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Mindfulness Skills Blog

Reflections on mindfulness, presence, and peace — embracing life’s stresses, challenges, growth, and endings with awareness, compassion, and grace.

Walking Beside Grief

You might think it strange, supporting a best friend who had cancer.John was in his early forties. He knew I was an end-of-life doula and needed someone he could talk to. It was August. He was going through chemotherapy and radiotherapy, trying everything to hold back the cancer. He was hopeful. But a month later, I got a phone call, there was nothing more that could be done. The cancer was too aggressive, and he had been given until December, the end of the year to live. He

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