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The Integrative Palliative Podcast — 175 episodes

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When You Can't Save Your Loved One

2

Meditative Heartbeat Therapy: An Interview with Daniel Deloma

3

Nobody Prepares You for This

4

Self-Forgiveness - The Antidote to Shame

5

How to Talk to Your Doctor So They Don't Blow You Off

6

What to do When You're Having an Especially Bad Day

7

Visiting Your Aging Parents Over the Holidays: What to Watch For and When to Worry

8

10 Ways to Get the Best Hospice Care for Your Loved One

9

A Meditation to Make Peace With Grief

10

The Mindful Approach to Grief

11

The Responsible One, The Favorite, and The Ghost: How Childhood Roles Shape Caregiving

12

Writing a Meaningful Letter to a Loved One

13

How to Receive Love: A Powerful Interview with Michael L Smith

14

Caring for Yourself as You Care for Your Aging Parent

15

When Your Parent Won't Accept Your Help: 20 Ways to Make it Better

16

Grieving is Not a Competition

17

Caring for an Aging Parent with Siblings Who Are Driving You Crazy

18

Zoom Funerals: How to Make a Powerful and Meaningful Service Without Leaving Your House

19

Beyond the Urn: Creative Things to Do with Your Loved One's Ashes

20

The Power of Permission When Times are Tough

21

Three Words That Help Reduce Distress in Difficult Times

22

Fragments and Light: An Exploration of Traumatic Grief

23

A Call for Medical Aid in Dying: A Tale of Autonomy and Desperation

24

Bearing Witness to Grief: A Powerful Way to Support Someone Who is Grieving

25

Anticipatory Grief: A View From the Inside

26

Advance Directive Dos and Don'ts: Key Advice for Your Patients, Your Family and Yourself

27

What is Holding You Back? Five Steps for Finally Doing What You've Been Avoiding

28

Palliative Care Updates with Dr. Janet Abrahm

29

The Physician Entrepreneur: An Inspiring Interview with Dr. Una

30

How to Start the Conversation: 5 Tips for Initiating Talks About End-of-Life Wishes

31

From Cold Showers to Going Flat: Katie Duke's Empowering View of Breast Cancer From the Inside

32

The Tyranny of Expectations

33

Avoiding Regret: 4 Key Steps

34

Advance Directives & Emergency Medicine: Wisdom From the Front Lines with Dr. Dan Morhaim

35

Managing the Holidays When Someone Important is Missing

36

Coping When Faced with Deeply Upsetting Circumstances

37

The Basics of Gender Affirming Care: A Primer for Physicians and Clinicians

38

Supporting Blind Patients: From 'Pity Party' to 'Propel Party' with Sarah Freeman Smith

39

Eco-Friendly End-of-Life Options: Green Burials and Beyond

40

White Coat Crossroads: An Interview with Physician Career Coach Heather Fork, MD

41

Handling Angry Patients Without Losing Your Cool

42

Emotional Needs of the Dying: Four Key Concepts to Discuss with Your Patients

43

Mental Status Change in Hospice Patients: What to Do and Not to Do

44

When Patients with Cancer Pain Won't Take Opioids: 30 Reasons Why and What to Do About It

45

Ketamine: What It Is, Who Should Use It, And How the Palliative Population is Different

46

Dealing with Uncertainty in Health and Life: 4 Dos and 4 Don'ts

47

LovingKindness Meditation: An Experiential Episode to Feed Your Soul

48

Leave Your Heirs the Gift of Organization: How Adam Zuckerman's "Buried in Work" Simplifies Estate & End-of Life Planning

49

Dealing with Challenging Patients: The Power of Empathy Plus Boundaries

50

The Less Stress Doc: An Interview with Dr. Gary Sprouse

51

Caring for a Challenging Loved One: 3 Questions and 3 Truths

52

A Rational Approach to Chiropractic Care: Guidance from Brian Morrison, DC

53

Your Internal Judge Makes Practicing Medicine (and Everything Else) Harder

54

The Power of Mind-Body Medicine: An Interview with James Gordon MD, Founder of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine

55

Moral Distress, Moral Injury, and Humanity in Healthcare

56

Don't Blame The Victim: 4 Myths of Clinician Self-Care

57

How to Handle it When Your Patient is Crying

58

Joyful Palliative Care

59

2024 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health: 8 Key Takeaways

