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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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If you didn’t get to tune in to our first Blog Talk Radio Show, please check out the podcast. Tonight we had a caller, a social worker, who was concerned about the staff at her agency. She works in a residential center and finds that her staff is dealing with patient’s deaths more often and [...]

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Michael’s Words

Why is it that a dying man can say I love you and we cannot even think of those words every day?   How can we feel this very emotion when we so numbed to everything?   I hear Michael’s words over and over again like the songs of angels.   May his words keep [...]

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Gentle Meditation Although we are not often taught this, the most skillful way through an impasse in meditation is to become aware of it and of what holds it together and keeps it running. To do this, you need to keep doing the meditation instructions that have gotten you to this point, but instead of [...]

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According to Advancements in Bereavement, “Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, reports that research has found your risk of a heart attack is 21 times greater than normal in the day following the death of a loved one and decreases steadily during the first month.” Some say we die of a broken heart.  [...]

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/dont-confuse-grief-with-d_b_1233883.html I really appreciate that thinkers in my field, specifically humanistic existential, are speaking out against the American Psychiatric Association.  Dr. Stolorow posted some comments to Dr. Allen Frances‘ blog on the Huffington Post. I think we need to take a stand against the APA.  They have the power to create the illusion and delusion [...]

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Longaker has a wonderful book, “Facing Death and Finding Hope:  A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying“.  She has worked for years with Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan teacher and author.  Christine helped to establish two important institutions in our country . . . Hospice of Santa Cruz County and Rigpa Fellowship (US).  She also [...]

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Namaste 02/14 by Honoring Your Journey | Blog Talk Radio. Learn what the word Namaste means and how it relates to your journey with illness, with grieving, with caregiving, with the present moment. Join us for our first 15-minute broadcast to learn how Namaste Consulting is where you want to tune into to learn how [...]

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Reblogged from Hands-of-Faith Holistic Healing Centers® Blog: My friend Ellie and I were driving to the beach when she asked me to pull over. She was experiencing sharp pain in her chest. We stayed quiet as she put her hand to her heart and focused on her breathing. The pain eased and then stopped within [...]

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