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The Traveler's Guide to Life
This podcast, hosted by Hospice of St. Lawrence Valley, encourages conversations about topics most people avoid. The short conversations cover everything from end-of-life planning, palliative care, hospice care, death, dying, and grief. Our hope is that by talking about these things more everyone will be able to face them with a little more courage, compassion, and maybe even a laugh or two.
It's a journey we're all on. Let's talk about it!
The Traveler's Guide to Life
Latest Episodes
Waving Goodbye
Today’s episode has us exploring the idea of saying goodbye to those on their end-of-life journey. Waving goodbye to someone at end-of-life can be incredibly hard but having a bit of a game plan before it gets to that point can be h...
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The End of the Palliative Care Journey
On today’s episode we’re focusing on the end of the palliative care journey for someone, which as we’ve learned can start far before hospice care would be appropriate and people can be on for years. Palliative care can help support ...
Feelings Along the Way
Today, we’re exploring our feelings along the way, particularly near end of life. Something you really don’t hear people discussing a whole lot.Talking about death generally makes people uncomfortable, especially in our society. But some...
Loving Someone on a Palliative Care Journey
Today, we’ll be discussing loving someone who is on a palliative care journey. It’s really dynamic, isn’t it? I imagine it’s a relief seeing someone you care about receiving more care that they might’ve really needed.For sure. Especially...