The Integrative Palliative Podcast

Guided imagery is a powerful tool to use with your patients who have generalized anxiety or are just feeling anxious about getting chemotherapy or having a procedure.

It is easy to learn and every physician, nurse, nurse practitioner, PA, radiation technologist, and every other clinician should have this tool in their toolbox.

In addition, I've recorded a LovingKindness meditation (Metta) that is available for you for free at www.copingsupport.com. Have a listen, because your wellbeing matters too.

Reach out any time,
Dr C
Delia Chiaramonte, MD
www.integrativepalliatve.com

Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself is available here: www.copingcourageously.com 

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Do you know the different between yoga and yoga therapy?

Which one is better for people getting treatment for cancer? How about people with neurologic conditions or those who have had a stroke?

What benefits can patients get from yoga therapy? What are the risks?

Yoga therapy expert Kelli Bethel, PT, DPT, C-IYAT shares her wisdom about all things yoga therapy.

Learn more tools to help your patients manage their pain, anxiety, chemo symptoms, and sleep.

You can reach her at [email protected].

Helping you expand your clinical toolbox so you can maximize the wellbeing of your patients and yourself,

Dr. C
Delia Chiaramonte, MD
www.integrativepalliative.com

Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself is available here: www.copingcourageously.com 

Please review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! And be sure to subscribe!

Sign up to stay connected and learn about upcoming programs:
https://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/IPI-stay-in-touch

I'm thrilled to be listed in Feedspot's top 15 palliative podcasts!
https://blog.feedspot.com/palliative_care_podcasts/

Family members "should" on patients.

Patients "should" on themselves.

And we "should" on patients too.

This week I share eight "shoulds" that we can try to avoid to improve the wellbeing of the families that we care for.

Also, today is book launch day! Check out Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself - I wrote this book for families bit also for clinicians who care for seriously ill people.

Check it out and tell a friend!
Dr. C
Delia Chiaramonte, MD
www.copingcourageously.com

Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself is available here: www.copingcourageously.com 

Please review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! And be sure to subscribe!

Sign up to stay connected and learn about upcoming programs:
https://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/IPI-stay-in-touch

I'm thrilled to be listed in Feedspot's top 15 palliative podcasts!
https://blog.feedspot.com/palliative_care_podcasts/

Acceptance is powerful.

 Many people mistakenly think that acceptance is giving up. They see it as the opposite of fighting.

I see it differently. Instead of being the opposite of fighting, I see acceptance as the opposite of pretending. When you stop pretending you open opportunities for deep wellbeing and connection.

In this episode I read a story from my book Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One's Illness Without Losing Yourself.

You are invited to the virtual book launch party! RSVP is required - go to www.copingcouragesouly.com. I really hope you'll join us.

Dr. Chiaramonte

Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself is available here: www.copingcourageously.com 

Please review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! And be sure to subscribe!

Sign up to stay connected and learn about upcoming programs:
https://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/IPI-stay-in-touch

I'm thrilled to be listed in Feedspot's top 15 palliative podcasts!
https://blog.feedspot.com/palliative_care_podcasts/

It is challenging enough to imagine lending a stranger your car or giving them a large sum of money. Yet, some kind souls donate their precious, living body parts to people that they don't know.

Chaya Lasson, RN is just such a person.

This week she shares her personal journey with living kidney donation. Her story will fascinate and inspire you.

Chaya is happy to chat with anyone interested in learning more about living kidney donation. You can reach her at: [email protected].

She discusses the organization that helped her on the journey to donation. It is called Renewal and can be reached at www.renewal.org.

You don't need to donate a kidney, but I suggest that you consider how you can put good into the world this week.

Thanks for joining me on the journey!
Delia Chiaramonte, MD

Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself is available here: www.copingcourageously.com 

Please review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! And be sure to subscribe!

Sign up to stay connected and learn about upcoming programs:
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I'm thrilled to be listed in Feedspot's top 15 palliative podcasts!
https://blog.feedspot.com/palliative_care_podcasts/

It is our job to help our patients cope courageously.

