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Caregivers Support
Death & Dying Resources for Caregivers
This website provides death and dying resources for caregivers. These resources will help anyone who is caring for a terminally ill person or healthcare workers who treat dying persons.
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End of Life Support
Canadian Virtual Hospice
Canadian Virtual Hospice is an interactive network for people dealing with life-threatening illness and loss. You do need to register with them before you go into the web site.
Hard Choices.com
This web site is about the book Hard Choices for Loving People and is meant to provide some guidance through education for professionals, patients, and their families regarding end-of-life decisions. It covers topics like CPR, artificial feeding tubes, hospice, living wills, nursing home placement, ventilators, and dialysis. Other related topics like bioethics, death and dying, and the emotional and spiritual issues surrounding the end-of-life are interwoven into this educational web site.
Healing Environments
A "healing environment" is one that offers sustenance to the soul and gives meaning to experience. It helps those who are suffering transcend their pain by connecting to the universal through the transformative power of beauty and art; and it gives comfort through this connection. Healing Environments is committed to supporting the current movement toward holistic medicine -- toward treating the whole patient: Body, mind, and spirit. They encourage hospitals, hospices, and individuals to nourish patients, families, and caregivers with healing environments.
Hospice Education Institute
This is an independent, non-profit organization that serves the public and health care professionals with information and education about many aspects of caring for the dying and the bereaved. You may call (800)331-1620 with your questions.
Nikki Hospice Foundation For Pets
The Nikki Hospice Foundation for Pets is the first official, non-profit organization of its kind in the nation. It has been founded in response to a need which is becoming ever more prominent in our society. Its main purpose is "to encourage the provision of hospice care for dying pets, so that pet owners who do not wish to choose euthanasia when their animals are about to depart this life or who wish to postpone it can care for them in the home environment--under veterinary supervision and with adequate pain management and/or symptom control."
Peaceful Passages
Peaceful Passages is an organization in New Jersey devoted to helping people die in as natural and holistic way as possible. They help people utilize Complementary Therapies such as massage, healing touch, aroma and music therapies as part of their end-of-life experiences. Through them, you can order a small book called Peaceful Passages that shares sixty short, real life stories about people who have successfully utilized these therapies at the end of their lives.
Samaritan Hospice
Samaritan Hospice was founded in 1980 in New Jersey and is a non-for-profit organization that contributes to the health and well being of the community. It is a leader in hospice, palliative care, grief support, education, advocacy, and other life-enhancing services.
Seattle Chapter of the International Association for Near-Death Studies
This Chapter meets usually on the first Saturday of each month at the Catholic Community Center in Seattle. Anywhere from eighty to one hundred individuals who have experienced near death experiences gather to share their stories and to support one another in coping their expanded sense of reality. You can read many stories about actual NDEs on this web site.
Zen Hospice Project
This is the web site for the Zen Hospice Project. They are inspired by a 2500 year-old tradition, and provide a spectrum of innovative programs including volunteer services, residential care, and trainings that seek to cultivate wisdom and compassion through service.
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Grief Support
Bereavement Publications, Inc.
This is the web site and online catalog for Living With Loss: Hope and Healing for the Body, Mind, and Spirit. This magazine is intended to be a "support group in print," a friend who arrives in the mailbox six times a year. Andrea Gambill founded it in 1987 after years of support group leadership and grief counseling. Having lost her own seventeen-year-old daughter in 1976, Andrea started one of the first support groups of The Compassionate Friends.
Compassionate Friends
The Compassionate Friends is a national organization based in Oakbrook, IL. Their mission is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age. They also provide information to help others be supportive. They are a self-help support organization, and have no religious affiliation. They charge no membership dues or fees.
Crisis, Grief, & Healing
This is a web site to help you understand the different paths to heal from strong emotions. Tom Golden, internationally known psychotherapist, author, and speaker on the topic of healing from loss, shares his insights and books, etc. From his book titles, it seems that he specializes in the masculine aspects of grief.
Dougy Center
Located in Portland, OR, The Dougy Center is the first center in the U.S. to provide peer support groups for grieving children. They have served 14,000 children, teens, and families since 1982, and provide support and training to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children in grief.
EriChad Grief Support
EriChad is another web site that provides resources for bereaved parents.
GROWW
GROWW was founded by widow Judy Divers. Judy made her transition in 1999, but this organization continues to support grief recovery for all bereaved persons.
Healing Hearts for Bereaved Parents
Healing Hearts for Bereaved Parents is an organization to support parents whose children have died. Parents whose children have died as a result of a miscarriage or stillbirth are also welcome.
This Is A War
This web site is dedicated to helping bereaved children recover. It gives a great deal of information on various aspects of grief and loss and has many links you may go to.
WidowNet
WidowNet is an information and self-help resource for and by widows and widowers.
