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Hospices Increasingly Invest in Environmental Sustainability

Hospice News

The nonprofit’s other services include personal care, adult day services and grief support. In another example, Ohio-based Hospice of the Western Reserve began its sustainability journey in 2009 by forming an internal team dedicated to creating and implementing better environmental practices.

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Deathwives Founders: Death Doulas Fill End-of-Life Care Gaps, Ease Strain on Hospice Staff

Hospice News

In time, the organization expanded to include the virtual Deathfolx platform, its Deathschool program, and an online grief community. Merelli: I got into doulaship as a birth doula in 2009. Carroll and Merelli founded Deathwives in 2019 to assist families facing the death of a loved one. Deathwives was formed in 2019.

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Inspiration from Marion Woodman

Elaine Mansfield

April 18, 2009. Sometimes you wrote about aging and grief and struggles with health. The hearing issues you shared in 2009 remind me of my challenges now. You hold my hand and say what you said when I doubted my ability to write my first book Leaning into Love: A Spiritual Journey through Grief. with Marion in 2007. “DO

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Love and Loss with A Soul Animal

Elaine Mansfield

Willow came to live with me in 2009 when she was eight weeks old. Gentle Willow, my healing companion through times of deepest grief, was a comfort and a soul friend. She struggled to her feet, stepped forward, and stretched her painful back legs. Her hind knees had ACL surgery when she was young and they stiffened as she aged.

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Lessons and Legacies From Some We Lost in 2022

Solace

But she also understood the weight of grief, losing her husband before her death. Grief is the price we pay for love.” — Queen Elizabeth II. President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Her longevity made her a witness of history and many praised her steady hand through decades of rule.

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Soul Animals

Elaine Mansfield

When I brought her home in 2009, her puppy sweetness brought joy after years of grief, but before she was six months old, she needed surgery on her left knee. She recovers her gait and keeps going, a good lesson for me with imbalance from Meniere’s Disease. Heat and turbulent weather are hard on us. Willow at 6 weeks.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

That’s getting a little off-topic because that’s after death, but I think with what doulas do is reprocessing and helping with some grief we can. In fact, I worked for senior care options payer-provider in Massachusetts, where I am coupled end-of-life care from hospice back in 2009.