In this episode of TCN Talks, Lara McKinnis brings together her training in psychotherapy, music therapy, and somatic therapy in a beautiful way.  Chris and Lara discuss what is going on with our hospice and palliative care team members in terms of trauma.  Lara unpacks that we all have these “shadow” parts of us that are underlying and further that we are indoctrinated not to digest and process these parts.  But, if we do process them, then the journey has a positive and powerful influence on us and how we show up in all aspects of our life.  TCN has begun to refer to this as the “Art of showing up.”  How we show up has always been a challenge; however, we continue to learn just how much COVID has exposed all the ways we have not been dealing with the parts of us that we don’t want to see.  This is a great discussion regarding how each of us can go where society and tradition have told us not to go, our emotions and our body.  By exploring that territory, the pain truly can be the doorway to healing. Healing our deeper wounds has the potential to transcend every aspect of our life, far beyond our work as hospice and palliative care professionals.  Join us.

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In this podcast Chris interviews Dr. Rohini Kanniganti furthering two prior podcasts where we discussed what is going on with our healthcare workers out of care and concern for them dealing with the strains the pandemic has brought on. 

Dr. Kanniganti brings her wisdom, presence, and thoughts around compassion, self-compassion, and mindfulness.  Dr. Kanniganti believes these three states of being are being essential to healthcare workers living their cause and purpose, not just now due to the pandemic, but at all times due to the nature of the work in healthcare and especially for hospice and palliative care workers.  Just listening to Dr. Kanniganti has a calming effect on you, the key is where does that come from?  And how do we harness that wisdom for daily presence in our roles?  Hint:  it is not about doing more stuff and it has something to do with institutionalized love.

Host
Chris Comeaux, MLAS, CPA, President / CEO of Teleios Collaborative Network

Guest
Dr. Rohini Kanniganti 

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In this podcast Chris interviews Dr. Elizabeth Burpee, a Hospice and Palliative Medicine who also works in Research with Four Seasons.  We continue to see staff stressed and some even describing what they are experiencing in hospice and palliative care as burnout.  Dr. Burpee was already researching prior to COVID via Project Echo what is occurring in the hospice and palliative care field and through that research sees that Resiliency is the key.  She shares strategies and resources that are making a difference for many in the field.  She also shares how hope and gratitude are key to the path of resiliency.

Host
Chris Comeaux, MLAS, CPA, President / CEO of Teleios Collaborative Network

Guest
Elizabeth K Burpee, MD, Four Seasons Hospice and Palliative Medicine Research & Clinical Physician

RESOURCES:

CAPC
https://www.capc.org/covid-19/emotional-ppe/

ELNEC
https://www.aacnnursing.org/ELNEC/COVID-19

TEND
https://www.tendacademy.ca/

Grief website
https://grief.com/

Tiny Survival Guide
https://traumastewardship.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Survival-Guide-PDF.pdf

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In this podcast Chris Comeaux interviews Dr. John Morris, Pulmonologist and Hospice & Palliative Care physician about the COVID vaccine.  Dr. Morris has conducted several informational webinars for hospice and palliative staff throughout the TCN network.  Here is a common comment we have heard after those webinars, “Staff was concerned and not planning on getting the vaccine and after the webinar by Dr. Morris staff were asking how do I move forward to get the vaccine?”  In this podcast Dr. Morris gives straight forward answers regarding why it is important to get vaccinated.  He also debunks several myths being passed along via social media and the internet.  

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In our initial TCN Talks podcast Chris interviews John Locke.  John is with DHG where he heads up their executive coaching program.  John has unique experience and training in the area of applying learning from how high performance athletes take care of themselves to perform at a higher level.  Surprisingly there is simple applicable wisdom that hospice, palliative care, and serious illness professionals can apply to their daily lives to maintain their edge and live their cause and purpose which is timely, relevant information due to the challenges COVID have brought all of us working in healthcare.

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