Are You Interested In How Whole Person Care Can Help Us With Pain And Dying?\n\n\n\nDo You Work With Others In Pain And Find Yourself Burned Out?\n\n\n\nWant To Learn How Diana And Yael Practice Self Care As Therapists?\n\n\n\nJoin Us For And Interview With Palliative Care Physician Dr. Michael Kearney!\xa0\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this episode, Diana interviews Dr. Michael Kearney, a palliative care physician who takes an interpersonal, integrative approach to healing. Dr. Kearney shares with us how he has had to learn to "breathe underwater" and allow pain to move through him, and discusses his new book: The Nest in the Stream.\xa0\n\n\n\nMichael Kearney MD\xa0\xa0trained at St Christopher\u2019s Hospice in London with Dame Cicely Saunders, pioneer of the modern hospice movement.\xa0 He later returned to his Ireland as medical director at Our Lady\u2019s Hospice in Dublin.\xa0 In the early 2000\u2019s he moved to North America, and now lives and works in Santa Barbara, California.\xa0 Throughout his career, Michael has been interested in whole person care and approaches that combine medical treatment with the innate healing potential of body, soul, and spirit.\xa0 He draws on depth psychology, mythology, Buddhist philosophy, indigenous wisdom and Earth-based spirituality.\n\n\n\nMichael has published three books,\xa0Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing, and,\xa0A Place of Healing: Working with Nature and Soul at the End of Life, as well as many articles and chapters. His most recent book,\xa0The Nest in the Stream: Lessons from Nature on Being with Pain, offers a way of being with pain and suffering that is infused with mindfulness, nature connection, openness, and compassion.\n\n\n\nMichael is married to psychologist, meditation teacher, and author Radhule Weininger, Ph.D. They teach and write together and share six adult children between them.\xa0\n\n\n\nResources:\n\n\n\nDr. Micheal Kearney's website\n\n\n\nImage of the Nest in the Stream\n\n\n\nThe Nest in the Stream: Lessons from Nature on Being with Pain\n\n\n\nListen to meditations with Dr. Michael Kearney \n\n\n\nPalliative Care Consultants of Santa Barbara\n\n\n\nNational Hospice and Palliative Care Organization\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices