How to Stay Emotionally Steady While Caring for Patients With Terminal Illness
Because caring deeply should not cost you your sanity. Caring for patients with terminal illnesses is meaningful, sacred work. It is also emotionally heavy, unpredictable, and relentless if you are not intentional about protecting yourself. If you have ever driven home in silence, cried in the shower, or felt strangely numb after a long stretch of caregiving, you are not broken. You are human. The goal is not to stop feeling. The goal is to stay grounded enough that the weigh
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Hospice care, when talking about death helps to live with intention.
Most of us move through life believing death is something that happens to everyone else. Not us. Not yet. And if the moment ever comes, we will manage it somehow, staying strong and avoiding suffering at all costs. How comfortable are we, really, talking about end-of-life care before we are forced to? Then reality arrives, often suddenly. Death touches us directly or reaches someone we love, and we are forced to face decisions we never wanted to make. We have to talk about
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