Whether they have cancer, dementia, age-related decline, ALS or other serious condition it will cause stress for their family that we can help to relieve.

This week you'll get a sneak peak into the techniques that I have put into my book Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One's Illness Without Losing Yourself.

(Release date January 18th, 2023)

If you are here, you are a heart-centered person. I'm glad to be on the journey with you.

Delia Chiaramonte, MD

Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself is available here: www.copingcourageously.com 

Please review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! And be sure to subscribe!

Sign up to stay connected and learn about upcoming programs:
https://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/IPI-stay-in-touch

I'm thrilled to be listed in Feedspot's top 15 palliative podcasts!
https://blog.feedspot.com/palliative_care_podcasts/

My gift to you is permission.

If you are holding on to ideas of how you're supposed to be and generating your own anxiety and stress, this episode is your answer.

For holiday season 2023 I have 5 permissions and 3 invitations for you to help make this season the calm and happy one that you deserve.

I'm glad that we're on the journey together.

Delia Chiaramonte, MD
www.integrativepalliative.com

Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself is available here: www.copingcourageously.com 

Please review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! And be sure to subscribe!

Sign up to stay connected and learn about upcoming programs:
https://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/IPI-stay-in-touch

I'm thrilled to be listed in Feedspot's top 15 palliative podcasts!
https://blog.feedspot.com/palliative_care_podcasts/

Do you use anchoring?

Anchoring is a powerful tool that you can use to help manage stress even when you are out and about or in a meeting with a frustrating boss.

Just like Pavlov's dogs salivated when the bell rang because they connected the bell with yummy meat, you can train your physiology to connect your sense of relaxation with any anchor that you choose. You can use this approach to manage your stress, anxiety, depression, pain, insomnia, and so much more.

Try it out and let me know how it works for you!

Delia Chiaramonte, MD
www.integrativepalliative.com

Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself is available here: www.copingcourageously.com 

Please review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! And be sure to subscribe!

Sign up to stay connected and learn about upcoming programs:
https://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/IPI-stay-in-touch

I'm thrilled to be listed in Feedspot's top 15 palliative podcasts!
https://blog.feedspot.com/palliative_care_podcasts/

Clinician grief: it's real, it's important and we need to talk about it.

Have you heard of secondary grief? Grief shaming?

In this important interview with hospice nurse and grief expert, Helen Bauer, we dive deeply into who experiences grief, how grief is so much more than sadness, and what we should all be doing to manage it.

Learn more about Helen at www.theheartofhospice.com and listen to her podcast called The Heart of Hospice Podcast.

Let's keep learning from and supporting each other,
Delia Chiaramonte, MD
www.integrativepalliative.com 

Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself is available here: www.copingcourageously.com 

Please review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! And be sure to subscribe!

Sign up to stay connected and learn about upcoming programs:
https://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/IPI-stay-in-touch

I'm thrilled to be listed in Feedspot's top 15 palliative podcasts!
https://blog.feedspot.com/palliative_care_podcasts/

Too many patients and too little time.

Most clinicians wish they had more time to spend with each patient and patients generally hate feeling rushed through their medical visits.

How can you practice compassionate medical care when you have to rush from one patient to another?

This week I discuss 8 tips for making a short visit seem longer so it is more satisfying for your patient and more satisfying for you.

What did I miss? Let me know and I'll add them in to a future episode. You can connect with me on the website (www.integrativepalliative.com ) or on LinkedIn.

Help me spread the word about integrative palliative care.

I'm glad to be on the journey with you!
Delia Chiaramonte, MD

P.S.  Join our community of integrative palliative people. We'd love to have you. Sign up here: https://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/IPI-stay-in-touch

Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself is available here: www.copingcourageously.com 

Please review this podcast wherever you listen and forward your favorite episode to a friend! And be sure to subscribe!

Sign up to stay connected and learn about upcoming programs:
https://trainings.integrativepalliative.com/IPI-stay-in-touch

I'm thrilled to be listed in Feedspot's top 15 palliative podcasts!
https://blog.feedspot.com/palliative_care_podcasts/