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As Eckhart Tolle often says, you have a life. Everything else, your worries, all your experienced sufferings are simply your life's situation. 

How we see our life and our situation can color how we live and experience life. It is sometimes hard to imagine that no matter what, we are the author of our own stories: As a palliative care physician and certified life coach, let me help remind you that if things can go wrong, they can also go right. 

Join me in my podcast as we visit people's lives and stories of how we can make our own life a great one, one chapter at a time. 

Write Your Best Chapter is a podcast about life, death and everything in between

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Feb 27, 2021

The first time I heard about "Death Cafe" on NPR, I thought it was the most brilliant way of normalizing discussions about death and dying. I think that if my podcast is similar to anything, I would have to say it would be like that space. Except that I am the only one talking here. When I learned that a virtual Death...


Feb 19, 2021

With all the talk about mindfulness and its positive effect on our lives, how do we go about incorporating the practice? As we have been socialized to feel accomplished once we complete a to do list, and judge ourselves when we don't, how do we practice acceptance? How can we decide what matters most so that we...


Feb 12, 2021

What if this life is all there is? If you are a non-believer and don't envision an afterlife, how do you grieve and where do you reach out for like minded support? My guest today is a phenomenal activist, mother and grief support leader. When Rebecca Hensler lost her young son, she experienced first hand what it meant...


Feb 5, 2021

What is Therapeutic Presence? Can you just sit there with a patient, without offering any treatment or even medication and yet have a meaningful impact? Turns out the answer is easier than one might think. A 'healer' shares her story of why she was drawn to end of life care. As one might imagine, the story is not...