• Season 3: Episode 28: Preparing a Family for Another Transition

  • May 18 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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Season 3: Episode 28: Preparing a Family for Another Transition

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  • Season 3: Episode 28: Preparing a Family for Another Transition Despite Continued Setbacks, We Move Forward   Guiding a family through a traumatic event requires compassion, empathy, and a delicate balance of support and engagement.  When faced with profound grief, it is crucial to provide a safe space for open family dialogue, together in family meetings.  Acknowledging wrongs and supporting forgiveness can be powerful choices in the emotional healing process, allowing individuals to release the weight of resentment to foster their own personal growth. However, forgiveness is a deeply personal journey, and it can never be rushed nor forced. Patiently listening to each family member's unique experience of pain and loss helps create an atmosphere of understanding which further the journey of acceptance. As we close out season 3, Louise gives us rare glimpses into family conversations as her family makes another transition through Archer’s brave, harrowing journey of SCI recovery, moving from the halls of the Shepherd center to a begin a new chapter at the next hospital and rehab center Baltimore,  Maryland.   In this episode:   Diane Festa, Dame in the Order of Malta, Atlanta Angel who cared for Louise so she could care for Archer.   Dr. Ray Talucci, the Chief of Trauma at Atlanticare Medical System in Atlantic City, NJ who provided profound words of wisdom in the last family meeting in the ICU.   Blink of an Eye is created by Louise Phipps Senft and co-produced by Louise Phipps Senft and Zera Bloom. Theme music is by Victoria Vox.   Blink of an Eye Podcast is sponsored by the Blink of an Eye Non Profit: a non-profit created as a national resource to help change the Spinal Cord Injury experience for families and medical teams across the U.S. Blink of an Eye provides a national team of SCI specialized doctors for expert opinions in the Golden Hours of SCI injury, a Multidisciplinary Family Support & Navigation Team for SCI families lead by SCI families for the first 30 days of crisis, and a National Resource Library of essential SCI information and trauma informed responses for the first hours and days after injury specialized for families, friends and SCI medical staff. Blink of an Eye also offers a Registry of Medically Unexpected SCI Recoveries. To find out more, visit www.blinkofaneye.org and donate to their Launch Campaign at www.givebutter.com/blinkofaneye   To find out more about Louise and this podcast, visit the websites www.blinkofaneyepodcast.com and www.BeingRelational.com.     To find out more about learning relational mediation skills for navigating hospital and medical conflict and trauma, visit the website www.BaltimoreMediation.com.     Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @blinkofaneyepodcast. Our Twitter is @blinkofaneyepod. Make sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can become a member of our Patreon community and see extra Blink of an Eye content and bonus episodes at: www.patreon.com/blinkofaneyepod.    To find out more about Archer and to see some of Archer’s artwork, check out www.slimeyard.com.  #hopeforeverything   #obtaineverything  #lovehealstrauma  #beginagain   Music in this episode is: Dream Guitar by Frank Schroeter https://filmmusic.io/song/7759-dream-guitar License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Ethereal Meditative Piano by MusicLFiles Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6292-ethereal-meditative-piano License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Horizon Flare by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4837-horizon-flare License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Emotional Piano Improvisation by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6199-emotional-piano-improvisation License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Angel Share by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3367-angel-share License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Soft Interlude by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7766-soft-interlude License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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