Category Archives: End of Life Care

What’s a Death Midwife? Inside the Alternative Death Care Movement by Jennifer Luxton

Posted on August 18, 2015 by webmaven

Excellent,  informative article – required reading! What’s a Death Midwife? Inside the Alternative Death Care Movement by Jennifer Luxton — YES! Magazine.

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Caregiver Revolution – 2 reviews

Posted on April 26, 2015 by webmaven

We just came across two reviews of our book and would like to make them available to visitors to our site. From Hospice Care, reviewed by Roni Fuller: Caregiver Revolution: 5 Steps to Enlightened Caregiving From New Perspectives, reviewed by … Continue reading →

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What it means to “hold space” for people and the Labyrinth Reader’s Mindset

Posted on March 14, 2015 by webmaven

“What does it mean to hold space for someone else? It means that we are willing to walk alongside another person in whatever journey they’re on without judging them, making them feel inadequate, trying to fix them, or trying to impact the … Continue reading →

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Evans-Wentz translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Posted on December 15, 2014 by webmaven

The Tibetan Book of the Dead – original translation – online and free access. A gem. This text and the instructions about doing the readings of it are the basis of the Labyrinth Readers Society. We have just updated things a … Continue reading →

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Two Tibetan Texts about the Bardo, Death, and Dying

Posted on October 14, 2014 by webmaven

A Review of two Tibetan texts; The Bardo Guidebook, by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and Training the Mind in the Great Way by Gyalwa Gendun Druppa, the First Dalai Lama. Both of these books are based on teachings which were passed … Continue reading →

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To the dying, spiritual caregivers can be godsend

Posted on July 29, 2014 by webmaven

To the dying, spiritual caregivers can be godsend  A good article, and  so very nice to see the word godsend in print…  

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