Prison Break – Leading Caregivers – Choosing Your Battles – Coping with the Age of Confusion – Your Oasis of Hope – With A Final Two Words

BRAIN HEALTH

Dr. Cook contributed a chapter to an important new book on concussions, traumatic brain injury, and PTSD.