Award winning author and nurse, Barbara Karnes has seen the evolution of the hospice movement from the beginning and has seen what is working and what is not. We have a very frank discussion in this episode of how the new wave of death awareness may fit in to help fix the weak areas in our present system. Barbara's website: HERE End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Jun 23, 2015•51 min
It began with hospice in the late 1960s, the first wave of an incredible movement to bring comfort and peace to people who were dying in misery, alone and in pain. There is another wave of empowerment at the end of life that is going on now; this time, on the individual level. There are independent practitioners all over the world, heeding the call to serve the dying in very creative ways. This podcast describes this movement, the organization Deanna Cochran created to nurture it, and the first ...
Jun 16, 2015•49 min
The core of palliative care is why it was created--to address the whole person and that person's relationship to themselves, their family and their community. In palliative medicine, the reason we are doing all this is because we know we must look at the person fully, not just their disease. We are looking at what is meaningful to them. We are asking the questions: what do you want now? what is important to you? what do you need? Dr. Tim beautifully describes the true essence of palliative medic...
Jun 09, 2015•47 min
People ask all the time, "so, what really is an end-of-life doula?" This answer still applies today. The professional definitions may continue to change but the spirit of the practice does not. This session describes some of the issues we face along with what we do and why our service is not so easy to pin down. Do you want to dive deeply and explore your desire to accompany the dying? If you are interested, take a look at our EOL Doula Program here: https://school.accompanyingthedying.com...
Jun 02, 2015•32 min
Liliana De Lima, Executive Director of The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, talks with me about trends in supportive care for the dying around the world, what is still needed for people to access medications at the end of life and about the way various countries view palliative care. Please visit IAHPC website to find out how you may be helpful in your part of the world: IAHPC Website End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas...
May 19, 2015•45 min
Michael Fratkin, MD is showing America a new way to bring palliative care to people who would not otherwise receive it. At a time of great demographic and cultural change in our society, Dr. Fratkin has created ResolutionCare to insure capable and soulful care of everyone, everywhere as they approach the completion of life. ResolutionCare leverages partnerships with existing healthcare providers and payers to provide telehealth applications that bring greater quality of living and greater qualit...
May 12, 2015•46 min
Elaine is a Life Coach in private practice, specializing in career coaching, in Carmel, Indiana and the author of four inspirational books. She is also a Certified Life Cycle Celebrant and provides individuals and families in the greater Indianapolis area with personalized and unique ceremonies that mark life’s important transitions. When not facilitating programs, coaching, or writing books, she blogs at http://blog.elainevoci.com/ Visit her website: www.elainevoci.com Twitter: @elainevoci End ...
May 05, 2015•52 min
Bodhi Be , the Executive Director of 'Doorway Into Light', is a teacher, guide and ordained minister in the universal Sufi lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan and Samuel Lewis. He is an independent funeral director, hospice volunteer, notary, and the founder and president of Doorway Into Light’s The Death Store, Hawaii’s first certified green funeral home. He is happily married for 29 years, parent and step-parent to 5 grown children. A grandparent, coffin maker, crematory apprentice, artist, entrepre...
Apr 28, 2015•55 min
This one woman show is written and performed by Giselle Suarez. Giselle graduated from the Royal Theatre Arts Academy in Utrecht in the Netherlands. She went on to perform in classic and original works, throughout the European professional theatre circuit. Together with her husband, she founded MOMENTA, a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands, which completed several theatre projects in Central America working with the young Mayan population. In 2009, her mother was diagnosed with a b...
Apr 21, 2015•40 min
Sara Farmer lives in Texas with her husband, son, daughter, and two cats. She is a former teacher turned stay-at-home mom. When she's not tending to her kids, she spends time with her husband, reads, writes, and sings. Following the death of her daughter Lucy at 15 months, she began writing in earnest, sharing her journey through grief and child loss. She is a passionate advocate for several causes, including pediatric cardiomyopathy, vaccines, feminism, and animal rights. Please visit, share an...
Apr 07, 2015•45 min
In hospice, we expect people are going to be dealing with their mortality and that there will be suffering in this. Many people find meaning in this struggle. Some simply suffer. We offer anti-psychotic medications, benzodiazapines and anti-depressants and we try all kinds of non-medicinal ways to address this. And, we have a drug, still out of reach, that with just one dose, has been shown to alleviate this suffering. Psilocybin, a hallucinagen (still a Class 1 drug) is out of a person's system...
Mar 31, 2015•30 min
The Art of Dying V Conference. NYC. April 24 - 26, 2015. This conference is a thinking person's delight in exploring our dying. Today's podcast focuses on the man behind this and other powerful gatherings around the world such as the Esoteric Quests. A prolific writer and thought leader, Ralph is a guiding force in the worldwide consciousness movement. Read more about him and his work: Ralph's website End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, compani...
Mar 24, 2015•40 min
A doula is a beautiful word and concept. It reminds me so much of palliative care, a premier type of holistic service and support. Not just physical, not just emotional, not just the person who is ill but the whole family...these are so many of the qualities of the doula. This episode is all about doulas at the end of life and how we may use them in the time period prior to hospice. Pre-hospice palliative care and doulas would be a beautiful connection, a very powerful team. End of Life Care Cer...
