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Interdisciplinary Healwell
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5.0 • 18 Ratings
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Interdisciplinary is Healwell's healthcare podcast about all the places and perspectives that lift us up. We say what other people aren't willing to say and we always say the quiet parts loud.You’ll always learn something. You’ll always laugh and you’ll come away better informed and with real things you can do in your own community and practice to create a more compassionate and collaborative system of care for all humans.
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Living "Death Days" at the Cemetery with Laura Lyster-Mensh
Episode description:
Cal and Corey talk to Laura Lyster-Mensh, death doula in residence at Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC about making death an open topic of conversation.
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Resources:
Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh: Author, podcaster, rabble rouser and death doula
Life, Death and Grave Robbery in a Historic Cemetery, PhD Thesis by Rebecca Boggs Roberts
Write your own obituary
Death Positive Programming at Congressional Cemetery
Swedish Death Cleaning
Marie Kondo revealed she's 'kind of given up' on being so tidy
Dust to Dust: A Guide to Green Burials at Congressional Cemetery
The Landscape of Health Care in Wards 7 and 8
About Our Guest:
Laura Lyster-Mensh, MS, is an American writer who has been founding organizations to solve problems all her life, including three international non-profits. She is the author of four books, and has produced four podcast projects, and is currently serving as Death Doula in residence at Historic Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC. She enjoys being old, and doesn’t mind being mortal.
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ELDR Wisdom with Will Craig
Today, Corey is talking with Will Craig, owner of ELDR, a company that provides guidance on approaching end-of-life planning effectively.
ELDR's mission statement:
"We are on a mission to empower and equip people to conclude life smoothly and be remembered well. When you plan in advance of a health crisis, challenging events go more smoothly later, and your life becomes powerfully informed by the reality of its impermanence now."
Show notes:
ELDR website
Respecting Choices website
Peterson Institute for International Economics
About our guest:
Will’s life’s work can be summed up with one simple phrase: Propelling people’s growth to produce meaningful new outcomes. Nothing energizes him like helping someone clarify a problem and find their way to solving it.
He’s fulfilled this calling on a human-to-human level as a teacher, trainer, coach, and father. At the systems level, he’s served as a president, CFO, strategist, and founder. Will says his greatest strength is as a generalist. “I am highly adaptable and listen carefully to help people get their arms around a challenge, break it into bite-size pieces, then set to work with courage and a good plan,” he explained.
As a preacher’s kid, Will grew up in a household where our inevitable death was a regular conversation topic, so planning for it was a no-brainer. Since the subject is so comfortable for him, he can bring a down-to-earth, straightforward approach to his work with clients and end of life educators.
Will’s mission is to recenter the larger cultural conversation around death to make it more pragmatic, and something we prepared for in advance like other major life events. “When it comes to end of life education and planning, the need is great, but follow-through is sparse,” he said. “Clients count on me to bring my compassionate side as a strong listener, as well as my detail-oriented, strategic side to get the job done.”
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The Best Thanksgiving Conversation Ever with Project Talk
Episode description: Corey talks with Heather Costigan and Cindy Bramble from Project Talk about their research and the power of a game to change the conversation.
Guest Links:
Published Research:
Low Skepticism and Positive Attitudes About Advance Care Planning Among African Americans: a National, Mixed Methods Cohort Study
Association of Participation in an End-of-Life Conversation Game With Advance Care Planning Behavior and Perspectives Among African American Individuals
Success of a Community-Based Delivery at Recruiting Individuals from Underserved Communities for an Observational Cohort Study of an Advance Care Planning Intervention
Links:
Project Talk
Become a Project Talk Host!
Hello Game
Conversation Project
Conversation Project Video
Hospice Foundation of America
Principal Investigator Dr. Lauren Van Scoy
IRB- Institutional Review Boards FAQ
RO1 National Institute of Health Research Grant Information
Guest Bios:
Cindy Bramble is the Director of Special Projects for Hospice Foundation of America where she manages their major grant project
Support the showCheck out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy
Giving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here before the end of the year!
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Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.org Find bonus content and early release episodes on our Patreon Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Thank you to ABMP for sponsoring Interdisciplinary!
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The DeathFat Doula with Isabella Carr
Episode description:
Corey talks with Isabella Carr, the Deathfat Doula about the word "fat," death, and dying as a fat person.
