How to Interpret and Shape Grief Dreams

Find connection and community through digital preservation and memorialization
People are more frequently choosing cremation over burial and in doing so, raises the question of memorialization. Digital memorials are the current answer to how to keep our memory alive without a gravesite to visit. The available options seem only to be limited by our imagination and the current technology available.

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Our Sponsor: Tree of Life Memorials and Digital & Stone
• 00:20 – Intro
• 03:52 – John Green’s Paper Towns
• 09:18 – Recipe of the Week: Southern Fried Cabbage
• 11:02 – Interview: Digital Memorials
• 44:51 – Outro

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Indigenous Americans have higher rates of cancer, dementia, and diabetes compared to other US populations. How is this related to their historical experiences? We talk about an understandable distrust of the healthcare system and how it continues to impact tribes. https://bit.ly/49zPMy2

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Our Sponsor: Tree of Life Memorials and Digital & Stone
• 00:20 – Intro
• 04:50 – Recipe of the Week: Pawpaw Cookies
• 08:19 – Exploring Native American Health Disparities
• 25:16 – Interview: Dr. Jeanna Ford on COVID impacts for tribes
• 46:05 – Outro

#nativeamerican #indigenous #tribalcustoms #healthcaredisparities #everyonedies #deathpositive #palliativecare #everydayisagift #grief #pawpaw #genocide #healthcaredisparities #historicaltrauma #restitution #COVID #indianschools 

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Learn all about stomach cancer treatment, symptom management, and end-stage disease.

In Part 1 we talked about risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, staging, and survival estimates. This week for Part 2 of our discussion we review treatment options, symptom management, end-stage disease, and how you can support someone with stomach cancer.

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Our Sponsor: Tree of Life Memorials and Digital & Stone
• 00:20 – Intro
• 02:18 – How to Lower Your Risk for Stomach Cancer
• 09:50 – Recipe of the Week: Popcorn Balls
• 12:39 – Stomach Cancer Treatment
• 21:01 – Stomach Cancer Symptom Management
• 33:14 – End-Stage Stomach Cancer
• 41:49 – How to Support Someone with Stomach Cancer
• 50:24 – Greg’s Journal: The Loneliness of Caring for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease
• 54:00- Outro

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 Learn all about stomach cancer risk factors, symptoms & diagnosis

Toby Keith died this month, 28 months after his stomach cancer diagnosis. Stomach cancer is the 5th most common cancer in the world, and anyone can get it. This is part one of a two-part review where we talk about risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, staging, and survival estimates. We also celebrate the life and poetry of Toby Keith.

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Our Sponsor: Tree of Life Memorials and Digital & Stone
•  00:20 – Intro
•  05:59 - Remembering Toby Keith
•  17:16 - How to make Toby's Fried Bologna Sandwich
•  18:19 - All About Stomach Cancer, Part 1: risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, staging, and survival estimates
•  47:21 - Don't Let the Old Man In
•  52:47 - Outro

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Learn about the hidden, cumulative effects of tackle football on the brain, especially for children, and how you can minimize the risk.

Playing tackle football as a child can impact health and quality of life as an adult. Simply put, lifestyle impacts health. So, what do you do when your child brings home the permission form to play football when every year there are new studies documenting the negative long-term effects linking football and brain disease? This week’s show focus can help you answer this question and help you protect your child’s developing brain

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Our Sponsor: Tree of Life Memorials and Digital & Stone
• 00:20 – Intro
• 04:23 – Honoring our Fallen Soldiers
• 05:53 – Super Bowl
• 07:09 – Recipe of the Week: Pig Candy
• 11:09 – Traumatic Brain Encephalitis
• 35:56 – Funeral Theater: “Concussion”
• 44:20 – Outro

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How do I help a Native American friend who is sick or grieving?

It may be awkward when someone has a different culture to know what to do. Each tribe, person and family can be different. Dr. Jeanna Ford joins us again to talk about her experiences in her culture and as a medical professional and to give us advice and help to understand. This is especially important for anyone in a healthcare profession or caregiving role.

We celebrate the role of family with fry bread, a favorite food that is made and eaten together and its history.  We finish off with a beautiful essay about the sacred connection with the sun.

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Our Sponsor: Tree of Life Memorials and Digital & Stone
• 00:20 – Intro
• 03:01 – Recipe of the Week: Indian Taco
• 03:36 – The History of Indian Fry Bread
• 08:32 – Marianne’s Powwow Experiences
• 12:27 – Oklahoma in the Oil Boom Era
• 20:05 – Guest Dr. Jeanna Ford on Native American Families
• 30:21 – A Sacred Connection to the Sun, by Joy Harjo
• 33:40 – Outro

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Does choosing hospice mean the end? President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn courageously allowed us to see their frailty and openly shared their journey near the end of life, including decisions for hospice so they could spend as much time as possible together. The Carters have shown us hospice is about holding hands, eating favorite foods, and living your best life, even while dying.

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter died on November 19, 2023, two days after the Carter Center announced she would be entering hospice with a diagnosis of end stage dementia. The Carters demonstrate that hospice support can last a couple of days, or in the case of Mr. Carter, 11 months and still counting. This week we explore the lessons we can learn from the Carter family regarding aging, illness, and loving.

In this Episode:

• 02:16 – Recipe: Rosalyn Carter’s Cheese Ring
• 02:38 – Rosalyn Carter’s Advocacy for Caregivers
• 06:51 – Jimmy Carter’s Hospice Decision
• 08:59 – How Some Patients Live Longer on Hospice
• 11:09 – The Realities of Hospice…is Home the Best Place to Die for Everyone?
• 18:07 – How the Carters Modeled How to Die
• 24:59 – Outro

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While each Native American Tribe has unique funeral practices, there is a lot of commonality in their beliefs about death and how the body should be treated afterwards. Understanding these beliefs is important to honor the deceased and support the bereaved.

In This Episode:

• 05:17 – Food and Native American Life
• 08:05 – Recipe – Scalloped Corn Casserole
• 09:43 – Death in Indigenous American Communities; Interview with Dr. Jeanna Ford
• 19:59 – Witness to a Native American Funeral
• 28:38 – Outro

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We want our loved ones to be able to make their own decisions as long as they are able, but what do you do when they are making bad decisions? Learn about decision-making capacity and the differences between ability, capacity and competency. Listen and get resources: https://bit.ly/48u4DcB

#decisions #advancedirective #takingcareofmom #dementia #caregiver #healthcareproxy #everyonedies #everydayisagift

In this Show:

• 01:27 – Recipe: Peanut Butter Cake Mix Cookies
• 03:39 – Connections with Loved Ones After Death
• 17:22 – Decision-Making Ability, Capacity, and Competency
• 1:04:12 – Encouragement for Caregivers from a Hospice Nurse
• 1:07:59 – Outro

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Did you know a two-second diversion is all it takes to double your risk of a car accident? Learn facts and several tips to help you and others stay safe on the road.  We also talk about two people's long journey to burial and a wife's dilemma when her husband asked him to help him find a way to kill himself to avoid dementia.

In this Episode:

• 01:21 – Recipe of the Week: Bliss Balls
• 02:21 – Long Journeys to Burial
• 11:03 – How to Avoid a Car Accident
• 39:28 – Ask the Ethicist: “My Husband Is Facing Dementia. Can I Help Him End His Life?”
• 51:11 – Outro

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