how can we be truly compassionate if we have not explored our own responses to the very things we wish we could run away from?

What happens as dementia robs those we love of language?

Ultimately, with this training we bring death and dying back to its natural place in life and living. We see ourselves as part of Nature and supported by Nature, in life and after death. Students have included hospice nurses, therapists, healers, people caring for loved ones at home, funeral directors and people wishing to enter the growing field of end-of-life doulas and death midwifery.

I explore things left unexplored and the beauty and sadness of the things we discover only after we lose someone we love.

A few days ago, someone asked me what advice I would give to someone who was about to lose someone. Here are ten suggestions I have based on my own experiences of being with people at the end of life.

How writing a book of guidance for wishes as the end of life draws near, can actually be an inspirational manual for living.

A beautiful thing happened on the weekend and I’d love to share it with you because it was just so magical. Sometimes the beauty of mystery appears when we least expect it.

As a society our reluctance to confront death and dying leads to an unconscious phobia about discussing the things that can bring comfort when the end comes. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

I talk with the renowned writer, therapist, musician and former monk Thomas Moore about caring for the soul at the end of life.