Hospice Care: Bridging Life & Death with Nurse Hadley
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever pondered the profound connections formed during life’s final moments?
Hospice nurse, New York Times best-selling author, and founder of Hadley’s House, Hadley Vlahos, or Nurse Hadley as she’s known on social media, shares her experiences navigating the in-between space of life and death.
We explore her journey as a hospice care provider, the unique insights into death and the afterlife she has gained from her patients, how the spiritual encounters of hospice patients challenge the reconciliation of scientific evidence with spiritual belief, and the significance of hospice care and how it can empower patients to maintain control in their final days.
Topics We Discuss:
- [3:36] Hospice Care and Compassion
- [15:50] Exploring the Afterlife and Spiritual Experiences
- [22:41] Dying and Consciousness in Hospice Care
- [28:12] Lessons From Death and Loved Ones
- [33:34] Caregiving, Naming Characters, Creating Hadley
- [45:20] Pursuing Dreams Despite Unexpected Paths
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Find Nurse Hadley and the programs she offers on her website, Instagram, or TikTok.
Hadley’s book, “The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments” is available on Amazon. (affiliate)
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| 0:00.0 | regardless if they were scared of death beforehand they all of a sudden were not and no medications |
| 0:06.3 | had been changed nothing had been changed but they would say that they would see their deceased |
| 0:10.9 | loved ones and they were calm and it seems like they do that they you know have one foot here |
| 0:16.4 | and one foot somewhere else and it's amazing to be able to sit with patients then. And you can feel it. |
| 0:23.0 | You know, not something that you can really tangibly say, but I think most hospice nurses would say |
| 0:27.5 | that you can feel whenever they're in between worlds. |
| 0:42.9 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between. |
| 0:48.5 | Today is such an honor for me to have Hadley Vlahos on the show. If you have not been on Instagram, then you probably don't know her. |
| 0:53.4 | But if you've been on Instagram, you for sure know |
| 0:56.4 | Hadley. Hadley is a registered nurse. She has incredible stories that she shares and TikToks that she does |
| 1:06.2 | all about hospice care and helps you get very, very comfortable with the idea of death and dying. |
| 1:13.6 | And her newest book, The In Between, Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments, is a New York Times bestseller. |
| 1:22.9 | It is incredible. It is such a great, meaningful, thoughtful read that makes you feel inspired to live |
| 1:31.6 | a more meaningful, connected life. So welcome Nurse Hadley. Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:38.0 | I am so excited to talk to you. First of all, let's start, before we dive into the contents of the |
| 1:43.4 | book, let's start with before we dive into the contents of the book, let's start with how, |
| 1:45.8 | as a young, single mom, you got into hospice care. |
| 1:50.8 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:52.2 | So I originally had gone to college university to be a writer. |
| 1:56.3 | And then at 19, I got pregnant unexpectedly and said, okay, well, that's not going to cut it to support the two of us. |
| 2:04.9 | So I started looking at careers that within a reasonable time frame I could provide for both of us. |
| 2:10.0 | And nursing definitely fit that bill. |
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