Author: personalknits

  • A New Nugget

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    Take Learning From When and Where It Comes Yup! Another nugget came to me recently. Confession: I can be quite stubborn to learn concepts that are new or conflict with my beliefs or life experience. This is not always good, and I am realizing that when I can take in learning from someone I don’t…

  • The Good Death, Part One

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    I have spoken before about how I define the Good Death, which for me is having had the important conversations with my family and close friends, working to resolve any outlying conflicts, or forgiving those I need to forgive/ask for forgiveness from folks I have hurt. It also means that I have shared my wishes…

  • Nugget – Celebrate Every Smile

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    A podcast subscriber sent this comment in the title above to my webpage at grimtea.com as a response to Nuggets. This is one of her nuggets. It was a great reminder and I wanted to share it with you, especially as we become involved in more conservations about death and dying. Sometimes I feel like…

  • THANATOLOGY – PASTORAL

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    Regarding Thanatology, we’ve covered several topics already, and I feel this one is a little more important as to how pastoral care is so beneficial to the dying person but also the family members of the dying person and, really, anyone who is bereaved or in grief. Someone who has expertise in pastoral thanatology really…

  • It’s All About the Nuggets-Part Two

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    I wrote a post recently called It’s All About the Nuggets. I coined the phrase based on conversations and teaching moments I have had through the years, using these “nuggets” as a quick-trigger means to motivate myself to take action, or change a thought pattern, or refrain from an activity I no longer wanted to…

  • Thanatology-Psychological

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    If you’ve been following this Thanatology series, you’ve been learning about Thanatology, the science of dying and death. Today we will be looking at the psychological aspects of dying and death, and how folks trained in this field can help others. In researching this subcategory, I learned about people receiving a terminal diagnosis or a…

  • Life. Interrupted by Death

    Life. Interrupted by Death

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    Hello, I am bringing you today what I have titled Life, Interrupted. As I have being recording my podcast episodes and developing my series on Thanatology, death got in the way. I kind of got knocked around a bit in the past couple of weeks but nothing like my friends who lost loved ones in…

  • Thanatology – Musical

    Thanatology – Musical

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    The practice of music-thanatology was founded by Therese Schroeder-Sheker in 1992. She was Academic Dean of The Music-Thanatology School at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula Montana. She used the harp and her voice in what is described as a “prescriptive manner”. This approach of helping the dying “let go” or be at peace, allows the…

  • It’s All About the Nuggets

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    What nuggets of wisdom do you carry with you, to get through a tough spot, spur you on to action, or just to meditate on for inspiration? Nuggets we keep are tools for us to pull out whenever we need them, like a fond memory or mental picture of something that brings us joy. From…

  • Thanatology – Physical/Biological

    Thanatology – Physical/Biological

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    Previously we learned this new word Thanatology, or the science and study of death. We learned that the Greek god Thanatos was the ‘personification of death’. Now many people study thanatology as a part of their career. In my efforts to bite off small pieces of this large topic, my first installment is here: Today,…