Terese Marie Miller Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Certified Aromatherapist

What kind of madness inspired this?
Well, its "open season" on Trans and LGBTQ youths in Tennessee!. Will the State fund conversion camps in their next move to terrorize children?

Tenn. passes law giving legal rights to anti-LGBTQ parents to foster, adopt LGBTQ kids • Tennessee Lookout A Tennessee law giving adults with moral or religious objections to LGBTQ identify to foster kids will harm children, LGBTQ advocates say.

Staghorn

Someone finally moved in ;-)

Louie is tired!

A must see documentary! Women's ability to reproduce has become a threat to their lives!

Watch 'On the Brink' Friday, January 5 on ABC | ABC Updates The "Impact x Nightline" original report "On the Brink" will air as a primetime special on Friday, Jan. 5, at 8 p.m. EST on ABC.

Happy Winter Solstice🌲🦚🦌❄️

Brief but happy visit to St Augustine 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Walking the “bridge of lions “…

Butts together all 4 the sun!

Write a caption...Cuban frog on my mailbox!

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Granddad orchid

Orchids blooming !

What a fun time a year! This beautiful capture is from Seattle by Wolf Mercury Photography.

Yucca finally bloomed! Waiting for 15 yrs👏!

Maui-based acupuncturists are providing treatments in evacuation shelters and other venues on the island. New clinics are starting today, so spread the word if you know folks in Maui who would like to receive free treatments! AWB is supporting various local clinic efforts in Maui and Oahu, so please consider donating to cover supplies and other expenses. Thank you!

When someone dies, the first thing to do is nothing. Don't run out and call the nurse. Don't pick up the phone. Take a deep breath and be present to the magnitude of the moment.

There's a grace to being at the bedside of someone you love as they make their transition out of this world. At the moment they take their last breath, there's an incredible sacredness in the space. The veil between the worlds opens.

We're so unprepared and untrained in how to deal with death that sometimes a kind of panic response kicks in. "They're dead!"

We knew they were going to die, so their being dead is not a surprise. It's not a problem to be solved. It's very sad, but it's not cause to panic.

If anything, their death is cause to take a deep breath, to stop, and be really present to what's happening. If you're at home, maybe put on the kettle and make a cup of tea.

Sit at the bedside and just be present to the experience in the room. What's happening for you? What might be happening for them? What other presences are here that might be supporting them on their way? Tune into all the beauty and magic.

Pausing gives your soul a chance to adjust, because no matter how prepared we are, a death is still a shock. If we kick right into "do" mode, and call 911, or call the hospice, we never get a chance to absorb the enormity of the event.

Give yourself five minutes or 10 minutes, or 15 minutes just to be. You'll never get that time back again if you don't take it now.

After that, do the smallest thing you can. Call the one person who needs to be called. Engage whatever systems need to be engaged, but engage them at the very most minimal level. Move really, really, really, slowly, because this is a period where it's easy for body and soul to get separated.

Our bodies can gallop forwards, but sometimes our souls haven't caught up. If you have an opportunity to be quiet and be present, take it. Accept and acclimatize and adjust to what's happening. Then, as the train starts rolling, and all the things that happen after a death kick in, you'll be better prepared.

You won't get a chance to catch your breath later on. You need to do it now.

Being present in the moments after death is an incredible gift to yourself, it's a gift to the people you're with, and it's a gift to the person who's just died. They're just a hair's breath away. They're just starting their new journey in the world without a body. If you keep a calm space around their body, and in the room, they're launched in a more beautiful way. It's a service to both sides of the veil.

Sarah Kerr, Death Doula
https://www.facebook.com/SoulPassages/videos/610729049323633/?t=59

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