MARIA LOURDES A. DE VERA
Author and Artist
The following is a collection of my latest and most meaningful writing projects. Each piece is unique in style and content and represents a distinct moment in my career. I hope you enjoy my work and I invite you to contact me with any questions.
Frame of Mind
The Art of Sex,
Classique Journal on the challenge of Intimacy
2020
The book narrates the essence of depth and warmth in a relationship. The challenge of building long-term intimacy is a gradual process uncovering mutual vulnerability, daring openness, and sharing.
The Autumn Leaves
2020
The seasons mirror the different stages of age and maturity. The time to shed begins as the falling of leaves commences where the crowning glory of youth is replaced with the wisdom of love and experience. Autumn is the peak of ones life and the time to gather. Just before the winter time approaches, Caring for the elderly is one of the toughest and resistance to care is a critical task facing family and caregivers.
Art in Caring
the role of spirituality in health and hospital care
2020
The role of spirituality in hospital care is an integrative approach that offers health care professionals and Individual caregivers the tools necessary to provide compassionate care to the end of life patients. It describes the importance of a holistic approach addressing the needs of mind, body and spirit.
Healthcare acknowledges that spiritual well being of a person help improve to health, quality of life and find meaning while coping with illness, loss, grief or pain and prepare for closure.
Portfolio of published works
Revisiting the Past
The following is a collection of my past and most controversial writing projects. Each piece is unique in style and outlandish content that represented a distinct moment in my career. I hope you enjoy my work and I invite you to contact me with any questions.
The Art of Dying
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“Reading the book gives you a haunting feeling of how death can be experienced. Buried in words are various attempts to make death acceptable and at the very least humanizing. It presents dying as a tussle of will and skill, a tug of war between hope and surrender and a struggle between acceptance and denial. It presents a vivid description of death from someone who you will believe died and ordered to recall what transpired. It is a deep declaration of immersion that makes dying both literally and figuratively lucid and crisp. It is a beautifully crafted depiction of an internally devastating condition, filled with uncertainty and painting a picture of a soul slowly leaving its body. It is a call of someone struggling to go yet clinging to the bargain of staying intact."
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Edwin Rodriguez, MD, MHPEd (Pediatrician -Pediatric Hematologist) Former Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology Faculty of Medicine and Surgery University of Sto Tomas Manila. Philippines.
Art and the Creation Stories
TESTIMONIALS
I enjoyed how the book combines teaching values and virtues during storytelling and art works. The language used to explain the child’s emotional and social capacities, the role of storytelling in school and the physiology of storytelling was very medical, a bit too high for laymen; maybe graphics on the Neural pathway and simple drawings about it can break the weight of the explanation. Congratulations for the very interesting way of teaching art. You have used your talent to uplift children’s interest in the arts and appreciation of God’s creation.
Rosa Maria H. Marcelo, MD, FPPS, FPCAMS Professor of Paediatrics. College of Medicine, University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital
President,
Philippine Society of Adolescent Medicine Specialist, Inc.
About Me
Unveiling the Writer
Maria Lourdes de Vera is an award-winning author and an exceptional artist. An ICU Nurse and former Nursing Clinical Instructor. She handles Research as her main field of interest and written 18 teaching resource modules for medical surgical nursing. Advances the importance of compassionate end of Life care.
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She likes to write about the importance of childhood, child development and the family. A Psychologist advances the cause for the well being of abandoned, neglected and abused children.
A member of the Rotary Club International, a humanitarian organization, advocates social consciousness and social service.
An multi talented artist, she supports the significance of creative art works for children as an effective approach to imaginative thinking, problem solving and social learning. Restorative Education to facilitate the psycho social emotional abilities of the child. A licensed Professional Teacher and a former Lower school Main teacher for an alternative Schooling.