Becoming more mindful in our daily life can help us to care for ourselves and to care for others in a more compassionate and healthy way. Join Michelle O'Rourke as she explores these concepts, and learn simple ways to live more mindfully....
Losses and setbacks can come in different forms and for many it can be challenging to cope and navigate how to move forward in our lives. In this session, Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes will talk about and facilitate a discussion on how to deal with these losses and setbacks...
“I don’t know what to do, I don’t know what to say!” Have you ever said these things or felt this way when someone is grieving, in a crisis, suffered a loss or just having a really bad day? Have you ever been avoided because people didn’t know how to support you? Me too!...
Our children have questions about dying, death, and loss, and many of them are living with death-related losses that aren’t being adequately addressed. And, when situated in a global pandemic, it is reasonable to accept that everyone is grieving the loss of something right now, our young people included....
In this talk, Kathy infuses tenderness into a topic that is all too frequently charged with fear, approached with grim stoicism, or avoided at all costs. Using stories and research laced with her unique brand of compassion and humor, Kathy extends an engraved invitation to view death as not a taboo subject - but rather a shared life...
Grief is a normal response to the experience of loss. We grieve when we anticipate the loss of someone, lose or leave a place to live, lose financial or status change, experience ambiguous losses like those of the current pandemic, and when we hear news of the destruction of our planet. While keeping in mind that grief is...
Paula will share with you how she fought back from depression, anxiety and agoraphobia to a new emotional free, productive life. By taking all the tools she learned from many different areas of treatment Paula created a simple 7 step program. As someone who has “been there”, Paula is now sharing her program with you...
Strong evidence points to the benefits of palliative care for patients with chronic serious illness, including improved symptom control and quality of life. While quality palliative care is accessible to many Canadians, not all persons with life limiting illness have access to palliative care...
Grieving is a very individual and personalized experience. It is influenced and shaped, not just by who or what we are grieving, but rather by our very essence of who we are, and how we’ve lived our lives. All that we experience creates within us what is referred to as ‘personal culture’...
In my work with the Windsor Essex Compassion Care Community, I learned from a researcher, Julianne Holt-Lunstad that loneliness can be as bad for our health as smoking 15 cigarettes per day! This can actually equate to 15 years off of a lifespan! (Pomeroy)...