Category Archives: Professional Advice

Poetry Therapy: Medicine for the Soul

Ingrid Tegner explains how poetry therapy can enhance well-being and resilience
Posted on October 12, 2021 by Rachel Jones (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

Ingrid Tegner has been offering poetry therapy, or training and mentoring poetry facilitators, for several decades. After completing a two-year training at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. and obtaining a Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland, … Continue reading →

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End-of-Life Options and the Law: Understanding VSED vs MAID

An interview with law professor and bioethicist Dr. Thaddeus Pope
Posted on September 14, 2021 by Betsy Arant (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

Dr. Thaddeus Pope is a law professor and bioethicist whose work focuses on end-of-life options and patient rights. He teaches at Mitchell Hamline University’s Health Law Institute and received a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2020 to research Canadian and American … Continue reading →

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How Dance Can Help People With Functional Limitations Become Their Best Selves

Dance for PD (Parkinson's disease) connects professional dancers with those living with PD to help enhance their mobility and their lives
Posted on August 24, 2021 by Celeste Willis (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

In 2001, the Mark Morris Dance Group opened a new purpose-based building in Brooklyn, New York. The company wanted to serve their immediate community, and they did that through Dance for PD, a program that teaches dance to those affected … Continue reading →

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Cremation’s Going Digital

A former ad exec is looking to disrupt the traditional cremation process by making cremation and remains delivery direct to consumer
Posted on July 14, 2021 by Daniel Yarnall (Blog writer, Daniel Yarnall)

Cremation is seeing a digital transformation behind the imagination of a former New York ad exec. J.G. Sandom spent almost 40 years in the advertising business before he started his latest venture, Cremstar, in 2014. He founded one of the … Continue reading →

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DIY Body Transport by Vehicle: What You Can (and Can’t) Do

Jim Bates of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of North Texas explains the ins and outs — and occasional mishaps — that come with moving dead bodies
Posted on June 23, 2021 by Rachel Jones (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

  Six years ago, Jim Bates and his brother drove their father’s body 355 miles from Arlington, Texas, to Tulia, Texas, where he was from, to bury him alongside his wife. As director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of North … Continue reading →

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What Does It Mean to Die Well?

Bioethicist Dr. Lydia Dugdale reflects on preparing ourselves for the end of life
Posted on May 29, 2021 by Betsy Arant (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

In her book “The Lost Art of Dying,” bioethicist Dr. Lydia Dugdale explores the ways in which humans have prepared for death throughout history, and how we might apply that wisdom to the end-of-life experience today. Dugdale is a practicing … Continue reading →

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