How Can I Help? Stories and Reflections on Helping Professions

Every day we help someone: at home, at work, on the street, over the phone... We do what we can. But we constantly have questions: "Will I have enough strength?", "Should I continue or is that enough?", "What to do... when faced with suffering?", "What really helps?" The authors explore these complex topics and try to support all representatives of helping professions, volunteers, and simply friends and relatives who strive to help each other. The book contains stories of real people: a housewife brings animals from the zoo to the hospital; a monk cares for a wounded person on the first night of the revolution in Nicaragua; a policeman dissuades a desperate father who is trying to jump off a roof with his child; a nurse holds a dying infant in her arms so that he spends his last moments in her embrace. In moments when we need to take care of each other, all these stories and authors' reflections can give us strength, clarity, and wisdom.