Dr. J and Melissa Mullamphy share on patient advocacy, death, grief, loss, healing and end of life.

Dr. Jeanette welcomes Melissa Mullamphy, to share her story of being a patient advocate for her mother and all the hardships they both went through to the end of days and beyond. Melissa's new book is Not in Vain; A Promise Kept in which she shares the story from diagnosis to healing after her mother's death.What is the experience at end of life from either a sudden onset of disease or long term caring for a loved one? What does the physical body go through and how can you watch a loved one change and fade away? What happens when the choice of doing and seeking medical interventions is met with challenges of cost, access, or getting the right care hits the concept of saving loved ones with all the help that is possible in the healthcare system? What happens when there are no medical interventions available and you sit waiting with broken heart and soul, experiencing the death process?How can you make sense of death, if all your life, you have been running from it and denied its existence? What happens when darkness, pain, suffering, grief, loss, and downright life breaking moments take over? How do you support another but still, how do you support yourself in the process?What is an advocate and how can you take on the process, navigate the experience, and take care of self in the choices or life breaths that are taken away? Do you let yourself also walk the loved one to death's door and maybe decide you too should go through it?Dr. Jeanette has been a patient advocate for decades and shares her words here in conversation with Melissa, who helped her mother through the process. There are many challenges to even listen to the words if you too have had a loss, but there are ways to heal and honor souls after death. Are you ready to hear the moments?For more information on Melissa visit: www.MelissaMullamphy.comFor a free newsletter, gentle healing book, and session coupon with Dr. Jeanette visit: www.DrJeanetteGallagher.com Dr. Jeanette supports you through disease, health, death, grief, loss, and healing with many tools that will allow you to be one with body, mind and soul of our present existence. Schedule your healing session today, if you have lost a loved one, experience the process too many times, find you are broken and cannot move forward, have suffered a great loss and grief is still around, or you just want to talk. Many sessions are available, please review options on the website: www.DrJeanetteGallagher.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/wellness-radio-with-dr-j--4618136/support.