Leaves Falling Gently: Living Fully with Serious Illness through Mindfulness, Compassion, and Connectedness
Accessible meditations, reflections, and advice for living life fully with a serious illness or helping loved ones navigate illnesses.

Dealing with chronic illness can be an isolating and challenging experience. Whether it’s you or someone you love, it’s common to struggle with feelings of fear, sadness, or anger as you navigate the uncertainty of your experience. The practices here help those facing illness, as well as their loved ones, embrace the present moment, make peace with themselves, and deepen interpersonal connections. Working through each personal reflection and guided meditation, one day at a time, readers will regain the strength to live fully and enhance their capacities for gratitude, generosity, and love—regardless of the changes and challenges that come.
    Backed by research and clinical studies, and interspersed with stories from the author’s own experiences working in end-of-life care, this book is a welcome offering for all of us to treat ourselves and those around us gently in order to live more fully. The book’s three parts—Mindfulness, Compassion, and Connectedness—each contain prompts for meditations, reflective writing, and daily practices that are rooted in Buddhism and can benefit everyone. Frequent reminders to “pause now” encourage us to be where we’re at and move at a pace that is comfortable.
    Updated for the first time since 2011, this new edition offers a refreshed and inviting presentation of Susan Bauer-Wu’s practical advice. It includes a new cover, updated front matter, and a few new chapters. It has been revised to expand its audience to include loved ones and caregivers, as well as those living with serious illness.
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Leaves Falling Gently: Living Fully with Serious Illness through Mindfulness, Compassion, and Connectedness
Accessible meditations, reflections, and advice for living life fully with a serious illness or helping loved ones navigate illnesses.

Dealing with chronic illness can be an isolating and challenging experience. Whether it’s you or someone you love, it’s common to struggle with feelings of fear, sadness, or anger as you navigate the uncertainty of your experience. The practices here help those facing illness, as well as their loved ones, embrace the present moment, make peace with themselves, and deepen interpersonal connections. Working through each personal reflection and guided meditation, one day at a time, readers will regain the strength to live fully and enhance their capacities for gratitude, generosity, and love—regardless of the changes and challenges that come.
    Backed by research and clinical studies, and interspersed with stories from the author’s own experiences working in end-of-life care, this book is a welcome offering for all of us to treat ourselves and those around us gently in order to live more fully. The book’s three parts—Mindfulness, Compassion, and Connectedness—each contain prompts for meditations, reflective writing, and daily practices that are rooted in Buddhism and can benefit everyone. Frequent reminders to “pause now” encourage us to be where we’re at and move at a pace that is comfortable.
    Updated for the first time since 2011, this new edition offers a refreshed and inviting presentation of Susan Bauer-Wu’s practical advice. It includes a new cover, updated front matter, and a few new chapters. It has been revised to expand its audience to include loved ones and caregivers, as well as those living with serious illness.
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Leaves Falling Gently: Living Fully with Serious Illness through Mindfulness, Compassion, and Connectedness

Leaves Falling Gently: Living Fully with Serious Illness through Mindfulness, Compassion, and Connectedness

Leaves Falling Gently: Living Fully with Serious Illness through Mindfulness, Compassion, and Connectedness

Leaves Falling Gently: Living Fully with Serious Illness through Mindfulness, Compassion, and Connectedness

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Accessible meditations, reflections, and advice for living life fully with a serious illness or helping loved ones navigate illnesses.

Dealing with chronic illness can be an isolating and challenging experience. Whether it’s you or someone you love, it’s common to struggle with feelings of fear, sadness, or anger as you navigate the uncertainty of your experience. The practices here help those facing illness, as well as their loved ones, embrace the present moment, make peace with themselves, and deepen interpersonal connections. Working through each personal reflection and guided meditation, one day at a time, readers will regain the strength to live fully and enhance their capacities for gratitude, generosity, and love—regardless of the changes and challenges that come.
    Backed by research and clinical studies, and interspersed with stories from the author’s own experiences working in end-of-life care, this book is a welcome offering for all of us to treat ourselves and those around us gently in order to live more fully. The book’s three parts—Mindfulness, Compassion, and Connectedness—each contain prompts for meditations, reflective writing, and daily practices that are rooted in Buddhism and can benefit everyone. Frequent reminders to “pause now” encourage us to be where we’re at and move at a pace that is comfortable.
    Updated for the first time since 2011, this new edition offers a refreshed and inviting presentation of Susan Bauer-Wu’s practical advice. It includes a new cover, updated front matter, and a few new chapters. It has been revised to expand its audience to include loved ones and caregivers, as well as those living with serious illness.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780834846104
Publisher: Shambhala
Publication date: 05/27/2025
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 192

About the Author

SUSAN BAUER-WU is an organizational leader, clinical scientist, and mindfulness teacher whose lifework has been dedicated to alleviating suffering and fostering well-being through contemplative wisdom. She was previously the president of the Mind & Life Institute and was also the Kluge Professor of Contemplative End-of-Life Care at the University of Virginia. She is an avid gardener and hiker, living in Charlottesville, Virginia, and is also the author of A Future We Can Love.
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