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Nugget – Celebrate Every Smile
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…
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THANATOLOGY – PASTORAL
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…
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It’s All About the Nuggets-Part Two
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…
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Thanatology-Psychological
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…
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Life. Interrupted by Death
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…
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Thanatology – Musical
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…
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It’s All About the Nuggets
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…
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Thanatology – Physical/Biological
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,…
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Thanatolo–what??
Over the next few weeks we will learn about thanatology, or the study and science of dying and death. Until I began researching career options to work with dying people, I had not heard of this term. Webster defines thanatology as the description or study of the phenomena of death and of psychological mechanisms for…
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A Tribute to Tux the Kitty and a Steel Magnolias Experience
I would like to say a few words about Tux the Kittycat but, first, I would like to talk to you about my Steel Magnolias Experience. If you’re familiar with the movie, it’s about women who come together from different walks of life. They spend time in the salon, talking to one another, visiting with…