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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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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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Spiritual Reactions Searching for meaning in loss Changes in spiritual beliefs, feelings, or behaviors Experiencing a sense of the deceased’s presence Searching for a way to live without the decease They say the clothes make the person. . . but I think what makes the person is their spirituality and their relationship to it; especially when [...]

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A big part of the work I did at hospice was working with children and it was so frustrating that people who worked with these kids did not do good loss histories …. kids got medicated when they needed to have people listen to them, play with them, and care. I used to write for [...]

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John is one of my favorite authors and teachers on relationships, grief, dying, etc.  This is the first part of two clips.  He makes a good point as he speaks to the moderator…. when we talk about relationships, health, family, etc, we are really talking about dying and grieving.  One day, maybe we will see [...]

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Cognitive Reactions Obsessive thinking Inability to concentrate Fantasizing Apathy Dreams Disorientation and confusion Rehearsing and reviewing aspects of the loss Some call it brain fog.  Others call it day dreaming.  We can experience it as being at a loss for words.  Or we can experiencing it as searching for our lost keys, only to find [...]

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I love working on this blog.  I find that it feeds a part of me that has been missing doing end-of-life care and grief work day in and day out… I love teaching, helping people to see that illness, dying, and grieving are natural parts of human life.  And I feel so honored when people [...]

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