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PalCare

PalCare has been providing Hospice Palliative Care education and training to non-medical healthcare

07/28/2025

I hope
Yesterday reminds you how strong you were
Today proves you how capable you are, and
Tomorrow tells you how fantastic you can be. •

07/25/2025

PalCare hosted a Kintsugi Bowl workshop in June with
What a wonderful session filled with compassion, empathy and healing. One of our participants sent us this follow up email that sums it all up.
“I want to acknowledge how meaningful and tender the Kintsugi Bowl Workshop was to attend. Rami Shami presented and shared in such a personal and guiding way. The words, The Art of Precious Scars really captures it up. I would encourage you to share this workshop again. Others would benefit from the gifts of it.”

The Course at The Centre

07/24/2025

THE GRATITUDE ADDRESS:
Learning from the Land
The Gratitude Address is an ancient Indigenous practice of recognizing what has freely been given us. Anita will share from her life experience and ancestral knowledge as a Mohawk woman. Through reflection and discussion, create your own message of gratitude that you can incorporate into your daily life.
Anita Nakou lives, learns and grows by participating in both the natural world and in her cherished community of Newmarket, Ontario, established on the territories of many Indigenous Nations. Situated in central York Region, Anita finds herself in a strategic location to honour her grandmother's Mohawk ancestry among the many other global Nations represented here. She does this through educating herself and others on such practices as gratitude, tending gardens, indigenous ritual, and interconnected living. Anita has her B.A. in Indigenous Studies and B.Ed. from Lakehead University and lives with her husband and three teenage daughters.
Date: Thursday, August 14, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Margaret Bahen Hospice
635 Queen Street, Newmarket
Cost per Session: $20.00

07/23/2025

Honoring Our Animals: 365 Meditations for Healing after Pet Loss by Beth Bigler
Grieving the loss of your beloved pet can be one of the most devastating and disorienting experiences of your life. When the absence feels unbearable, Honoring Our Animals offers more than solace. It provides a daily space for remembrance, healing, and continued closeness.
This book is a refuge—a compassionate companion where heartache is met with understanding, and your bond transcends the physical. Through meditations, affirmations, and intentional practices, this guide offers a structured yet flexible path to move with your emotions, allowing love—not loss—to shape your journey.
Following the natural rhythms of the year, Honoring Our Animals moves through the seasons—New Beginnings, Awakenings, Abundance, Release, and Celebration and Reflection—offering gentle support through the ever-changing landscape of mourning. Each section invites you to engage with your emotions through inspiring prompts, contemplative exercises, and creative connection. Each day, you’re encouraged to cherish your beloved through simple yet meaningful moments—quiet reflection, written expression, and sacred acts that nurture your heart and spirit. This book doesn’t ask you to “move on” but instead affirms that devotion endures, and grief deserves space.
Honoring Our Animals redefines grief as an ongoing relationship rather than a finite parting, helping you recognize that your bond evolves, even in absence. It provides gentle tools to steady you in sadness, deepen your sense of closeness, and bring glimpses of peace, even on the hardest days.
Written by renowned pet loss grief counselor Beth Bigler, this book embraces language that honors your lasting tie—using “beloved” instead of “pet” and “transition” instead of “death”—because love never leaves. It also includes a feelings wheel and guided invitations to help you name and validate the full range of emotions that arise in pet loss: longing, guilt, loneliness, questioning, purposelessness, fear, anger, anxiety, shock, helplessness, and sadness.
Grief isn’t meant to be faced alone. Whether your goodbye was sudden or expected, recent or years ago, this book will meet you where you are offering reassurance, comfort, and a way to keep your relationship alive.
• If you feel lost in sorrow, this book is here to hold you.
• If you long to honor your beloved, this book will walk beside you.
• If you need a sign that love never leaves, this is it.

Honoring Our Animals

07/22/2025

Come and join the conversation, share your voice on topics that can include palliative care, grief and bereavement, organ donation, MAID, Advanced Care Planning and Self Compassion. We start the conversation by discussing videos, TED talks, podcasts etc. that we have shared with you to watch and listen to prior to the session.

07/21/2025

“Our days are happier when we give people a piece of our heart rather than a piece of our mind”
—Unknown

07/18/2025

“When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be toward others.”

–Eda LeShan

07/17/2025

Braiding Sweetgrass: A Path for Connection is an opportunity to learn about Indigenous Culture, contribute to a discussion of the importance of the Seven Grandfather Teachings in Anishinaabe Tradition, and participate in the braiding of sweetgrass for you to bring home as a reminder and fragrant memory of our time together. Anita Nakou, a Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River will guide us through this 90-minute workshop with the hope of bringing understanding and increased awareness of our common ties as humans who share life on this land.

07/16/2025

My Grief Comfort Book: Creative Activities to Help Kids Cope with Loss and Keep Memories Alive by Brie Overton

Help children deal with the loss of someone special through activities and creative art therapy projects. Includes stickers, coloring sheets, keepsakes, and comfort cards.
Whether a child has lost a grandparent, a pet, or an important person in their life, My Grief Comfort Book offers them space to process their emotions through hands-on art, play, and storytelling.
The activities in this book are designed by author Brie Overton, the clinical director at the Experience Camps for grieving children. My Grief Comfort Book invites kids to take a creative break from the heaviness of their loss. As they draw, paint, share a story, or play a game, they build coping skills, manage their emotions, develop resilience, and make peace with their grief.

07/15/2025

Death Café – July 30th In Person at Doane House Hospice

A Death Cafe is a group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group, not a support group or counselling session.
It’s a respectful, life-affirming, thought-provoking conversation about a topic that is often shied away from. For more information email cflynn@myhospice.ca or register at https://www.mypalcare.org/workshops

07/14/2025

“A person becomes 10 times more attractive not by their looks but by the acts of kindness, love, respect, honesty, and loyalty they show.”
― Unknown

07/11/2025

When asked if my cup is half -full or half-empty, my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup. - Sam Lefkowitz

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