Health & Wellness Blog Posts

There are special dynamics involved in the caring experience, whether you are caring for a sick or disabled child, your spouse, parent, sibling, grandparent, friend, or client. Caring for your loved one in any respect is an honorable and important role�... Read more

Can you be prepared to go the emergency room? I mean after all the definition of an “emergency” is “a serious, dangerous or unexpected situation”, so can anyone be prepared for an unexpected situation?   The answer is yes, you can be pr... Read more

As a volunteer hospital chaplain and author of the hospice~utilized book “Dying Without Crying,” I find one of the most prominent struggles between the world of the dying and the world of the living is communication.Because the language of the dying ... Read more

A Stroke or CVA is when the blood flow to the brain is cut off. You can have an ischemic stroke caused by a blood clot or a hemorrhagic stroke caused by bleeding in the brain. There are nearly 7 million stroke survivors in the US and stroke is the 5th le... Read more

The role of a death doula, (or end of life doula), has been gaining a lot of interest in the past few years. So what exactly is a death doula? The term doula has been around for centuries. In ancient Greece, it was used to describe both a ho... Read more