“I don’t think I can do this!” Excerpt from Present Through the End “I don’t think I can do this!” Perhaps this was the first thought that went through your mind when you heard the sad news and you are about to visit for the first time. That’s okay. Most of the time, by simply [...]

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Herbal Remedies for Radiant Health at Every Age and Stage of Life Leslie Korn Answers Our Top 10 Questions About Plant Medicine and Natural Woman Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, is a licensed clinician specializing in mental health nutrition, herbal medicine, and integrative medicine for mental health and the physical symptoms of traumatic stress. Her book, [...]

Guiding Questions Introduction Inspired by decades of experience caring for the dying and years teaching contemplative care around the world, Kirsten DeLeo shares down-to-earth advice and offers short, simple, on-the-spot tools to help you handle your emotions, deal with difficult relationships, talk about spiritual matters, listen fully, and practice self-care. Present Through the End shows [...]

Caring as a Practice of Mindfulness An excerpt from Contemplative Caregiving “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” This pithy teaching from Shunryu Suzuki’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind offers a powerful reminder of the need for flexibility and receptivity in compassionate care.1 Many hospice caregivers will tell [...]

Death A Long Distance Call On a Wednesday morning, sitting in my old blue Volvo in a parking lot after just getting a facial—my cheeks redolent with cream, all pores clean—I called the Cancer Center in Santa Fe, persuaded an oncologist to look up my chart. The oncologist I was assigned to was on vacation, [...]

We have excerpted the chapter “Yoga for Balance” from Yoga for Healthy Aging: A Guide to Lifelong Well-Being by Baxter Bell and Nina Zolotow. This chapter describes balance, how yoga can improve balance, and yoga practices to increase your balance. Click here to read “Yoga for Balance” from Yoga for Healthy Aging. Our friends at Brentwood Yoga in [...]

The following exercise is excerpted from  The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi  by Peter M. Wayne, PhD, and Mark L. Fuerst. A good way to experience the interactions between gentle, pulsing move ­ments, relaxation, imagery, and intention and their potential to alleviate pain is by practicing a simple exercise I developed called "Hand [...]