In today’s episode, Saul talks to Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Boatwright about her book, “The last things we talk about…” As a Chaplain, Pastor and Certified Financial Planner, Elizabeth “Libby” Boatwright has worked alongside hundreds of people over the last thirty years counseling families on end of life issues, loss and grief, composing memorials, working alongside lawyers with estate plans and educating people with coping skills in the midst of crises.
May 29, 2023•40 min•Ep. 120
In Today's episode, Saul talks to Rachel S. Jordan on the intersection between trauma and end of life care. Rachel holds a B.S. in Bible/theology and Speech Communication from Multnomah University and an M.Div w/a Concentration in Hospital Chaplaincy from the Portland Seminary of George Fox University. In 2014 she became a neuro-trauma survivor and in 2021 she completed her Chaplain residency at the same medical center in which she was treated: Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, a level one trauma c...
May 22, 2023•37 min•Ep. 119
Welcome to our first episode of season 4 of the Hospice Chaplaincy Show. We are grateful to our listeners for their continued support. In this episode, Saul talks to David Hugger who is a retired hospice chaplain. David is also a podcaster and the author of two hospice books. His first book, “Hospice Is a Gift”, includes a wealth of information for those needing hospice services. His second book, “Hospice Alpha and Omega” is a handbook for hospice clients and their caregivers. David’s books can ...
May 15, 2023•38 min•Ep. 118
Katie’s story “ What Happened in Room 10? ” won a George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting in 2021. It is the product of a months-long investigation into the first COVID outbreak in an American nursing home — and, more broadly, the rise of the for-profit nursing home industry. Previously, she worked as a documentary film correspondent and producer at NBC News. She made short documentaries from across the United States and abroad. And she appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News and MSNBC. Be...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 77
Dr. Maingi is the Dana-Farber Cancer Network Health Equity & Inclusion liaison at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at South Shore. Dr. Maingi is also co-chair of the ASCO SGM Task Force and a member of the Diversity and Inclusivity Task Force, Symptoms and Survivorship Task Force, and Practice Health Task Force.
Mar 09, 2023•38 min•Ep. 93
Dr. Cacciatore specializes in counseling those affected by traumatic death. She works with and counsels families from all around the world who have experienced catastrophic deaths. Her therapeutic interventions are always presence-and-mindfulness based and include narrative, dialectical, and trauma-focused therapies. She also teaches meditation, mindfulness, and compassion and ahimsa practices to students and clients from around the world. As an advocate of “green” mental health care after a tra...
Jan 25, 2023•48 min•Ep. 106
EDUCATION Ph.D., Clinical Psychology University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1998 – 2004 Bachelor of Arts, Psychology Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 1992 – 1996 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Director of Clinical Training University of Arizona, Department of Psychology 2019 – present Associate Professor of Psychology University of Arizona, Department of Psychology 2017 – present Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Arizona, Department of Psychology 2012 – 2017 Assistant Professor in Resid...
Jan 21, 2023•41 min•Ep. 109
Author of Storytelling with Children, and Storytelling and the Art of Imagination , her book, Body Eloquence , won the 2008 US Books Best Books Award in the field of Alternative Medicine. She has followed the path of storytelling deep into the physiological processes of the human body and continues to pioneer new consciousness of the relationship between language, imagination and well-being.
Dec 21, 2022•38 min•Ep. 117
Paul and Sally Nash live in Birmingham UK and married in 1986. They are both ordained Anglicans, both Myers Briggs Type Indicator Practitioners (although opposite types), both support London football teams (Sally Spurs and Paul Chelsea) both play golf and have worked with and for each other in some capacity for much of the time they have known each other.
Dec 05, 2022•53 min•Ep. 116
Donna’s research program focuses on health services and health policy; primarily in relation to aging, ageism, and end-of-life care. Her work is oriented to myth busting, to ensure effective and accessible healthcare services for older and younger people. Her investigations often involve population data and mixed-methods research. She has over 300 articles, books, book chapters, and other peer-reviewed communications in print. She is frequently and widely consulted for expert commentary on aging...
Nov 28, 2022•49 min•Ep. 115
Favorite Jobs and Assignments: News reporting for CFTO-CTV in Toronto, Canada Host of The Rosemary Keevil Show (original, I know!), a live, drive-time, current affairs talk show, CFUN Radio (CHUM National Radio Network) in Vancouver, Canada Guest relations for the Vancouver International Film Festival Managing editor of Scarlett magazine (now defunct: not my fault!) for the professional woman, in Vancouver Can-can dancer at Diamond Tooth Gerties Gambling Casino in Dawson City, Yukon Destination ...
Nov 14, 2022•27 min•Ep. 113
As a speaker and spiritual teacher, Jennifer is a recognized leader in personal development and spirituality, and has led signature workshops on intuition, meditation, connecting to the Spirit World, and other spiritual themes. She continues to study new teachings and regularly attends workshops as well, including the Arthur Findlay College in the UK. As an author, her healing meditations and new book, A Healing Journey, provide comfort and guidance, like a lighthouse in a storm for those seekin...
Nov 07, 2022•36 min•Ep. 112
Recently, she has been studying existential concerns at the start of life: what does our origin mean to us? What is the meaning of our beginning? What does it mean to bring life into the world? By comparing and contrasting existential concerns at birth and death she tries to unravel processes of meaning, with specific focus on embodiment and relationality. In the past, she has studied concepts of symbolic immortality (notions of a “postself”), ethics of end-of-life decision-making and the role o...
Oct 31, 2022•35 min•Ep. 111
Anne teaches pastoral theology in St Patrick's College, Maynooth and is Visiting Lecturer and Supervisor at the Margaret Beaufort Institute in Cambridge, England. She supports ministry colleagues in her Pastoral Supervision practice. Anne is married with three adult children. She loves swimming in the Atlantic at first light, throughout the year. She recently published her book Called: Women in Ministry in Ireland based on interviews with female Christian ministers across the denominations from ...
