Camp Carousel promotes healthy mourning through creativity and fun!

Camp Carousel 2011 will be held Monday, July 25 – Friday, July 29.

Learn how to cope with a death-related loss. Camp Carousel is designed to meet the unique needs of grieving children (ages 6-12), teens, and adults. For more information or for a registration form please see the Grief Counseling section of our web site or call 336-768-3972!

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21st Annual Camp Carousel for children, teens, and adults
July 25 – 29, 2011!

Camp Carousel is a bereavement retreat for children ages 6-12, teens, and adults who are grieving a death-related loss.

Campers will find support through small group grief sessions that provide them with a natural outlet for expression of feelings and healthy coping skills.

Special experiences include: creative play, art therapy, expressive movement, music therapy, animal-assisted therapy, and more!

Camp Carousel is open to the community!

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Source: SeriousIllness.org

When your family member is in pain, you are suffering too. The “mirror neurons” in our brains are programmed to recognize pain in others. That’s good news, in that it arouses compassion and spurs us to action. But it can be bad news, too. When you’re highly attuned to a loved one’s pain, you’re at higher risk of depression and self-neglect.

Learn about pain management. Your ability to reduce your relative’s experience of pain will help both of you.

- Report symptoms and ask questions. Download the Pain Tracking Kit offered by Partners Against Pain. And ask the doctor for a consult with a palliative care specialist. They have special training in pain control.

- Learn about medications. Master the steps you can take to lessen pain when it occurs.

Our article on managing pain provides guidelines for other remedies you can use at home.

Accept what is beyond your power and focus on what you can control.

• Emphasize comfort. Remind yourself, “Today, I may not be able to stop the pain, but I can still [prepare food, massage feet, etc.].”
• Provide distractions. If your family member is engaged in an activity, he or she is less likely to be aware of the pain.

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For more information about Hospice & Palliative CareCenter, contact Ann Gauthreaux, public relations director, at 336-768-3972, or see Hospice’s website at http://www.hospicecarecenter.org!

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Camp Carousel promotes healthy mourning through creativity and fun. Learn how to cope with a death-related loss

Monday, July 26 – Friday, July 30

Camp Carousel is designed to meet the unique needs of grieving children and teens (ages 6-17). In this caring environment, a specially trained staff of counselors and volunteers help children and teens learn how to express their grief and develop new coping skills for facing their life changes. Campers have an opportunity to meet others their own age who know what it’s like to lose a loved one.

Camp Carousel provides services for grieving adults. This therapeutic experience offers adult sessions geared toward learning how to cope with personal loss and life change. They, too, have the opportunity to interact with others grieving similar losses.

Camp Carousel promotes learning through creativity and fun. Groups involve the use of the creative arts — art therapy, music therapy, creative play, and animal assisted therapy — to provide campers a natural outlet for the expression and understanding of feelings..

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