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10/30/2024

Calling all Caregivers! This Saturday. Come by and say hello!

Saturday, November 2, 20248:30 am - 4:00 pm 38th Annual Caregiver’s ConferenceNavigating the Journey:Adjusting the Sails in Dementia Caregiving Click here to register! Location Fairfax County Government Center12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia 22035 Conference Fee $35 conference fe...

03/10/2024

Present for You and Goodwin Hospice are improving end of life care. ❤️

On today’s podcast, we get to the bottom of what exactly is an end-of-life doula. We talk about what they do, how often they are used, and who pays for their work.

02/20/2024

11/21/2023

https://hospicenews.com/2023/11/16/breaking-down-costs-rois-of-hospice-death-doula-partnerships/

Doulas make a difference in quality of care!

Some hospices that have layered end-of-life doulas (EOLDs) into their workforce are seeing a return on these investments in various forms – including

09/23/2023

08/20/2023

I’m looking forward to speaking at the 2023 C-TAC-CAPC Leadership Summit in October! I will be speaking about Serious Illness/End of Life Doulas as non-traditional care staff. I hope you can join me in Washington, DC for this unique event bringing together national changemakers working to improve quality of life for people living with a serious illness.

The C-TAC - CAPC Summit 2023 brings leaders from across the country for a face-to-face gathering to empower, inspire, educate and connect as the mission continues. October 23-24, 2023 in Washington, DC. C-TAC - CAPC Summit 2023 will focus on Transforming Care for People Facing Serious Illness.

08/13/2023

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-hidden-harms-of-cpr

The brutal procedure can save lives, but only in particular cases. Why has it become a default treatment?

08/08/2023

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-green-goodbye/202308/the-pioneering-work-of-death-doulas

Once, we were all death doulas. Deep down, we still are.

07/23/2023

You are not alone❤️

05/21/2023

Love this!

https://apple.news/A2WaFs0bjTBWeMS-DhkQjaw

Taryn Smith, a 26-year-old TikToker, was in the shower when she had a funny thought: What if she died in a chicken suit? What happened next represents the way we use social media to mourn.

05/19/2023

Oh so true!

05/19/2023

Love this.

"The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself, not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths. What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light? Or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

One of the psychological problems in growing old is the fear of death. People resist the door of death. But this body is a vehicle of consciousness, and if you can identify with the consciousness, you can watch this body go like an old car. There goes the fender, there goes the tire, one thing after another— but it’s predictable. And then, gradually, the whole thing drops off, and consciousness, rejoins consciousness. It is no longer in this particular environment."
~Joseph Campbell

From The Power of Myth

https://jcf.org/titles/joseph-campbell-and-the-power-of-myth-with-bill-moyers-book/

05/16/2023

Have you thought of it this way?

05/16/2023

05/13/2023

Lovely!

I counted my years and found that I have less time to live from here on than I have lived up to now.

I feel like that child who won a packet of sweets: he ate the first with pleasure, but when he realized that there were few left, he began to enjoy them intensely.

I no longer have time for endless meetings where statutes, rules, procedures and internal regulations are discussed, knowing that nothing will be achieved.

I no longer have time to support the absurd people who, despite their chronological age, haven't grown up.

My time is too short:
I want the essence,
my soul is in a hurry.
I don't have many sweets
in the package anymore.

I want to live next to human people,
very human,
who know how to laugh at their mistakes,
and who are not inflated by their triumphs,
and who take on their responsibilities.
Thus human dignity is defended and we move towards truth and honesty.

It is the essential that makes life worth living.
I want to surround myself with people who know how to touch hearts, people who have been taught by the hard blows of life to grow with gentle touches of the soul.

Yes, I'm in a hurry, I'm in a hurry to live with the intensity that only maturity can give.
I don't intend to waste any of the leftover sweets.

I am sure they will be delicious, much more than what I have eaten so far.
My goal is to reach the end satisfied
and at peace with my loved ones
and my conscience.
We have two lives.
And the second begins when you realize you only have one.

~Mário Raul de Morais Andrade
(Oct 9, 1893 – Feb 25, 1945)
Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, photographer

04/15/2023

https://theconversationproject.org/tcp-blog/anticipatory-grief-giving-a-name-to-the-feeling/

After losing my brother and my mom to cancer, I went on a quest to understand a feeling that I could not name. I was confused about how I could already feel despair when the people I love were still with me. For me, anticipatory grief is that feeling when I know something horrible is going to happen...