I was chatting with a student of mine today and listening to her sharing. I understood on a deeper level how spiritually and emotionally impactful giving care can be, especially within a care system. Here are two things she shared that reminded me how important it is to take care of our care providers: 1) A client/patient/resident of hers died several days ago and she was … [Read more...]
Remembering Uncle Bob
By Rick Dignard Sometime in 2008-09, at 81, Uncle Bob got some bad news about prostate cancer and decided to live life as full as possible until the end instead of taking the treatment path. He did a bunch of things, one being to rent a favorite car he always wanted to drive and also to spend time with important people in his life. At one point he told his 3 kids, … [Read more...]
The Heart Doesn’t Break.
I hear and see the use of the term heartbreak often when we are looking at grief and loss. For me it is not an accurate term of what is really happening. It sets up this idea that if somehow our heart is breaking we need to fixed it, to mend it in some way, that something is damaged or wrong - Our heart is not breaking at all! Remember our words are powerful and cast a … [Read more...]
If there is A Formula for grief it may be – Follow the Hearts.
Years ago I was on a trip in Mexico and was blessed to have a great teacher leading a small group of truth seekers. He had a PHD in Mayan studies and was himself a Mayan Shaman, a powerful combination indeed. I felt a bit like Carlos Castaneda as I stumbled my way through the amazing places and ways Don Jorge taught me. I had many amazing experiences along the way but … [Read more...]
Surviving Cancer and Loosing Our Youthful Innocence
There can be a beautiful innocence in living through our teenage years, a kind of what you don’t know about life yet glow. I remember this phase of growing up myself. It was lovely, a time of now worries and lots of time to be a full on teenager. Not yet in the adult systems of life there was a type of simple freedom in my teenage hood. Though this is not true for all of us it … [Read more...]