Health Care
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Days 29-33 – Symbols of Love
Symbology impacts caregiving. Joseph Campbell defined a symbol as “an energy evoking and directing agent.” Hospitals & hospices signal anxiety. The right symbols help Compassion defeat Fear opening the door to healing. Continue reading
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Days 272-276 – Where the Temple Begins
There are hundreds of lessons that can be gleaned from watching geese in flight. Yet, the most important appears in three lines from Mary Oliver, “There are things you can’t reach. But/you can reach out to them, and all day… Continue reading
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Days 194-198 – Sensitivity Plants: Releasing Old Pain
Sensitivity plants release leaves insulted by human touch. Then they grow new ones. Can we grow new strength by releasing the weight of old insults. Is it worth trying? Continue reading
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Days 139-143 – America’s Newest Healing Hospital – Bingham Memorial
Few hospitals deliver healing as well as curing. Bingham Memorial Hospital has recently become Healing Hospital Certified as a place that offers both. Continue reading
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Days 30-34 – Who Should Lead Caregivers?
“The difference between the right & wrong leader is the difference between sunshine & gloom. Leadership incompetency is a hidden health care tragedy. Nurses & physicians who achieved medical certifications were never tested for their leadership skills. Caregivers & patients… Continue reading
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Days 353-357 – The Gifts of Canine Caregivers
We yearn for unconditional love. Our judgement-free pets offer that. Patients often apologize for their appearance. Canine caregivers require no apology. Continue reading
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Days 318-323 – “The Divine Blueprint”
The more variegated & unusual our soul’s blueprint, the more courage it takes to live it. And the more dazzling the result if that courage & that destiny are embraced. Continue reading
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Days 310-315 – The Body Electric or the Electric Body?
We can argue our uniqueness. Still, the “electric body” could, within this century, so threaten our humanity that we may ask: Where is our soul? Continue reading
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Days 303-307 – Slow
Speed tramples compassion, destroys Radical Loving Care & causes spiritual blindness. Race through your days & you will miss the world’s beauty. All gifts hide inside Slow. Continue reading
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Days 264-268 The Rhythm of the Soul
One day the legendary dancer Isadora Duncan (1878-1927) said, “…now I would no longer like to dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.” She understood that it is in our own best rhythms that we find Love’s embrace. Continue reading
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