We are one week away from the of the 11th Annual Cycle of Life Tour July 20th & 21st benefiting hospice care on Vancouver Island and we are deeply grateful to our 2024 team sponsors! Sponsors of the Cowichan Life Cyclers never tire of doing good, it’s just how they roll! Their willingness to support hospice […]
Cowichan Hospice Library: Staff Picks
At Cowichan Hospice, we have a library full of wonderful resources from a wide range of authors and experts. Every item was hand-picked because of its helpful insights and guidance for the grief journey. It is is available to staff, volunteers and clients. We add new books (fiction and nonfiction alike) and DVDs as they […]
Mindfulness Exercise
The goal of this exercise is to create within yourself and experience a similar body response to what a client who is afraid of grief feelings may experience. I encourage you to try to practice this from a place of curiosity about your internal body responses. Since we are mammals, there are predictable […]
A Daughter’s Journey through Love and Loss
This is my mom, Wynne Schafer. It was in 2011 when we first learned about her diagnosis of COPD and only a year later, a terminal diagnosis of lung cancer. We knew the road we were about to travel together wasn’t going to be easy – my dad, her husband, had passed away in 2004 […]