Oct 24, 2022•40 min•Ep. 110
A Florida native, Hank is a graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in history and was on football scholarship. He received his Master of Divinity degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. After serving for five years right after seminary in a very traditional church in Macon, Georgia he moved to the Washington, DC area to be a part of the very nontraditional Church of the Saviour. For a year following the move to DC, Hank worked as a carpenter an...
Oct 10, 2022•35 min•Ep. 108
Suzy Hopkins is a retired journalist who worked for four Northern California newspapers, then founded and ran a community magazine in the Sierra foothills for 10 years. Hallie Bateman is a writer and illustrator based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Buzzfeed and many others. Together Suzy and Hallie created the book: What to Do When I’m Gone: A Mother’s Wisdom to Her Daughter .
Oct 03, 2022•38 min•Ep. 107
Tom is also a well-known speaker, having offered conference programs across the United States, Canada, and Japan and in England, Australia, Israel, and Germany as well as innumerable talks and workshops for nurses, physicians, funeral directors, clinical psychologists, social service providers, gerontologists, hospice workers, bereavement coordinators, clergy, educators, civic organizations and the general public. He taught philosophy at Bowling Green State University for nearly twenty-five year...
Sep 20, 2022•31 min•Ep. 105
For instance, relatives sometimes worry their loved one will be “doped up” or become addicted to strong pain medications. Or they may fear their family member will suffer severe pain or other symptoms without sufficient relief. In this episode, Dr. Elizabeth Miles will shade some light on all of that.
Sep 05, 2022•33 min•Ep. 103
Katie is a practicing adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner. She is also the founder and CEO of Death Care Coach, a company offering end-of-life guidance, consulting, education, and coaching to families, caregivers, and healthcare providers. Before founding Death Care Coach, she taught full-time as a Professor at Drexel University in the College of Nursing and Health Professions Undergraduate Program, and an adjunct Professor in the Nurse Practitioner Program. Duncan has been working...
Aug 29, 2022•36 min•Ep. 102
In this episode, Saul and Joe reflect on the 100 published episodes of The Hospice Chaplaincy Show and reaching listenership in over 50 countries.
Aug 22, 2022•39 min•Ep. 101
She received the Canadian Association of Teacher Education (2021) thesis and dissertation award for her work’s contribution to teacher education. Using her skills and expertise for service, she created and led numerous Grief and Writing Through Grief workshops for educators and bereavement support centers across North America. Apart from being an educator, she is a writer at heart and has released two books based on her doctoral dissertation: Life: To Be Given Back Again to Whence It Came and th...
Aug 15, 2022•40 min•Ep. 100
His research, advocacy, and consultation have resulted in the development of first- time music therapy programs in hospices throughout the nation, thereby creating many new music therapy positions. He is the author of the text, Hospice and Palliative Care Music Therapy: A Guide to Program Development and Clinical Care, and his research has been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals. He also wrote a chapter titled, Music and Grief Work with Children and Adolescents, in a book titled C...
Aug 08, 2022•38 min•Ep. 99
She has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine , JAMA , Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management . Her research has been covered by media outlets including The New York Times , The Washington Post , Reuters , and NPR . Prior to pursuing her PhD in public policy from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, Dr. Cross spent several years as a social worker in home hosp...
Aug 02, 2022•32 min•Ep. 98
Cheryl’s entrepreneurial spirit flourished in photography, modeling and fashion. She launched a successful international bridal line, Christopher and LaLou. Cheryl, along with her husband, has always been involved in community and ministry. Along with others, she brought Young Life to Southeast Texas and launched a bible study for unchurched women called Wellspring. Life and family forever changed with the death of two of her sons and one grandson. Her life is shared with her husband, Gary Chris...
Jul 25, 2022•42 min•Ep. 97
Jean has extensive experience counseling individuals, couples, and families through issues of loss, grief, chronic pain and disease, trauma, anxiety, stress, and depression, communication and relationship problems, and transitional phases of life. Jean had been a Hospice nurse for years in patients' homes. She feels especially grateful for the blessed opportunity to have served those special patients and their families during such a sensitive transitional time. Jean’s training also includes nati...
Jul 19, 2022•36 min•Ep. 96
Marcus has authored four books and is currently at work on a fifth. He holds a B.S. in sociology from Missouri State University and a M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University in the city of New York. In 2017, Marcus was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches pre-meds the art of “being with.” Marcus lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife, Marvelyne, and h...
Jul 11, 2022•32 min•Ep. 95
In Today's episode, Saul talks with Holly Vossel a reporter for hospice news about improving access and quality of hospice care for LGBTQ+
Jun 27, 2022•26 min•Ep. 94
In this week's episode, Saul talks with Chaplain Kevin Jordan on his life's journey, calling and ministry.
Apr 05, 2022•41 min•Ep. 92
Jose is the co-founder of Inner Immersion, LLC, an organization teaching a breakthrough mindfulness modality. Together with his wife and partner, Anastasia Hernandez, he has recently co-founded Immersive Arts, a collaborative of art, design and medical professionals working with hospitals and other healthcare organizations to offer calming, comforting and healing experiences for patients, families and staff in these settings while providing the platform for further research into art’s impact on ...
Mar 28, 2022•54 min•Ep. 91
Education CMHIMP Certified mental health integrative medicine provider Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Ryokan College, Los Angeles, CA M.A., Clinical Psychology, Ryokan College, Los Angeles, CA B.A., Studio Art, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Phi Beta Kappa
Mar 25, 2022•45 min•Ep. 89
