I write to parse this life & to daily appreciate it...
Everything changes: I married in Aug 2019...to my partner of a decade plus. This is my pre-COVID hair. Like I said everything changes...
And it has been a long journey back to center...my center.
'I live in Oakland and work in San Francisco for a hospice company, which helps me do the best work I am capable of each day. It is a good fit and isn't that for what we are all searching?
Because we bless from the overflow, my life seeks to be a tapestry of self sustainability and support of others. I walk Lake Merritt (& around other bodies of water) for exercise because it relaxes my mind. I also love a hike in the Redwoods. I bake pies, apple cake, & make killer candied orange peel treats to honor my dead grandmother and my own tummy. I am married to a good and lovely man; we live in an 1877 Victorian, whose painted colors might temporarily blind the unprepared. I also care for two increasingly elderly cats... and my heart in doing so.
I have grown a good life from the ashes...several times, which I see and am grateful for ... unceasingly.
I came to be an Interfaith hospice chaplain because of the love and the difficult gifts I found at bedside when walking with my own mother on an eleven year decline into dementia. There, I fell in love with caregivers because I was offered support on the difficult (and perhaps impossible) path of taking care of a loved one.
Impossible...yet caregivers seem to do the impossible each day...because we must.
My (diploma'ed & lived) education as a creative Landscape Architect & practical business woman taught me to design with living systems. Those understandings frame my support at bedside about the nature of love and fear—as a dynamic process within the seasons of renewal.
From this practical and sustainable place, I offer the gifts and practice of resilience.
'I live in Oakland and work in San Francisco for a hospice company, which helps me do the best work I am capable of each day. It is a good fit and isn't that for what we are all searching?
Because we bless from the overflow, my life seeks to be a tapestry of self sustainability and support of others. I walk Lake Merritt (& around other bodies of water) for exercise because it relaxes my mind. I also love a hike in the Redwoods. I bake pies, apple cake, & make killer candied orange peel treats to honor my dead grandmother and my own tummy. I am married to a good and lovely man; we live in an 1877 Victorian, whose painted colors might temporarily blind the unprepared. I also care for two increasingly elderly cats... and my heart in doing so.
I have grown a good life from the ashes...several times, which I see and am grateful for ... unceasingly.
I came to be an Interfaith hospice chaplain because of the love and the difficult gifts I found at bedside when walking with my own mother on an eleven year decline into dementia. There, I fell in love with caregivers because I was offered support on the difficult (and perhaps impossible) path of taking care of a loved one.
Impossible...yet caregivers seem to do the impossible each day...because we must.
My (diploma'ed & lived) education as a creative Landscape Architect & practical business woman taught me to design with living systems. Those understandings frame my support at bedside about the nature of love and fear—as a dynamic process within the seasons of renewal.
From this practical and sustainable place, I offer the gifts and practice of resilience.
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My support is for all caregivers–both the pros & the sons and daughters–who are improvising survival on the front lines of illness and love.
Thank you for listening. Eleesabeth |
Pema Chodran says something like the more we familiarize ourselves with annihilation, the better to know the eternal inside us. Hair counts, right?
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Resilience for Caregivers (& my book site)
Visit my author website for family caregiver support : www.emhager.com
- More about my books, & Audible books
- An Online & Self-Moving Resiliency Workshop, and
- More of my efforts in this world.
Hospice & Healthcare Bereavement Mailings
I support hospice & healthcare companies to get smarter about bereavement support:
Want better bereavement? Or more efficiency for your MCoP deficiencies?
Upgrade & update your bereavement mailings with the Garden of Change® Hospice Bereavement Mailing Program: www.GardenofChange.org
Want better bereavement? Or more efficiency for your MCoP deficiencies?
Upgrade & update your bereavement mailings with the Garden of Change® Hospice Bereavement Mailing Program: www.GardenofChange.org
- A body, mind, spirit approach
- Grief as a natural and normal process
- Leveraging customized, professional mailings as good 24/7 support and win-win marketing