I see and hear many grappling with what it means to be “essential” as a healthcare worker and how to find connection virtually when in-person visits are not ethical, wise, or possible. To me, this speaks to even deeper conversations…
Resilience and Boundaries to Prevent Compassion Fatigue and Protect Team Health (a 4 minute read) I teach boundaries to caring professionals and volunteers, based on both psychology, research, and my own human goof ups and successes over much of my…
I’ve bragged about Southwest Airlines and their employees before. Here’s another reason to do so! Finished my gig in Philly and am at the airport juggling flight cancellations and delays due to weather. It’s meant I’ve been around the very patient, helpful,…
The Tissue Effect: 3 Things to Remember When They Cry ( a 3 minute read) When I speak via webinars or in person about BE-ing with Suffering, I’m often refer to “The Tissue Effect” and get a lot of questions…
WHEN THEY LEARN YOU WORK FOR HOSPICE (a 5 1/2 minute read) “I often joke that if you want to suck all the air out of the room at a dinner party, tell folks you work for hospice…” I…
When a patient asks you to pray: 5 things to consider (a 4 minute read) Every time I train healthcare professionals about ethical and respectful spiritual care for persons of all faiths, backgrounds, or even no faith, I’m ALWAYS asked this…
Don’t Feel Sorry for the First Responder You See Working on a Holiday, guest blog by Park “Sparky” Knight (a 3 minute read) —First published on 12/26/17 by the author on a social media post. It was too good not to…
We do not “treat” grief, we sit with it, so neither should we pathologize it. One of the most poignant, and challenging, presentations in my training curricula is about Being with Grief Expressed as Conflict and Anger. It is easy…
Building Team Resilience: Increasing Support, Community & Appreciation (a 3 1/2 minute read) Leadership experts these days agree that employees are our most important customers, and I believe this to be true. One of my favorite, and one of the most effective,…
Respecting Grief, a guest blog by Susanne Slay-Westbrook (a 3 1/2 minute read) Susanne is a contact through the mental health community who has an interesting take on working with grief using respect as a foundation for connection. I greatly…