Links:
Deathfat Doula
The Fat Lip Podcast
Maintenance Phase Podcast
The Appalachian Retreat + Spa
Two Whole Cakes: Leslie Kinzel
NAAFA- National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
Shilo George
Fategories: Understanding the Fat Spectrum from Fluffy Kitten Party
Guest bio:
Isabella Carr is a writer, theologian, and deathworker specializing in end-of-life care, education, and advocacy for deviant bodies. Isabella is currently a graduate student at Harvard Divinity School and studied under Death Doula LA. Her doula and research focus is a material and theological project called Deathfat: Fat Funerals and Futurities. As a doula, Isabella focuses on providing clear and compassionate care to ensure fat people are able to access the best care possible. Isabella graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in religion and wrote her thesis on fat sexuality and religion. She has spent much of her professional career working with marginalized communities and is dedicated to accessibility and autonomy in life and death.
Support the showCheck out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy
Giving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here before the end of the year!
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Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.org Find bonus content and early release episodes on our Patreon Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Thank you to ABMP for sponsoring Interdisciplinary!
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This Whole Thing We Call Life with Cal Cates
Corey talks with Cal about Cal's experience and interest in death and dying, the two classes they facilitate about it, and about their last day teaching Healwell's hospital based massage therapy class during which Corey causes Cal to cry a little, and has already apologized for it.
Links:
Opening to the Mystery
A Year to Live
Check out this amazing blog post Cal wrote: "Motels, T-shirts and Evil"
Guest bio:
Cal is one of Healwell’s founders and its Executive Director.
Cal speaks around the world on a variety of topics related to integrative medicine, emotional self-care for practitioners and the mechanics and politics of introducing massage therapy into clinical settings.
They* have been participating in research, teaching and developing curriculum for massage therapy courses focused on hospital-based practice, oncology massage and end of life care since 2007. Cal is passionate about elevating the profession of massage therapy and also about broader and more seamless integration of massage therapists into mainstream healthcare.
*Cal is non-binary and uses the pronouns they, their, and them when being referred to in the third person.
Support the showCheck out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy
Giving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here before the end of the year!
Other ways to help and join in:
Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.org Find bonus content and early release episodes on our Patreon Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Thank you to ABMP for sponsoring Interdisciplinary!
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Dignity and Support in Death with Paul Malley
Corey and Cal talk with Paul Malley, President of Aging with Dignity, about Five Wishes. Five Wishes is a legal advanced care planning program without the legalese. Cal comes a little late because they had a small snafu involving a lack of available ATMs and a tradesman who only accepted cash.
Links:
Five Wishes
Aging With Dignity
The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC)
Paul Malley is president of Aging with Dignity, a position to which he was named in 2002. He previously served as the organization’s communications director since 1998. With nearly 20 years of experience in the field of aging and advance care planning, Paul is a national expert, frequent speaker, and advocate for quality and dignified care at the end of life. He served on the Florida delegation for the White House Conference on Aging, and is a member of the national Coalition to Transform Advanced Care. Paul holds a Master of Arts degree in Communications from Florida State University.
Support the showCheck out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy
Giving Tuesday is over, but you can still support Healwell and the cool things we make by donating here before the end of the year!
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Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Let us know what you think! Send us an email: podcast@healwell.org Find bonus content and early release episodes on our Patreon Check Healwell’s live and online classes Continue the conversation with a two-week free trial of the Healwell Community Merch! Find your Healwell fashion here Thank you to ABMP for sponsoring Interdisciplinary!
Thank you to AIHM! Learn more about the AIHM Fellowship by emailing fellowship@aihm.org
Customer Reviews
Conversations we all should be having…
I’m not a massage therapist but think the Healwell folx are having the conversations that should be happening in many other professions as well, especially if you have to interact with other humans, which tbh is all of us. Honest humans having honest and important conversations…highly recommend!
So appreciative!
I listened to the “Massage Without Borders” podcast weekly from its beginning and it was my connection to massage while I couldn’t work during the pandemic. When it switched to “Interdisciplinary” I was disappointed. Even though I was very supportive of massage interconnected with other healthcare, I took a break from the podcast.
Fast forward a year and I just listened to the “Leaving Massage, Episode 1” episode and was moved to write this review. Thank you for keeping it real. For speaking the truth. It’s so nice to hear people with similar perspectives out there while I am here by myself thinking about reopening my own private practice. I appreciate you, Healwell!!!!
Increasing awareness of diversity and inclusivity issues
I first started listening to this podcast in 2020 and followed through the name change. Great podcast to increase my awareness and my ability to respond more appropriately to diversity and inclusivity issues across population groups and always a pleasure to see in my podcast feed
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