Sharing your genius in hospice and palliative care

by Allie Shukraft, LCSWA, MSW, MATThis morning was like many on the weekends.  I got up before the rest of the humans in the house, fed the dogs and let them out while I tooled around in the kitchen. The room was, I'll be honest, a typical after-holiday mess, so it took me a few minutes to notice the small package that had come unannounced in the mail the day before.  It was addressed to me, like so many boxes had been in the weeks leading up to Christmas, but unlike those other boxes, I had no recollection of ordering this one.  I opened the package, eager to see what I had forgotten that I had ordered only to find a gift-wrapped package that had been totally unexpected.  What was inside was inspiration, something that got me up and typing even before making coffee -- a copy of Austin Kleon's Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered.So far I have only cracked this book.  I am still on the first concept, "you don't have to be a genius", but that one portion makes me want to get up and do, to make something and share it, no matter how simple. What this concept makes me think about is the growing fire that is hospice and palliative care.  Not only are those of us that practice this on the cutting edge of holistic medicine/care, but we are a growing, passionate voice gaining a larger audience every day. We learn something daily, sometimes even hourly in our work and I am starting to see those lessons out there for the worl...
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