How Can You Sit There and Complain? It’s your first day back whether that’s days or weeks. You are nervous about going back to work. You might be experiencing a multitude of feelings and sensations and wonder how they could be happening all at once. You can’t remember what you just read. You forget your [...]
Archive for the ‘End-of-Life’ Category
Empowered Grieving
Posted in BlogTalkRadio, End-of-Life, tagged grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, health, mental health, Support Groups on February 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Presence and Support
Posted in End-of-Life, tagged death, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, health, mental health on February 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In Kubler-Ross’ book On Death and Dying, she wrote, that when someone dies at home, there is the “comfort of shared responsibility and shared mourning. It prepares them gradually and helps them view death as part of life, an experience which may help them grow and mature”. I’m not a big fan of what we [...]
Didn’t get to tune in? Check out the podcast. . .
Posted in BlogTalkRadio, End-of-Life, Grief Theories, tagged Podcast on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Listen to my new episode Namaste? at http://tobtr.com/s/2856879. #BlogTalkRadio
Hello Operator? Please connect me with. . .
Posted in End-of-Life, Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged compassion, family, friends, grief, grieving, healing, hospice, inspiration, meditation, mindful, mindfulness, peace, Ram Dass, relationships, Stephen Levine on February 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?” ~~Stephen Levine I think it is funny that when I thought of a special phone call, I thought of a pink princess phone. Yes, we [...]
I would gladly trade my lessons. . . .
Posted in End-of-Life, Quotes, tagged death, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, mental health, Religion and Spirituality, Viktor Frankl on January 31, 2012 | 6 Comments »
“One Day – an idea that will horrify you now – the misfortune will be a blessed memory of a being who will never leave you. But you are in a stage of unhappiness where it is impossible for you to have faith in these reassurances.” ~~Marcel Proust Last week, someone posted a question to [...]
No Death, No Fear
Posted in End-of-Life, Mindfulness & Buddhism, tagged Buddhism, end-of-life, Grief Loss and Bereavement, inspiration, PlumVillage, relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen on January 27, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Here is a link to a Dharma talk by Thich Nhat Hanh… please forgive the very low-grade audio… I’m going to see if I can find a podcast somewhere like Plum Village’s site… When I was in retreat in 2003 with Thay and his monastics (outside Madison, WI) the last day of the retreat was focused on this [...]

