The moment someones essence, spirit, consciousness, soul, whatever you are comfortable with leaves the room, it is a moment like no other experience. People all experience it differently and there is no predicting how you will feel or react, but likely you will be lost. Not unlike the first moment alone at home with a newborn…
From February, 2015
When Moving Forward is Really Really Hard
For the person selling the family home in their 70s, 80s, or 90s, it represents so much more than a change of residence. And this group has a limited voice and not much say over what happens when adult children step in to be “practical” or “realistic”. It is rather like looking at the folks…
Changing The Conversation
As we navigate the norms, and push against the complacency born of ignorance, exhaustion and isolation, we are slowly forging a new path through end of life issues. We must challenge all of it, the doctors, the funeral homes, Medicare, our families, the popular culture. Our death, and our bodies are ours alone and we…
Dying Should Not Be So Brutal!
I have been speaking and talking about how we as boomers need to take control of our last great rebellion! How we ‘shuffle off our mortal coil’ and show the next generation how to transform from physical to another realm with grace and dignity, is our last great act. No more viewed as fragile empty…
Downsizing vs Aging in Place
Right to Die
Navigating Olderhood 