Hospice Booklets
The three booklets listed below deal with the end of life journey. The content of each booklet can be read online here, or scroll to the bottom of the page to learn how to get your own copies.
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Spiritual Matters for the Hospice Journey is a booklet for families and friends dealing with end-of-life issues, spiritual meaning, and help in navigating the emotional journey. It is easy to read and simple in explaining what a family can expect from the hospice chaplain for their loved one.
Spiritual Matters for the Hospice Journey offers practical insight regarding resolving discontent, making peace, and encouragement for spiritual support.
20-page softcover 5.5 x 8.5 digest-size. Contents below:
• The Hospice Chaplain — If you have a loved one entering hospice care, you will have access to a hospice chaplain. The hospice chaplain is part of the interdisciplinary...
• Making Peace — Few of us have actually set out to live our lives as pirates, obsessively searching for rum and treasure while giving no regard for contributing…
• Why Bad Things Happen — When a loved one lays unconscious and dependent on a machine to breathe or a simple drive to the grocery store is interrupted…
• Appointed Time to Die — Most of us have heard it said, “When it’s your turn to go, it’s your turn to go” or “When your number comes up, there’s nothing you can…
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What to Expect When Waiting is a booklet for families and friends dealing with end-of-life issues, healthcare choices, and help in navigating the emotional journey. It is easy to read and simple in explaining what a family can expect when facing the end-of-life of a loved one.
What to Expect When Waiting offers practical insight regarding medical decisions, understanding options, and encouragement for spiritual support.
20-page softcover 5.5 x 8.5 digest-size. Contents below:
• When Someone is Dying — There are signs of dying when a loved-one is struggling with a terminal disease or for whatever reason is at the end of their life. People don’t die…
• CPR, DNR, and Letting Go — It is a very emotionally difficult position to be in when a physician asks the family if they want them to do all they can to keep your loved one…
• When Your World Shatters — As a chaplain at a trauma hospital just miles from the beaches of the upper Gulf Coast, I frequently deal with patients and families who…
• Hope Beyond Death — The immediate shock and despair of a loved one’s passing can leave us feeling hopeless about the future. No matter how much we may…
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The Heartache of Absence is a booklet for those preparing for or going through their own grief journey because of the loss of a loved one. It is easy to read and simple in explaining what one can expect from grieving, how to go through the process with a plan for healthy healing results, and finding ways to cope.
The Heartache of Absence offers practical insight regarding understanding a proper attitude toward death, what to expect from grieving, and strategies to live by as one moves forward with the absence of their loved one.
20-page softcover 5.5 x 8.5 digest-size. Content below:
• Death is Not a Friend — I recently watched a documentary that followed a grief counselor as he gave advice and counsel to people and families facing death…
• Grief is an Ocean — Somewhere on social media I saw a quote that expressed the idea that grief is an ocean. I don’t know where I saw it, who said it or how it…
• As Unique As You — Sitting with families who are hearing the bad news of a loved one’s death was a nearly daily occurrence for me when I worked as a hospital...
• Objectives & Strategies in Grief — In the process of grieving, there is no time frame assigned or one-size fits all approach to assure a healthy grieving process…
Softcover Booklet: Each of the above booklets are 20-pages long and 5.5″ x 8.5″ digest-size. Each booklet is available for a $5.00 donation through PayPal. Submit your mailing address with your donation and title of booklet or visit the Contact page to send me your mailing address with a couple extra dollars for mailing. I will communicate with you by email regarding the mailing process.
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