Category: Podcast
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Episode 19: One on one with Chelsea Hanson- Author of the new book “The Sudden Loss Survival Guide: 7 Essential Practices to Heal Grief
In this week’s episode, our host Dr. Saul Ebema talks one on with Chelsea Hanson. Chelsea is a nationally recognized grief educator and founder of With Sympathy Gifts and Keepsakes, which is an online memorial gift store and grief support center. Hanson found her true purpose in grief support and legacy work and graduated from…
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Episode 18: Interview with Dr. Kenneth Doka
In Today’s episode, the hosts of “The Hospice Chaplaincy Show” talk remotely with Dr. Kenneth Doka. Dr. Doka is a Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle and Senior Consultant to the Hospice Foundation of America. He is the author of Grief is a Journey: Finding Your Path through Loss, as…
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Episode 17: Award-winning journalist and best selling author Katy Butler’s Interview on the impermanence of human existence and the role of rituals
The Hospice Chaplaincy Show hosts Saul Ebema and Joe Newton are joined remotely in the studio by the legendary author, public speaker and journalist Katy Butler. She has written two groundbreaking books about the end of life. Her first book, Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, is a national…
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Episode 16: Kathy O’Donoghue, Petra Van De Water and Claire Gray On the Art of Presence, Self-Care and Holistic Practices.
Due to the pandemic, the Hospice Chaplaincy Show hosts Joe Newton and Saul Ebema remotely interview our guests, Rev. Kathy O’Donoghue who works as the chaplain at Norwell VNA and Hospice in Massachusetts, Rev. Petra Van De Water who works as the Spiritual care counselor at Pathways Home Health and Hospice in California and Dr.…
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Episode 15: Curtis Baxter, Marie Conlin and Don Dahlheimer on Hospital Ministry during COVID-19
One of the hardest things about serious cases of COVID-19 is that people end up in the hospital in isolation and unable to be close to their loved ones. As the death toll mounts in the United States, hospital chaplains have become a much needed source of hope and solace. And some are supporting hospital…
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Episode 14: C. James Parker: A journey Towards Self-Compassion
On today’s episode, the hosts of the Hospice Chaplaincy Show, Joe Newton and Saul Ebema sit down to talk with C. James Parker. C. James Parker is the lead Chaplain with Palladium Hospice and Palliative Care. In February, he published an article with the Journal of Healthcare Chaplaincy entitled “Self-compassion and health care chaplaincy: the…
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Episode 13: Jen Conley on Signature songs and the healing magic of Music
On today’s episode, the hosts of the Hospice Chaplaincy Show Joe Newton and Saul Ebema are joined by Jen Conley. Jen has been a music therapist and music instructor for over 30 years. She is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and singer-songwriter who readily moves between harp, piano, violin, guitar, and ukulele. She has three professionally recorded…
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Episode 12: Jim Benuska on Funeral Home practice and celebrations of life during the pandemic
Jim Benuska works as a funeral home director at Tezak Funeral Home in Joliet, IL. He joins the Hospice Chaplaincy hosts to talk about funeral home practice during COVID-19. With the COVID-19 outbreak across the United States, funeral directors face challenging times as visitations, funerals and burial services are restricted. In just the past month,…
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Episode 11: Allison Nichols on COVID-19 and Hospital Emergency Room Social work
Allison is a licensed Medical Social Worker currently working in the emergency room of a major hospital in Chicago. She sheds some light on the impact of COVID-19 on her practice. The lack of widespread screening means the coronavirus may well be present in countless hospital wards without anyone realizing it. Accordingly, many emergency-room workers…
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Episode 9: Cassandra Brown On COVID-19, Faith and Self-Care
About a month ago, the Hospice Chaplaincy Show booked Cassandra Brown to talk about compassion fatigue in healthcare. Since that time, a lot has happened and the world is dealing with a pandemic no one has seen before. On today’s episode, Cassandra Brown talks about her experience with COVID-19 after her husband Nic became the…
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