60

Using Negotiation Skills to Communicate Effectively with Patients

61

The Power of the Healthcare Provider Gaze: An Interview with Dignity Expert Harvey Chochinov MD, PhD

62

Integrative Health Coaching and Education: A Discussion with Michelle Pearce, Phd

63

Dementia: 7 Ways to Connect When Language Is No Longer Accessible

64

Integrative Nutrition Coaching: An Interview with Joel Edman

65

A Surprising Cause of Pain in a Patient with Cancer: A Case Discussion

66

How to Stay Sane in the Presence of Suffering - 6 Key Steps

67

Acceptance is Badass - A Reading From Coping Courageously

68

BreathNote: A Powerful Tool for Using Your Breath to Improve Wellbeing

69

Look for Wonder... And Then Create It

70

Remote Neurofeedback: A Conversation with Francesco Amico and Alvaro Villegas

71

The Clinicians Guide to Guided Imagery

72

All About Yoga Therapy: An Interview With Yoga Therapist Kelly Bethel

73

Stop "Shoulding" on People

74

The Power of Acceptance

75

I Donated My Kidney to a Stranger: A Fascinating Interview with Chaya Lasson, RN

76

How to Help Your Patients Cope Courageously

77

My Gift to You: Permission

78

Anchoring - A Powerful Tool to Support Wellbeing for You and Your Patients

79

Clinician Grief: It's Real, It's Important and We Need to Talk About it. An Interview with Grief Expert Helen Bauer.

80

When There Isn't Enough Time: 8 Tips for Practicing Compassionate Medicine in a High Patient Volume Environment

81

When Family is Fraught

82

The Beauty of Ayurveda: An Interview with Susan Weis-Bohlen

83

Talking to Patients About Prognosis

84

Integrative Oncology: An Interview with Dr. Kirsten West

85

Becoming a Sage Physician: The 8 Key Steps

86

Fascia Facts: Learn From Fascia Expert David Lesondak

87

Responding to Stress with a Positive Mindset: The Power of Positive Intelligence

88

Building Mental Fitness (Part 1): An Insightful Interview with Expert Positive Intelligence Coach Bill Carmody

89

Are You A Martyr For Medicine?

90

Using The Death Deck to Facilitate Communication: An Interview with Co-Creator Lisa Pahl, LCSW

91

Talking to Patients About Their Complementary Medicine Use - 8 Key Tips

92

From "I Wish" to "I Will"

93

But What About the Evidence? How to Approach Evidence-Informed Integrative Palliative Care

94

Finding The Job You Love: An Interview with Medical Matchmaker, Dr. Lara Hochman

95

When A Beloved Pet Dies

96

Caring For You While You're Caring for Someone Else: An inspirational interview with Dr. Sherita Gaskins-Tillett

97

Gabapentin: 8 Tips for Using It Well

98

Elegant Acupuncture: An Enlightened Interview with Acupuncturist William Zvarick, L.Ac.

99

When Cancer Treatment is Over: A Surprisingly Stressful Time

100

Chemotherapy Related Hair Loss: How To Counsel Your Patients

101

Cuddle Therapy: A Healing Option That You Might Not Have Tried

102

5 Strategies for Mastering Tough Conversations

103

How to be Happy in a Stressful Job: An Interview with Emergency Medicine Physician Dr. Tamara Beckford

104

When A Parent Has Early Dementia: 8 Suggestions for How to Cope

105

Five Important Considerations For When A Serious Illness Is Progressing

106

Six Ways to Improve Wellbeing in Hospitalized Patients

107

How To Care For A Seriously Ill Loved One Without Betraying Yourself: A powerful interview with Mia Redrick

108

The Gift of Massage for Seriously Ill Patients

109

Talking To People About Their Illness: Know these 6 styles of communication

110

Anticipatory Grief: 10 things to do with your seriously ill loved one

111

Sympathy vs Empathy vs Compassion: How to approach others’ suffering

112

The Game of Joy: An interview with Joy Ambassador Yasmin Nguyen

113

The Nocebo Response: Are You Making Your Patients Worse Without Meaning To?

