Grief is not an illness. It’s a natural response to loss. You may fear that you won’t survive the pain as the waves of sadness and sorrow come crashing down. It’s hard. It feels unbearable.
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Fear is useful, at times. Its goal is to alert us and to protect us and keep us safe. When it begins to take over our world, however, it does the very opposite. It blinds our discernment and decisions. Fear then feeds fear and more fear.
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Do you remember the first time you sat with a person who was close to death?
“The first dying person I sat with was a young man, a twenty-eight year-old cancer patient. He was the same age I was at the time…”
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Being a companion to a dying person, we need a companion too. One who has your back, is there for you and walks alongside with you. My new book is as a ‘companion for the companion’. Browse inside now…
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Spirituality is an integral part of our human experience. Cicely Saunders spoke about the need to attend to a person’s ‘total pain’: not just physical, but social, emotional and spiritual pain, too.
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Michelle Kenefick is a Disaster Mental Health Responder and a graduate of the Contemplative End-of-Life Care Certificate. The significance of what she had learned became all too apparent when tragedy struck a small community in Connecticut where she had once lived…
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Interview with Kirsten DeLeo
Q: The program is called Authentic Presence. That’s a tall order! Kirsten: It’s hard to be fully present with compassionate attention, no doubt. Actually, the graduates gave the program the title, Authentic Presence…
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