by Hélène | Oct 29, 2020 | Purpose Stories
What is your life’s purpose? To increasingly model integrity, compassion, and justice as I work to decrease suffering for people nearing the end of life by encouraging and empowering them to honestly face their mortality. How are you living your purpose? I put much of...
by Hélène | Jan 16, 2020 | Expert Interviews
You are the author of the new release, Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life’s End. What prompted your desire to write this book? Caring for the dying was something I was ill prepared for after medical training. As a part-time job, I began...
by Hélène | Jul 23, 2019 | Expert Interviews
You are a psychiatrist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine with a research focus on dementia, public health policy, end of life care, and bioethics education. What led you to write your new book, Dementia Reimagined? My mother and grandmother both had...
by Hélène | Jun 3, 2019 | Expert Interviews
After 25 years as a psychotherapist, you recently founded the nonprofit Before I Go Solutions. What prompted this decision? After my husband died of cancer in 2011, and everything changed, I always knew I would write about what had been the most devastating experience...
by Hélène | Jan 16, 2018 | Purpose Stories
What is your life’s purpose? To help transform the way people die in our culture one person and one family at a time. How are you living your purpose? I am an End-of-Life Doula—someone who guides and companions people through the dying process by creating meaning,...
