Testimonials

Nobody wants to hear, "Your loved one has Alzheimer's." Myra Lovvorn listened to my description of symptoms my husband was exhibiting. Two years before he was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer's Myra had his diagnosis pegged. She offered me ideas on resources to access. She coached me on what to expect. She told me I'd need to prepare myself emotionally for a difficult time ahead. I knew no one personally who had ever dealt with Alzheimer's. Myra helped me understand I would need to find assisted living arrangements for my husband at some point in the future. I didn't want to believe that I couldn't manage his care myself. Again, she was absolutely right. I did need to find care for him so I could maintain my sanity, my work life and my income. Myra is a kind and caring woman who doesn't mince words. She's to the point while also being loving and understanding. Myra helped me set my understanding and be emotionally prepared for the journey my husband and I were both to endure. This helped me tremendously. Preparedness allowed me to meet the challenges without the overwhelm of emotions. I was able to remain calm and make informed decisions with Myra's guidance. End of life decisions are never easy. However, I knew with Myra's guidance I could do what I had to do and see my husband through his difficult spiritual journey to his final breaths. We did just that. My husband left his body in February of 2021, four years after Myra and I first spoke about his situation. I'm forever grateful for Myra's frankness, love and support. She is a light in the darkness of human challenge and a blessing to have in your back pocket! Sincerely, Karen McKy Let me know if you want something different. Feel free to trim it down if you need to. I've also felt called to end of life service. I'm not sure what that looks like. I think I'm supposed to be helping caregivers manage the limitations and challenges they face with end of life decisions and managing the journey by setting supportive belief structures into place. If you want to consider how we might collaborate on this let me know. I'd be honored to teach the PSYCH-K stuff with end of life as the focal point. Love to you Myra!!! - Karen McKy, Colorado

"Granny was in the hospital with end stage lung cancer and all she wanted was to GO HOME . . ." 

Many medical facilities and hospices are struggling to survive in an ever more challenging environment of regulatory scrutiny, demands for compliance and financial constraints impacting staff retention. The adoption of organizational survival modes may have a negative impact on the unique characteristics that are the hallmark of quality end-of-life care. Education of staff providing quality care at end-of-life is almost non-existent for many reasons.   Our responsibility to care for those in transition was given away to our religious leaders over 2000 years ago and as the current medical system took over 2-300 years ago, dying was seen as ‘failure’ of the system, further pushing aside the skills of those who are able to be present with the dying (referred to in this writing as ‘presencing’. Slowly, we are seeing the resurgence of ‘the death doula’ even while end-of-life is becoming a medicalized financial practice. As stated in our first book, Brenda Clarkson had the dream that the death process has to be returned to communities. I share that dream and by publishing this, we both hope that it will support those who ‘take up the mantel for the dying’ and begin to embrace the last stage of life.   Returning to the original principles upon which end-of-life care was founded, this work will share core behaviors for the person to practice and understand the role of the Mystery Watcher. These behaviors, as well as the developmental journey through the presencing with the dying, are based on long-forgotten cultural teachings, nursing and social work research, attenuated by over 25 years of end-of-life nursing practice.   Coming Soon . . .

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