- Terry BallantyneYour First Steps When Someone DiesFebruary 26, 2015The moment someones essence, spirit, consciousness, soul, whatever you are comfortable with leaves the room, it is a moment like no other experience. People all experience it differently and there is no predicting how you will feel or react, but likely you will be lost. Not unlike the first moment alone at home with a newborn child. Now what? Here is some down to earth helpful information. You experience a death that is expected, and in a residential facility or hospital: Let the nurse or staff...
- Terry BallantyneWhen Moving Forward is Really Really HardFebruary 13, 2015For the person selling the family home in their 70s, 80s, or 90s, it represents so much more than a change of residence. And this group has a limited voice and not much say over what happens when adult children step in to be "practical" or "realistic". It is rather like looking at the folks who endured the dust bowl phenomenon in Oklahoma. "Why didn't they just leave?" Why endure that horrific dust and wind and loss and devastation year after year? Because it was...
- Terry BallantyneChanging The ConversationFebruary 11, 2015As we navigate the norms, and push against the complacency born of ignorance, exhaustion and isolation, we are slowly forging a new path through end of life issues. We must challenge all of it, the doctors, the funeral homes, Medicare, our families, the popular culture. Our death, and our bodies are ours alone and we need to be proactive in how it goes down. https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/…/know-the-hard-choices-pro…/…
- Terry BallantyneDying Should Not Be So Brutal!February 11, 2015I have been speaking and talking about how we as boomers need to take control of our last great rebellion! How we 'shuffle off our mortal coil' and show the next generation how to transform from physical to another realm with grace and dignity, is our last great act. No more viewed as fragile empty meaningless bodies in our last hours, but time capsules, bearers of wisdom, keepers of the cultural narrative, incubators of patience, gentle guides, bestowers of confidence, protectors of innocence, and guardians...
- Terry Ballantyne
- Terry Ballantyne