Can You Die Happy?

12/18/18 • 27 min

What if you can actually have ease with grief? Dying Happy: The Gift of Choice is a book by Wendy Mulder about looking after someone who is dying and doing it with ease and gratitude.

The biggest tool for Wendy was, right at the beginning, she made the choice care for her mother with ease, without stress, and without getting caught up with all the things that might go on when someone is ill.

Listen to learn how to receive the gift of being with someone who is dying, experiencing gratitude each day through the tools of Access Consciousness and the the possibility of choice, which honors that person and their life.

Key takeaways

Wendy’s book, Dying Happy: The Gift of Choice, came about through her experience taking care of her dying mother
She made a choice in the beginning to go through the process with ease
Access tools helped her experience each day with gratitude, freshness, and enthusiasm
What if you didn’t have to go into sadness?
The choice that you give your loved one by being with them with no point of view and no judgement is honoring of them and their life

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What if you can actually have ease with grief? Dying Happy: The Gift of Choice is a book by Wendy Mulder about looking after someone who is dying and doing it with ease and gratitude.

Key takeaways

Wendy’s book, Dying Happy: The Gift of Choice, came about through her experience taking care of her dying mother
She made a choice in the beginning to go through the process with ease
Access tools helped her experience each day with gratitude, freshness, and enthusiasm
What if you didn’t have to go into sadness?
The choice that you give your loved one by being with them with no point of view and no judgement is honoring of them and their life

Resources:

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The Rise of the Unlikely Heroes

A hero is someone who saves the day, does great things, and inspires awe, but what does it mean to be an unlikely hero? And why do these heroes in particular inspire us so much?

Bret Rockmore, Rebecca Hulse, and Marilyn Bradford join host Katarina Wallentin to discuss how the characters from the stories and books we love help us by reflecting our own longing to choose something greater and our own ability to change the world.

Listen to understand how anyone can be an unlikely hero, and how even the smallest acts can make the world bigger. Heroism comes from getting out of your comfort zone and choosing something greater.

Key takeaways

What the bleep is a hero?
There’s a longing in everyone to move out of their comfort zone, and many of the books we love are about unlikely heroes who inspire us
What is stopping us from being heroes?
A true hero empowers others to be heroes

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Holiday Episode

This season is the time to read books. One of the most beautiful things about the holidays is the ability to sit down and throw yourself into the adventure of a book, into another world.

What if this holiday, you actually took the time to read a physical book with printed words and pages that you can hold onto?

Walk into a real bookstore, see which book you’re drawn to, and buy it. Happy holidays!