Mar 17, 2015•49 min
Brandie Bradley is the second person I have interviewed in my series of talking to Americans (who are not working in healthcare) about their experiences with illness through bereavement. A Native of Louisiana, Brandie presently lives in Austin Texas and is a mother of 2 boys, 5 and 2. Just 22, her journey handling the suicide of her mother is amazing. She has insights far beyond her years. When she's not working or at the park with her kids, she's enjoying Austin's live music scene. End of Life ...
Mar 10, 2015•29 min
Penny Davis, author of the book "PJ's, Pearls and Fishing Poles"will talk about hospice, her journey serving at literally every level and share some insights of her career. Her book is all about hospice and how hospice is all about living. You can find Penny HERE. End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Mar 03, 2015•34 min
"Robert J. Barnhart has a BA in comparative religion from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. He has been a strong advocate for the study of psychoactive materials in spiritual and nontraditional healing practices for many years. He sits on the board of both The Heffter Research Institute and The Multi-disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. He has now completed producing this documentary film about the use of psilocybin medicine in modern healing practices. He currently lives in Austin, ...
Feb 22, 2015•37 min
Are you a person who avoids topics about death or dying? Why are you uncomfortable with it do you think? Or are you a healthcare professional that may want some insight into why some of the people you serve may avoid it? READ MORE The Journey Radio podcast sponsors are: http://www.Hospicetimes.com and http://www.Wellbeyondcare.com Listen in as Kiersten, a 46 year old woman from Austin, Texas, describes her feelings about this. It is a very tender topic for her and she is not alone. People will h...
Jan 20, 2015•31 min
Nancy Gershman is “the Memory Artist” – a personal historian and digital artist who playfully drills down with irony and humor to discover what has always made the patient feel most alive. Read More About this Picture . Show Sponsors: HospiceTimes.com and WellBeyondCare.com End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Jan 13, 2015•36 min
Lauren Tarrant and Jeffrey Fry of Well Beyond Care are addressing the issues of high costs of caregiving and the low wages of caregivers in a unique way with their new company, Well Beyond Care. Don’t miss this episode as it is packed with information that will validate why it’s so hard and how they can help. End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Jan 06, 2015•52 min
Welcome to our Special Christmas show! Get your favorite beverage and relax with us as Linda shares her very powerful message. With humor and grace, she speaks as only a person who "has been there" can. READ MORE . End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Dec 23, 2014•1 hr 3 min
Sarah Kerr is a Death Midwife and Ceremonialist in Calgary, Alberta. Her focus is on the spiritual and relational support of people who are at the end of life and guides them through this spiritual landscape. READ MORE . End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Dec 16, 2014•34 min
Dr. Robert Friedman is Chief Medical Officer at Hospice Austin in Austin, Texas. Join us as we Kickoff THE JOURNEY radio podcast! We will be discussing what palliative care is, about palliative care community clinics and about access to services. READ MORE End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Dec 09, 2014•33 min
If the idea of the One Mind is both ancient and current, why do we need another book about it? Up to now, the concept of the One Mind has rested mainly on philosophy, spiritual insights, and reports of people’s personal experiences. Not anymore! We have an abundance of empirical evidence pointing to the One Mind. READ MORE End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Dec 06, 2014•53 min
What really makes a difference in someone’s life who is living with the effects of dementia? Joyce Simard, creator of Namaste Care shares with us a beautiful way to connect with people affected that not only increases the quality of their life but also ours. Namaste Care not just an idea but a systematic way of interacting with someone. Join us as we explore this. READ MORE End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives sin...
Dec 06, 2014•57 min
Dr. Jessica Zitter is vibrant, articulate, accessible and your advocate in ICU. She’s created a unique position for herself of being both an ICU and Palliative physician, not a common combination in today’s medicine. She will talk all about some of the issues facing families and healthcare works at the end of life in the ICU setting. READ MORE End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Dec 06, 2014•57 min
Join Us for an uplifting talk about the phenomenon of after death communication. Some people think that it has never happened to them, until they stop and think about all those times….”nah, it was just my imagination.” Or, was it? READ MORE End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Dec 06, 2014•54 min
What is Energy Medicine? Tonight we will be talking with a modern day Shaman on her perspectives on health, illness, recovery, dying and death. She has much to say and is a wonderfully grounded and practical healer. Tune in to our interesting dive into her world. READ MORE End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Dec 06, 2014•1 hr 4 min
Spend some time with Caitlin and I as we discuss what it is like living with a serious chronic illness. She shares insights that will help us be real with the people in our lives who’s health may not be the greatest at the moment. Are you at a loss about how to ‘be’ in this situation? Listen in! READ MORE End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Dec 06, 2014•59 min
We will explore the power of LOVE to heal mind, body and spirit with Dr. Karen Wyatt. She has a powerful, healing message for all of us, no matter on what side of illness we stand. The person who is ill, the caregiver, the healer…we are all deeply affected by our relationship to our own mortality. READ MORE End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Dec 06, 2014•55 min
Discover the grassroots movement of Palliative Care with renowned expert Dr. Ira Byock, who has been in the forefront of the industry for many years. Articulate, warm, genuine and full of insight into how it is possible to receive quality medical care that will relieve your suffering no matter what your diagnosis or prognosis or how you choose to treat it. READ MORE End of Life Care Certificate Program Learn.Create.Serve. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005...
Dec 06, 2014•58 min
