Death, grief & the legacy we leave behind | Part I | Beth Cavenaugh

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Lindsey Elmore

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine

5.0 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Beth Cavenaugh is a certified hospice and palliative care nurse and educator with over 14 years of experience in caring for terminally ill patients. She has been a registered nurse for over 24 years and holds a bachelor's degree in nursing from Creighton University. Beth has supported hundreds of patients and their families at inpatient units, in the home setting, and behind the scenes in hospice care. Compassion, patient autonomy, and transparent communication are at the core of her care philosophy. Beth is the author of ‘Some Light at the End: An End-of-Life Guidebook for Patients and Their Caregivers’. Topics covered in this episode: •Who is Beth’s book, ‘Some Light at the End’ written for? •The difference between hospice and palliative care. •End of life rituals. •How to care for the caregivers. •How to craft gentleness in our language around the time of our loved one’s death. •What does death look like? •Spirituality. •How to talk and educate children about death. Referenced in the episode: •Steven Pantilat, MD, who is the chair of palliative care department at the University of California, San Francisco. •The Lindsey Elmore - episode 9: Talking to your kids about sex. An interview with Emily Gaudreau. Learn more about Beth Cavenaugh at www.bethcavenaugh.com Wellness Made Simple is a new subscription platform; a one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about how to course correct or how to prevent symptoms from happening in the first place. Head over to www.wellnessmadesimple.us to sign up today. We hope you enjoyed this episode. Come check us out at www.lindseyelmore.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to today's episode of the Lindsay Elmore show. If you've been listening for a
0:04.8	moment, you know that my grandmother died back in January. And even more recently than that,
0:10.9	one of my close friends passed away. So I decided to dedicate an entire week to the inevitable end of all of our lives, death, grief, and the legacies that we
0:26.6	leave behind. In today's episode, I am interviewing Beth Kavanaugh, a registered nurse who has
0:32.9	worked in hospice for almost 15 years and is the author of Some Light at the End. It's a bedside guide for peaceful, palliative, and hospice for almost 15 years and is the author of some light at the end. It's a bedside guide for
0:39.7	peaceful, palliative, and hospice care. Then at the end of the week, I read a heartfelt essay
0:47.8	dedicated to the life and legacy that was left to me by my grandmother. Let's get to the show.
0:55.1	Welcome to the Lindsay Elmore Show, a podcast for people who deserve to be healthy.
1:00.3	With honest, open, and enlightening conversations with doctors, thought leaders, creatives, and spiritual gurus,
1:08.5	you'll walk away with simple and tangible tips and tricks that allow you
1:14.1	to live your healthiest life so you can pursue your dreams, overcome obstacles, and leave your
1:20.6	mark.
1:22.5	Beth Kavanaugh has been a registered nurse for 25 years, and this May has had 15 years experience
1:30.2	working in hospice. She is a mother of three, a Reiki master, and a writer only because
1:37.1	she has so much to say. She wrote some light at the end, your bedside guide for peaceful, palliative, and hospice care.
1:49.3	Beth Kavanaugh, welcome to the Lindsay Elmore Show.
1:53.6	Thanks. It's so fun to be here. I'm so excited to meet you and honored.
1:57.9	Oh, I am so honored to talk to you because I have recently had two deaths of people
2:04.9	very close to me. And, you know, as as painful as death can be, it somehow is so powerfully life-affirming. And it gives you a moment of pause where you just take a
2:27.0	step back and go, what an amazing thing to feel this pain now because I loved someone so much. I loved someone so much
2:41.1	that it's worth going through this pain now because I got to experience life with them.
2:49.1	And I had a friend tell me, look, if you really want to think about life and how fleeting it is,
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