Considering the effect of despair, Rebecca Solnit said “We may be living through times of unprecedented change, but in uncertainty lies the power to influence the future. Now is not the time to despair, but to act…Hope is an embrace of the unknown.“ When Holly enters a home to hold space, she brings emotional nourishment to the living— the entire family— which includes the dying.

Resources mentioned in this podcast: Healing Heart to Heart, Art of Dying Institute, INELDA, Hospice, Early-Onset Alzheimer’s