"Write Your Best Chapter"

When we are faced with the end of our lives, we start fighting for more time. Ideally, this time would be spent doing the things we love to do, or doing the things that we wanted to do. The reality is, at that moment, we are in no shape to do what we have wanted to do. I am giving you the gift of time NOW. In this episode, I will teach you ways to find pockets of time to do what matters most to you most, today. Let's do this. You will love this episode.

Ever since I became a podcaster and a blogger, and also since I moved to Hawaii, I am approached by people wondering what it's like moving and living here. So many questions. I had to do my own search before moving here. Some of what I learned were true, some of it was not. I am joined by the amazing and accomplished Dr. Rupa Wong, also not a native of Hawaii, sharing our pearls about what it's like to create your life here.

In times of COVID, as our grief process has been stunted due to lack of in person services, it is so important to move at your own pace. There is no hurry. You move as you need to move. Slow and steady. The society may want you to be done already. People are uncomfortable being around grieving individuals. Sometimes they feel helpless. It is ok. It is not about them. I am giving us permission to take our sweet time until we are good and ready.

First day of spring. A brand new year. A new beginning. I hope you will take this ancient tradition and honor its practices. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt you. Ask for forgiveness from those whom you have intentionally or unintentionally hurt in the past year. Every year is a new beginning. I wish you love, peace, health and prosperity. Happy New Year: NoRuzetan Pirouz!

All aspects of our lives are opportunities for growth. The sudden loss of a loved one, especially the same age or younger, always feels unsettling. Following many recent losses my colleagues and clients have been sharing with me, I felt like it was a good time to talk about how we should manage our mind during these unprecedented times. There is no urgency, other than that of feeling aware of all that we are and all that we can be.

For the longest time, I went to vacation to get away from my life. When your life is so uncontrollable that you feel like the only way you can find peace is parked somewhere far away, it is time to revisit this thought. I talk about how I would put away my phone in the security box just so that I could shut down the outside chatter. Let's talk about how you can do that without going to Mexico.

The first time I heard about "Death Cafe" on NPR, I thought it was the most brilliant way of normalizing discussions about death and dying. I think that if my podcast is similar to anything, I would have to say it would be like that space. Except that I am the only one talking here. When I learned that a virtual Death Cafe was happening, I had to invite the host to tell us more.

With all the talk about mindfulness and its positive effect on our lives, how do we go about incorporating the practice? As we have been socialized to feel accomplished once we complete a to do list, and judge ourselves when we don't, how do we practice acceptance? How can we decide what matters most so that we can focus on those priorities instead? In this mini-coaching session, I will share with you some of my tools to help you pivot and focus on what can ground you in stormy days of your life no matter what life throws at you.

What if this life is all there is? If you are a non-believer and don't envision an afterlife, how do you grieve and where do you reach out for like minded support? My guest today is a phenomenal activist, mother and grief support leader. When Rebecca Hensler lost her young son, she experienced first hand what it meant to be given the wrong type of support. As a non-believer, she wanted to created a safe support group for all who may need it some day. "Grief Beyond Belief" was created as a meaning making celebration of her son.

What is Therapeutic Presence? Can you just sit there with a patient, without offering any treatment or even medication and yet have a meaningful impact? Turns out the answer is easier than one might think. A 'healer' shares her story of why she was drawn to end of life care. As one might imagine, the story is not always linked to a death story. What if you wanted to provide the best of care for humanity from the very beginning to the very end?