End-of-Life University Podcast

Ep. 243 Grief Work for Healthcare Providers with Amy Wright Glenn and Nicole Heidbreder

Learn about a course to help healthcare providers heal the pain of grief and why it’s important right now.

My two guests this week both share a passion for the full circle of life from birth to death. Amy Wright Glenn is a birth doula, hospital chaplain, author, and founder of The Institute for the Study of Birth, Death and Breath. Nicole Heidbreder is a labor and delivery and hospice nurse who teaches workshops for both birth doulas and end-of-life doulas. We will discuss the overwhelming grief affecting healthcare workers, particularly now in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and the course Amy and Nicole have created to help providers heal from multiple losses and trauma.

Learn more about Amy’s work: www.birthbreathanddeath.com

Learn more about Nicole’s work: www.gracefulfusion.com

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This episode includes:

• The connection between birth and death
• Why grief work is important for healthcare providers
• Why grief is largely a neglected subject in the training of healthcare providers
• How the COVID-19 pandemic is compounding grief for medical workers right now
• Practices that may be helpful for healthcare providers in the moment
• What we can learn from the isolation and boundaries that COVID-19 is making essential in our society
• What the online course Grief Work for Healthcare Providers consists of and how to join

Links mentioned in this episode:

• FREE Course on Advance Directives here
• Observe the Ninth
• Vigil for Ailing Loved Ones When We Can’t Be Together – podcast
• Amy’s Institute for the Study of Birth, Death and Breath website
• Nicole’s Graceful Fusion website
• Grief Work for Healthcare Providers Course
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Bonus 6: Love Over Fear – Stories for Precarious Times

Welcome to this weekly bonus series of brief stories designed to touch your heart and offer you comfort, joy, laughter, and inspiration as we face uncertain times together! Remember always to choose LOVE over fear!

Story 6: Waiting for the Sun

Featured Verse:

by Rainer Maria Rilke

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

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