E1002 | EBOOK:

Nature Gave Us Butterflies:

A Family's Guide to End-of-Life Transitions, Standard Edition

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 Give your out-of-town family members access to this valuable resource instantly so they can understand the needs of their loved one who is dying.

Highlights and topics covered:

Part One covers Specific Symptoms and Issues:

• Pain Management: It’s Essential
• Decreased Food and Fluid Intake: Aren’t They Uncomfortable?
• Breathing Changes
• Confusion, Agitation, and Restlessness
• Skin Changes and Skin Care
• Changes in Elimination
• Socialization, Resolution, and Withdrawal

Part Two offers a Chronological Timeline, providing a gentle guideline

regarding “what to expect” as the patient’s health declines:

• The Emotions of Goodbye
• One to Three Months Before Death
• One to Two Weeks Before Death
• Two Days to a Few Hours Before Death
• When Death Has Occurred
• In tandem with the chronological timeline, we gently relate the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual changes to the metamorphosis of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. Using nature metaphors allows the gentle education that connects to all backgrounds, cultures, and religions.

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E1005 | EBOOK:

The Nature of Grief: Healing & Honoring the Seasons of Grief

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Our popular booklet on grieving is now available as an eBook! Give your out of town family members access to this valuable resource instantly so they can know what to expect from their grieving process.

 The Nature of Grief: Healing and Honoring the Seasons of Loss to educate and comfort those who are grieving and in your professional care. This eBook is not just information, but affirmation and comfort delivered to your clients in a soothing, gentle manner by using the nature metaphor of the changing seasons to understand the four tasks of grief and how we move through them. A touchstone for the bereaved, inclusive for men or women, this booklet details what is normal, natural, and necessary in the grieving process. The use of nature metaphors is a universal, non-threatening way to help everyone relate to and understand the grief experience.

Increase your agency's bereavement response by providing this unique, up-to-date resource. Use The Nature of Grief: Healing and Honoring the Seasons of Loss to address restlessness, sadness, anxiety, spiritual questions, anger, and confusion. Many call our booklet the “What to Expect” of grieving. Informative, gentle, and real, this eBook will become a staple in your bereavement tool kit.

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