The Village Healer

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  • To Tell, Or Not To Tell The Children, There’s No Question

    It is our job as parents to protect, nurture, and guide our children into whole human beings. It is our responsibility to do this to the best of our ability. If we do it right, the parenting role will take… Continue reading

    To Tell, Or Not To Tell The Children, There’s No Question

  • The ACTS Of Empowerment

    ACTS of Empowerment One of the scariest situations we can be in, is the one where we are not in control. This time in our country’s timeline will go down as one of the scariest of all; A time when… Continue reading

    The ACTS Of Empowerment

  • A Dialogue About Death

    Every story ever written has a beginning, middle and an end. Every author considers the end when first sitting down to write a storyline; However in the greatest story an individual will ever author, the end is often left unscripted.… Continue reading

    A Dialogue About Death

  • Pandemic Traumatic Grief

    To a certain degree there is trauma in every loss, whether it is the unexpectedness of it, the suffering of it, the impact of it, the violence of it or the massiveness of it. Every loss has an element of… Continue reading

  • We Aren't Immortal

    “So I find myself speechless, an animal unheard of…my father is now on comfort care, unexpected to live past the weekend. Who prepares you for such a calamity of events? Who prepares you for a hostile mother, wickedness and comfortable… Continue reading

  • The Power of Presence

    It was a Monday, like any other Monday and I had a new patient to assess. Talking to the hospice nurse before I made my visit I learned that Violet had been admitted on Friday in stable condition was expected… Continue reading

  • Why I Am Not Called A Death Doula

    ‘Death Doula’, while I love alliteration, has the feel of ‘Angel of Death’…and that couldn’t be further from the truth. While the end of life doula profession is being modeled after birth doulas, that is where the similarity ends. A… Continue reading

  • The Elephant In The Room Is Dying

    Talking about death and dying is considered taboo. It is as if we have this belief that we will manifest it just by speaking of it. This is no more true than speaking of the sunset causes the sun to… Continue reading

  • Why I Don't Help, Empower or Hustle

    I don’t help, empower or hustle. Continue reading

  • Life After The Dark

    It is slowly all at once, Life after the Dark. Like the sun, rising on an overcast day, is imperceptible until you suddenly realize it has indeed cleared the horizon and your world once again illuminated…even if through a dull… Continue reading