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Trans Remembrance Project Provides a Community of Grieving: Online shrine offers commiseration, resources and hope around the world -
Caring for a Dying Loved One? Be Gentle With Yourself.: Dying is unpredictable and messy. Don’t blame yourself if it doesn’t go according to plan -
Terminal Sedation at the End of Life: When a person is dying, sedation is sometimes the only way to ease unbearable suffering
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Tag Archives: Healing Touch
How Does Touch Awareness Improve Caregiving and Healthcare?
An interview with Everflowing director and educator Irene Smith, Part Two
Today SevenPonds speaks with Irene Smith, founder and director of Everflowing, an educational program centered around creating a more supportive environment for hospice patients and their healthcare providers. Smith has three decades of experience as an educator and practitioner, focusing primarily on … Continue reading
Physical Intimacy and the Dying
Is Touching Taboo?
Join SevenPonds each month as Tani Bahti, RN, CT, CHPN, offers practical on-hand guidance to demystify the dying process. As an RN since 1976, Tani has been working to empower families and healthcare professionals to have the best end-of-life experience possible both through education and the … Continue reading
The Healing Power of Hugs
How a simple hug can help us through the grieving process
In a recent blog post, writer Suzanne Boles tells the story of how she grew to understand the healing power of a hug. A hug, she explains, is something so deceptively simple that we may think to overlook its power. … Continue reading