Young Widow.org
Young Widow.org is the original and only interactive website and nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to young widows and widowers.
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Integrative Therapies
Alternatives Gateway
This website, developed by Pete Esquinaldo of Orlando, FL, helps provide you with easy access to Body-Mind-Spirit practitioners and resources. He also has a free three-month trial membership for those interested.
Designed Clinical Nutrition
This is a most innovative group of chiropractors turned nutritionists. They have recently moved to the Puget Sound area. We are very fortunate to have them here.
Matrix Energetics
Richard Bartlett has developed a new method for transformation which comes out of his personal transformation as a chiropractor turned out-of-the-box healer.
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Life Support
Aging With Dignity - Five Wishes
This is the Five Wishes Document web page. This popular document helps you get the care you want, when you need it. It is unique among all other living will and health agent forms because it looks to a person's medical, personal, emotional, and spiritual needs. You are encouraged to look into these five questions now, when you can decipher for yourself what you would desire in the future, then discuss them with your family and physician(s). You can order a copy of this document by going here.
Living Will
Having a will is one of the best ways to protect your family. Make wills online quickly, easily, and affordably.
Sacred Art of Living Center
This is an education and retreat center that encourages people to deepen their spiritual experiences. It also challenges people to transform their life's priorities.
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Meditation Support
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
This is the website for Seattle Insight Meditation Society (SIMS). They are a nonprofit organization devoted to offering the Buddha's teachings on insight and awareness to all who seek them. SIMS was founded by a group of longtime practitioners of the teachings of the Buddha. They intend to create an open and cohesive spiritual community to support the practice of mindfulness in daily life.
Carolyn McManus
Carolyn is a physical therapist who has developed and teaches "mindfulness meditation" through her own experience with back pain.
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"Natural" Funeral Services
Natural Transitions Funeral Guidance
This organization helps families to "direct their own funerals." The mission is to reclaim after-death care for families and communities, empowering them to make choices that are more meaningful, affordable, and environmentally conscious. Their team includes a former hospice worker, an end-of-life caregiver, and a healer and energy worker.
Final Passages
The founder of this company is a minister, reiki master, and death midwife who has pioneered the field of "home funeral guidance." In the past ten years JerriGrace has assisted more than 250 families in Sonoma and other counties in California through their home or family-directed funeral arrangements. She has appeared in USA Today, was interviewed on FOX and CNN Headline News, and is featured in a new PBS documentary called, "A Family Undertaking." JerriGrace is available for workshops and speaking/teaching engagements.
Nancy Jewel Poer
Nancy Jewel Poer is also involved in "Natural" Funeral Services. See her link under "Related Authors".
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Tools for Healing
Chi Machine
This is an energy enchancing machine that helps oxygenate and relax your body. Maria has one and uses it 10 to 20 minutes every day. It's been a great asset to her relaxation and healing. If you're interested in purchasing any of HTE USA's machines or products, please contact Maria (she is a distributor).
The Healing Codes
The most helpful method for me to heal has been by letting go of old belief systems. Take a look at Dr. Alex Loyd's website and see for yourself!
Kangen Water
Kangen Water is "antioxidant water" aka "electrolyzed reduced water" developed in Japan. Drinking Kangen Water helps keep us healthy by neutralizing free radicals in the body. If you're interested in purchasing a machine, contact Maria.
L.E.A.P. (Life Essence Awakening Process)
L.E.A.P. was developed by Jaya Sarada of the Wellbeing Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to "the sacred essence of the heart and spirit."
Reiki
Reiki is a form of "laying on of hands" rediscovered by a Japanese man named Mikao Usui. It was brought to the U.S. through Ms. Takata of Hawaii.
Theta Healing
Vianna Stibal, a medical intuitive, discovered theta Healing in 1995 when she was working on her own healing from leukemia. She has published two books and gives workshops around the world on Theta Healing.
Transformative Health Studies
Maggie Seymour, a teacher, healer, and meditator, discovered her own healing using these psycho-spiritual dynamics of the mind/body connection.
Watsu Massage
Watsu is an increasingly popular form of bodywork/therapy. It involves being cradled in a warm body of water.
Yoga Online Videos, Classes, Courses & Meditation Practices
Yoga enhances work life, relationships, and at the same time, inner peace. Practice yoga the right way with our comprehensive instructions online yoga videos and yoga courses, specially designed for all at Yogaexchange.com
Young Living Essential Oils
Founded by D. Gary Young in 1993, Young Living Essential Oils is world renowned for exceptionally high-quality essential oils, dietary supplements, personal care products, and other unique solutions for healthy lifestyles. If you're interested in purchasing these healing oils, go to the YL website above and use Maria's distributor #: 705841. Contact Maria if you have any questions or concerns.
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