Charles Garfield
Shanti Project founder and author
Shanti Project founder and author
Love Heals
AUDIO
Life's Last Gift with interviewer Josh Kornbluth
Finding Meaning at the End of Life
Stories from the Threshold
Psychologist and Shanti Project founder, Charles Garfield offers compassionate and expert guidance for friends and families who want to ease their loved ones’ final days. By focusing on the reciprocal and healing relationship between the living and the dying, Life’s Last Gift provides practical tools about connecting, finding peace, and being of service to those at the end of life.
BOOKS
“In this finely written and immensely useful book, Charles Garfield offers all of us the concrete guidance we’ll need to skillfully and compassionately support those we love at the end of their lives. Dr. Garfield knows the terrain intimately and his book will help family members and friends of the dying negotiate this difficult and confusing time with grace and kindness.”
—David Sheff, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller
Beautiful Boy and Clean
Special praise for Life's Last Gift
“Charles Garfield's book, Life’s Last Gift, is a treasure. It is beautiful, heart-felt, and overflowing with hard-won compassionate wisdom. My prayer is that it be offered in every hospice, hospital, and chaplaincy program—in every setting and to every person who will lovingly accompany someone at the end of life. My prayer is that my children will read it when it comes my time. This book is a gift.”
—Kathleen Dowling Singh, author of The Grace in Dying:
How We Are Transformed Spiritually as We Die
Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb: Love and Caregiving in a Time of AIDS includes accounts from men and women who demystify the caregiving process as they talk candidly about the risks and rewards of supporting someone with a chronic or life threatening illness.
Special praise for Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb
“An extremely valuable source of information for all of us. If you are alive, you are a caregiver. Read on; laugh, cry, grow, and learn how to deal with life’s afflictions. Your heart will be touched and your mind opened. When you read the stories contained in this book, you will become passionate about life, not numb.”
—Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles
“Danny, Eric, Micaela, Bharat—I wanted to meet each of these exemplary caregivers and say, ‘thank you’ for demonstrating that we have an astonishing capacity for love. Here are twenty people who, in the face of life’s challenges, show us what to do, what to say, and how to be a compassionate presence when there is little that can be said or done. Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb is one of the most practical, well-written and moving books I’ve ever read.”
—Paula Van Ness, president, the National AIDS Fund, Washington, D.C.
© Charles Garfield, PhD 2020
