Ep. 53 | Barbara Slaine: We want Real and Death is Real - A Doula at the End-Of-Life 2 of 10

Join me for a  fascinating interview with Barbara Slaine.  We dive deep into a topic that is often considered taboo:  death & dying.  Barbara shares her years of experience as an end-of-life doula, guiding individuals and families through this process.  She also touches upon her documentary film project - tracking the impact of training incarcerated and previously incarcerated individuals to care for their fellow inmates as they make their final transition.  
 
Barbara wows us with the resources at her fingertips:

•  New Realities  with Alan Steinfelt on Apple Podcasts.  
• Barbara's documentary film project, tentatively titled A Ripple Effect.  
• Dr. Joseph Sacco, MD, Hospice & Palliative Medicine.  
• Book, Die Wise:  A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson and Dr. Martin Shaw.  
• Florence Walt, the founder of Hospice UK.
• Fleet Maull who runs the National Prison Hospital Association.
• The idea that she should consider writing the book, Death for Dummies.  
• The end-of-life doula course she runs at her center, liphebalancecenter.com.  
• The work of Henry Ferako-Weiss, who is an end-of-life doula and a mentor.
• Book, Dying to be Me, My Journey from Cancer to Near Death to True Healing by Anita Moorjani.  
• The concept of how death teaches us to embrace more being, less doing.  
• Realization of how interacting with death in a real way is currently in the zeitgeist.  Barbara attributes this to the pandemic - a call to many to wake up to nature of reality.  Barbara:  "We want real and death is real."
• Book, How we Live is How we Die by Pema Chodren.  
• The Zen Hospice Caregiving Project in California.  

Find Barbara:  liphebalancecenter.com

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