Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

All is found

Posted on April 19, 2014 by dgermann

All All is found In one tear :- Doug.

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Tears, sadness, loss Tell me, oh tell me: What do they do to you? How do they bring us close To our elemental togetherness? I cajole, I plead with you What is the elusive Fundamental Joy to which they open, … Continue reading →

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maps of the territory

Posted on April 13, 2014 by dgermann

I have maps of the territory and can act as your guide. :- Doug.

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Find themselves wise?

Posted on April 10, 2014 by dgermann

I like being able to solve problems others cannot, to have a tool (trick?) bag others lack, and being seen as the valuable one. But am I thus giving less value than wisdom? Put another way, would give more value … Continue reading →

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What about the end of life conversation draws you?

Posted on April 7, 2014 by dgermann

What is about the end of life conversation that draws you? How does it draw—picture—re-vision—you? :- Doug.

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Healing

Posted on April 5, 2014 by dgermann

Awareness is healing Conversing is healing Being heard is healing You are healing :- Doug.

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Know our relatedness again

Posted on April 4, 2014 by dgermann

We can come to know our relatedness again for the first time. :- Doug.

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We have the questions we seek

Posted on April 2, 2014 by dgermann

We have the questions we seek. :- Doug.

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Cure or comfort, how can we know?

Posted on April 1, 2014 by dgermann

How can we in the early 21st Century know when to go from cure to comfort? Or should we like water, like life, gradually flow? Can we, ought we, make such a distinction? Ought we seek to give comfort whenever … Continue reading →

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Woven or entangled?

Posted on March 30, 2014 by dgermann

Woven or entangled? Yes, we are :- Doug.

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have my heart

Posted on March 29, 2014 by dgermann

My clients have my heart. :- Doug.

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Healing the heart of families

Posted on March 28, 2014 by dgermann

As an elder caring attorney I see the conversations I invite healing the heart of families. :- Doug.

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Getting through

Posted on March 25, 2014 by dgermann

For the doctor the purpose is getting through the difficult conversation. For the healer, the purpose is in the getting through. :- Doug.

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The hidden thing:

Posted on March 24, 2014 by dgermann

Last night I helped a family resolve how to get Dad the care he needs without impoverishing Mom. Here’s the hidden thing: I was helping them figure out their pattern to come together years from now when Mom and Dad … Continue reading →

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Family, syncopated

Posted on March 23, 2014 by dgermann

Family, turning to one another, is by that alone made both richer and simpler. We are symmetrical, resembling each other, and syncopated in the large. :- Doug.

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We make the world whole by turning to one another

Posted on March 22, 2014 by dgermann

We make the world whole by turning to one another. I help families turn to one another when one is seriously. :- Doug.

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Trying mainly to get through the conversation?

Posted on March 21, 2014 by dgermann

Are the medical people trying mainly to get through the conversation? Or to help the families in front of them? Am I? :- Doug.

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