Author of Storytelling with Children, and Storytelling and the Art of Imagination, her book, Body Eloquence, won the 2008 US Books Best Books Award in the field of Alternative Medicine. She has followed the path of storytelling deep into the physiological processes of the human body and continues to pioneer new consciousness of the relationship between language, imagination and well-being.
Episode 115: A conversation with Paul and Sally Nash on the sibling support project
Paul and Sally Nash live in Birmingham UK and married in 1986. They are both ordained Anglicans, both Myers Briggs Type Indicator Practitioners (although opposite types), both support London football teams (Sally Spurs and Paul Chelsea) both play golf and have worked with and for each other in some capacity for much of the time they have known each other.
Episode 114: A conversation with Donna Wilson on family conflict at the end of life
Donna’s research program focuses on health services and health policy; primarily in relation to aging, ageism, and end-of-life care. Her work is oriented to myth busting, to ensure effective and accessible healthcare services for older and younger people. Her investigations often involve population data and mixed-methods research. She has over 300 articles, books, book chapters, and other peer-reviewed communications in print. She is frequently and widely consulted for expert commentary on aging, end-of-life care, health policy, healthcare services, and health system trends and issues.
Episode 113: A conversation with Amy Wright Glenn
She earned her MA in Religion and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She taught in the Religion and Philosophy Department at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey for over a decade earning the Dunbar Abston Jr. Chair for Teaching Excellence.
Episode 112: A conversation with Rosemary Keevil on grief and addiction
Favorite Jobs and Assignments:
- News reporting for CFTO-CTV in Toronto, Canada
- Host of The Rosemary Keevil Show (original, I know!), a live, drive-time, current affairs talk show, CFUN Radio (CHUM National Radio Network) in Vancouver, Canada
- Guest relations for the Vancouver International Film Festival
- Managing editor of Scarlett magazine (now defunct: not my fault!) for the professional woman, in Vancouver
- Can-can dancer at Diamond Tooth Gerties Gambling Casino in Dawson City, Yukon
- Destination representative for Sunflight Holidays in Tahiti, French Polynesia
Episode 111: A conversation with Jennifer Farmer on healing from grief
As a speaker and spiritual teacher, Jennifer is a recognized leader in personal development and spirituality, and has led signature workshops on intuition, meditation, connecting to the Spirit World, and other spiritual themes. She continues to study new teachings and regularly attends workshops as well, including the Arthur Findlay College in the UK.
As an author, her healing meditations and new book, A Healing Journey, provide comfort and guidance, like a lighthouse in a storm for those seeking peace and renewal. Jennifer’s gifts of wisdom, insight, and intuition are unparalleled—whether she is teaching a workshop live or leading groups online.
Episode 110: A conversation with Joanna Wojtkowiak on death rituals and symbolic immortality in contemporary Dutch culture.
Recently, she has been studying existential concerns at the start of life: what does our origin mean to us? What is the meaning of our beginning? What does it mean to bring life into the world? By comparing and contrasting existential concerns at birth and death she tries to unravel processes of meaning, with specific focus on embodiment and relationality. In the past, she has studied concepts of symbolic immortality (notions of a “postself”), ethics of end-of-life decision-making and the role of secular or personal spirituality. Other research interests are: identity theory, relational and narrative perspectives, ritual as intervention/method used in pastoral care, interdisciplinary research and mixed-methods.
A conversation with Anne Francis
Anne teaches pastoral theology in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth and is Visiting Lecturer and Supervisor at the Margaret Beaufort Institute in Cambridge, England. She supports ministry colleagues in her Pastoral Supervision practice. Anne is married with three adult children. She loves swimming in the Atlantic at first light, throughout the year. She recently published her book Called: Women in Ministry in Ireland based on interviews with female Christian ministers across the denominations from the four corners of Ireland.
A conversation with Mary-Frances O’Connor on the grieving brain
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1998 – 2004
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1992 – 1996
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Director of Clinical Training
University of Arizona, Department of Psychology
2019 – present
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Arizona, Department of Psychology
2017 – present
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Arizona, Department of Psychology
2012 – 2017
Assistant Professor in Residence
UCLA, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science
2007 – 2012
Postdoctoral Fellow
UCLA, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology
2004 – 2007
Intern, Health Track
UCLA, Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital
2003 – 2004
Episode 107: A conversation with Hank Dunn on hard choices at the end of life.
A Florida native, Hank is a graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in history and was on football scholarship. He received his Master of Divinity degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
After serving for five years right after seminary in a very traditional church in Macon, Georgia he moved to the Washington, DC area to be a part of the very nontraditional Church of the Saviour. For a year following the move to DC, Hank worked as a carpenter and then for four years directed an inner-city ministry for hard-to-employ people. In 1983 Chaplain Dunn began his healthcare work as a nursing home chaplain. He has served as a hospice chaplain and volunteered nights and weekends as an on-call chaplain at a community hospital.
He is a past president of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association and has served on several ethics committees. Hank is a frequent speaker nationally on the topic of making end-of-life decisions and spirituality and healthcare.
To help him explain end-of-life decisions to patients and families, he wrote a booklet to hand to them so they could reflect on the issues discussed. As an afterthought, he sent the book out to other institutions to see if they would be interested in purchasing it for their clients. First published in 1990, Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Feeding Tubes, Palliative Care, Comfort Measures, and the Patient with a Serious Illness is now in its Sixth Edition, with over 3.9 million copies sold, and it is being used in more than 5,000 hospitals, nursing homes, faith communities and hospice programs nationwide. His second book, Light in the Shadows: Meditations While Living with a Life-Threatening Illness, is a collection of reflections on the emotional and spiritual concerns at the end of life. Besides speaking on topics related to his books, Chaplain Dunn has also been a leader of silent retreats. Hank has recently moved to Oxford, Mississippi after 39 years living in the DC suburbs of Virginia. He enjoys fly fishing, wilderness camping, hiking, kayaking and life in general.