114

Physicians with ADHD: Open charts, overwhelm and a fabulous, creative mind

115

Being In The Hospital: How doctors and patients can support each other

116

The Power of Breath & Pause: A Lesson in Being with Dr. Rashmi Schramm

117

When Your Pet Needs Palliative Care

118

Sjögren's Syndrome: When the doctor is the patient. An Interview with Dr. Kara Wada

119

Three Ways to Avoid Compassion Fatigue

120

What You Think You Know About Hospice is Probably Wrong: 10 Myths

121

Helping People Deal With Tragedy and Other Hard Things - An 8-Step Approach

122

The Science of Aromatherapy With Dr. Ann Huntington

123

When A Sibling Won't Help: How to Counsel Your Patients to Support Family Wellbeing

124

When The Patient Doesn't Want To Talk About Their Illness: 5 Key Questions To Ask

125

When The Physician Is The Loved One: 8 things to do if you're a physician and you love someone who is seriously ill

126

Say This, Not That: How To Talk To Your Patients (or Family) About Hospice in 7 Easy Steps

127

Better Than A Resolution: A 3 Step Path To Happiness (For You And Your Patients)

128

How A Busy Oncologist Went From Burned Out To Happy And Home On Time

129

What Happened To Dad? What To Do When Your Older Loved Ones Face Functional Decline

130

Practical Use of Aromatherapy in Everyday Practice: Another Tool to Manage Anxiety

131

Fixing Your Relationship With Time: 3 surprising ways to make life less stressful

132

Yes You Can Be Empathetic And Set Boundaries: 3 Steps To Get You There

133

When A Loved One Has Dementia: Wisdom and guidance from neuropsychologist Dr. Karen Sullivan

134

Keeping Your Cup Full: A Practical Technique For Happier Patients and Happier Doctors

135

Musculoskeletal Wellness with Dr. Mary Jo Fishburn

136

The Best Question You'll Ever Ask Your Patient

137

Six Tips For Creating Powerful Doctor-Patient Connection In Short Office Visits

138

Who's Afraid of Buprenorphine?: An Interview with Dr. Ben Thompson

139

Physicians Lifting Each Other Up: A Heart-Centered Interview with Dr. Diana Londono

140

Ten Tips for Giving Bad News Like a Pro

141

When your loved one has a serious illness: Dr. Chiaramonte interviewed by Dr. Olabintan

142

The 4 key steps to excellent integrative symptom management

143

"But I only have 15 minutes" - 10 ways to add integrative symptom management to your practice in the real world

144

Winning at Fibromyalgia - an interview with fibromyalgia expert, Dr. Martina Ziegenbein

145

Your patient is crying - is it depression or sadness and what should you do?

146

When it feels like your patient is being "entitled" - 5 steps to heal challenging doctor-patient interactions

147

Special Guest Dr. Weili Gray - Physician life planner with a compelling personal story about her father's end of life journey

148

Six wisdoms from people at end of life

149

Integrative PM&R: an Interview with Dr. Janice Brown

150

Adding Integrative Medicine to your Oncology Practice

151

What not to say: thoughtful use of words in serious illness care

152

Everything About Eating (for the palliative population)

153

The "H Word": busting 6 hospice myths so you don't have to be afraid to talk about it

154

Healing Patients and Guiding Physicians to Deep Personal Growth - Special Guest Dr. Francis Yoo

155

When Bad Outcomes Happen to Good Doctors

156

Healing Presence - What is it and how can you get some?

157

Anti-inflammatory Pain Management with Dr Saloni Sharma

158

When Patients Push Your Buttons

159

5 tips for dealing with angry patients

160

Gratitude and toxic positivity - what is the difference?

161

Teaching Medical Learners: 5 common mistakes to avoid

162

When your brain's "smoke alarm" is out of whack - teaching patients about central sensitization

163

What is a Mind-Body Specialist? Special guest Lolly Forsythe-Chisolm, M.S.

164

What your inner critic is saying and how to get them to shut up

165

Meditation is so much easier than you think! A primer for you and your patients.

166

Physicians Nurturing Themselves Out loud – Why You Should Use The Good Towels

167

Medical Decision Making – Does Your Patient Have Capacity?

168

Advance Care Planning - Taking the Mystery Out of Making Medical Decisions and Filling Out All The Forms

169

Practicing Medicine - It Takes Bravery!

170

Creative Arts – A Unique Tool For Wellness

171

Preparing for Chemotherapy – A Practical Approach to Helping Your Patients Decrease Chemo Side Effects

172

Managing Anxiety - The Integrative Approach

173

Pain Management - The Integrative Approach

174

Pain Management Mistakes You Don't Want To Make

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