The Hospice Chaplaincy Show with Saul Ebema

She received the Canadian Association of Teacher Education (2021) thesis and dissertation award for her work’s contribution to teacher education. Using her skills and expertise for service, she created and led numerous Grief and Writing Through Grief workshops for educators and bereavement support centers across North America. Apart from being an educator, she is a writer at heart and has released...

His research, advocacy, and consultation have resulted in the development of first- time music therapy programs in hospices throughout the nation, thereby creating many new music therapy positions. He is the author of the text, Hospice and Palliative Care Music Therapy: A Guide to Program Development and Clinical Care, and his research has been published in a wide variety of scholarly journals. He...

She has published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine , JAMA , Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management . Her research has been covered by media outlets including The New York Times , The Washington Post , Reuters , and NPR . Prior to pursuing her PhD in public policy from the Sanford Schoo...

Cheryl’s entrepreneurial spirit flourished in photography, modeling and fashion. She launched a successful international bridal line, Christopher and LaLou. Cheryl, along with her husband, has always been involved in community and ministry. Along with others, she brought Young Life to Southeast Texas and launched a bible study for unchurched women called Wellspring. Life and family forever changed...

Jean has extensive experience counseling individuals, couples, and families through issues of loss, grief, chronic pain and disease, trauma, anxiety, stress, and depression, communication and relationship problems, and transitional phases of life. Jean had been a Hospice nurse for years in patients' homes. She feels especially grateful for the blessed opportunity to have served those special patie...

Marcus has authored four books and is currently at work on a fifth. He holds a B.S. in sociology from Missouri State University and a M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University in the city of New York.    In 2017, Marcus was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame where he tea...

In Today's episode, Saul talks with Holly Vossel a reporter for hospice news about improving access and quality of hospice care for LGBTQ+

In this week's episode, Saul talks with Chaplain Kevin Jordan on his life's journey, calling and ministry.

Jose is the co-founder of Inner Immersion, LLC, an organization teaching a breakthrough mindfulness modality. Together with his wife and partner, Anastasia Hernandez, he has recently co-founded Immersive Arts, a collaborative of art, design and medical professionals working with hospitals and other healthcare organizations to offer calming, comforting and healing experiences for patients, families...

Education CMHIMP Certified mental health integrative medicine provider  Psy. D., Clinical Psychology, Ryokan College, Los Angeles, CA M.A., Clinical Psychology, Ryokan College, Los Angeles, CA B.A., Studio Art, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Phi Beta Kappa 

Embracing Life After Loss shows readers how to smile through the difficult times - how to take a break from the pain of your loss and find joy in life again. This book is a steadfast compass that offers hope and resilience to anyone trying to navigate through dark times. Here is the link to the BOOK

After years of caring for people with serious illness as a physician, Jennifer’s husband, Bob Lehmberg, was diagnosed with a stage IV, metastatic cancer. But caregiving for the man who had made a 40-year career of caregiving as a physician was not easy. When Jennifer’s husband was diagnosed and later after he died, she turned to what had brought her comfort for years—art journaling. She documented...

Paul’s Publications That’s great! You can tell us how you are feeling’ – Mark, a recently severely physically disabled 11-year-old boy with a brain tumor in G. Fitchett and S. Nolan (eds), Case Studies in spiritual care.  (with Liz Bryson and Sally Nash).   JKP, 2018 Chapter Holding the whispers in the dark in Skills for children’s work SCM  2019. What do pediatric chaplains do? Developing a taxon...

Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she served as Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine. She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying (HarperOne, 2020), a popular press book on the preparation for death. Books 1.     The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom. 2.     Dying in the Twenty-Firs...

She published a collection of essays, Violation , in 2015. Her incredible work has appeared in Harper’s, Antioch Review, Conjunctions, Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, and Tricycle, among other journals. Tisdale also teaches at Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland, Oregon.

Alexandra has taught for California Poets in the Schools, Stillpoint Center for Spiritual Direction, Motherless Daughters of the San Gabriel Valley, and for a number of churches, community centers, and other organizations. She has had poetry and prose published in Ruminate, Gyroscope Review, Pirene's Fountain, Selfish Magazine, Presence Journal, Poets Reading the News , and others. Alexandra recei...

Terence Youk began work in film and television production in1986, first as a composer and later writing, producing, directing, and editing independent documentaries, crafting promotional media and producing news spots for a variety of broadcast clients. Under the auspices of the production company, Brook Hollow Productions, Inc., he has collaborated with carefully selected creative and technical a...

In this interview, Cathy Siebold who has witnessed firsthand the evolution of hospice care since its modern incarnation in the 1960s, presents a balanced and objective analysis of the movement’s accomplishments and failings. You can also read more about that in her book “The Hospice Movement: Easing Death’s Pains.”  She uses social movement theory to frame her discussion. Siebold traces the bell c...

Paul is the Chaplaincy manager and Spiritual Care Lead at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospit al in England. He is co-founder of the Paediatric Chaplaincy Network , Centre for Paediatric Spiritual Care and Convenor of the Grove Youth Series . Here’s a link for the videos of the books narrated by Bear Grylls.  https://paediatric-chaplaincy-network.org/resources/pcn-videos/

She is ordained and ecclesiastically endorsed by the Assemblies of God. Kimberly graduated with a Master of Divinity degree from Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Missouri. Prior to graduate school, Kimberly received her Bachelor of Science in Religion from Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia. Before joining Lighthouse, Kimberly completed her Clinical Pastoral Education at...

On October 8th, it will be 4 years since Elly Sheykhet’s daughter Alina was killed by her ex-boyfriend, Saul and Joe spoke with Elly Sheykhet to see how she is coping and continuing to keep Alina’s memory alive. Alina Sheykhet was a student at the University of Pittsburgh and was killed by Matthew Darby at her off-campus apartment Oct. 8, 2017. She was 20 years old. Darby was sentenced to life in...

Becoming a hospice nurse opened her eyes and changed how she saw her world. She discusses some of the wonderful people she cared for until they passed, and the lessons she learned about life through death. https://www.thehospiceheart.net

You can find a list of Neumann's writings here

Saul Ebema : Florence Wald received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physiology and sociology from Mount Holyoke College in 1938 and immediately enrolled in the 30-month nursing program at Yale University. However, by the time Florence went to Yale University School of Nursing, there was beginning to be a shift in philosophy of care where the primary focus was on the disease, and not on the patient. T...

Saul Ebema : In Latin, the word hospice means to host a guest or stranger; Florence Wald, centered her life on hosting a dignified end of life process that honored the patient’s personhood. Her ideas around death and dying led to the formation of the first modern hospice in the United States in 1974. Because of her, there are thousands of hospice programs around the country- serving millions of pa...