by Peggy Flynn | Oct 31, 2023 | All, Dying and Dealth
On completion of this session the participant will: Have an increased awareness of the shift in demographics across the globe as various countries experience an increasing life span; Become aware of the challenges presented by an aging population: economics, housing,...
by Peggy Flynn | May 31, 2023 | Aging, All, Dying and Dealth
One of the most common topics of conversation around dying and death is what comes after. We can imagine that this kind of speculation goes back millennia, wherever humans gathered around someone who, in one moment, was there and, in the next moment, was gone. Gone...
by Peggy Flynn | May 31, 2023 | All, Dying and Dealth, Spiritual Direction
The metaphor of the butterfly is often used to illustrate the stages in the process of transformation: caterpillar→cocoon→butterfly. The caterpillar gets the signal somehow, someway, to begin to spin fiber around itself; creating a cocoon/chrysalis within which it...
by Peggy Flynn | Jan 30, 2023 | Aging, All, Dying and Dealth
Carl Jung compared the unfolding of a human life to the course of a day. As surely as the morning moves into afternoon and then becomes the evening, each life progresses through stages. What can go wrong? “Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the...
by Peggy Flynn | Oct 31, 2022 | Aging, All, Dying and Dealth
Tis the Season! No, not that season, although I am sure that we will be inundated with Christmas Holiday stuff soon. But this coming week, we are invited to pay special attention to our dead. Summer is ended. The harvest is in. The days grow shorter and shorter. The...
by Peggy Flynn | Apr 29, 2022 | Aging, All, Books, Caregiving, Dying and Dealth, Resources
In my opinion, this book is poised to be a game-changer in the lived experience of dementia and dementia care. The author, Amy Bloom, describes navigating the realities of her husband’s Alzheimer’s as it impacted the various domains of his life and her life, up to and...