Learn how finding the goodness of life can give you hope for our current situation.
In today’s solo episode I share some thoughts about the hopelessness many of us are feeling right now as we deal with unimaginable crisis and loss here on planet Earth. I also talk about how important hope is for our survival, how it is misused at times in medicine (though with good intention) to lure patients into futile treatments, and where terminal patients can find realistic hope. All of this can inform us how to move past our own feelings of hopelessness into a more positive state of HOPE.
This episode includes:
- Facing up to our current challenges
- How I used a ritual to help me through my own sadness
- How Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, represents the perfect time to let go and start with a clean slate
- Why Autumn reminds us of the cycle of life and impermanence
- The difference between “false hope” and “realistic hope”
- How false hope is often used in medical settings
- Why we need to move past our false hopes and embrace realistic hope right now
- Where terminal patients can find realistic hope (and we can too)
- How to find hope in the “goodness” of life
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Sign up here for the Q&A Session with Suzanne O’Brien on end-of-life doulas (September 22 at 4 pm Pacific/7 pm Eastern)
- Vote Forward
- Read the Article: Hope in the Terminally Ill
- Subscribe to this podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Stitcher Radio
- Check out the Series I’ve recorded in the past here
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