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ing Wit ith The Fear of

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Infection

Eugene Dufour Hospice Palliative Care Consultant – Bereavement Specialist – Trauma Therapist Email: edufour@tcc.on.ca

Two Focuses of Webin inar:

Focus One: Provide the Health Care Worker an opportunity to debrief and defuse from the suffering that you have been

• experiencing. The webinars will help you identify “Pre-Post

Traumatic Symptoms and helpful ways of coping with these reactions to long term suffering. Focus Two: Provide the Health Care Worker with added skills

• n how to support our clients, family members and our

coworkers during this time of multiple and complicated losses.

Session Two: Copin ing Wit ith The Fear of In Infection

– Identifying the fears of infection. – Coping with the fear of infection. – My brain will just not shut off. – Fear of infecting my family. – How will we cope with the possible death of coworkers?

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

Park rker J. . Palm lmer

Awareness of Fear

Awareness of Needs

Wis ise Min ind

Startin ing from a pla lace of fear:

• Hoarding
• Complaining
• Becomin

ing in infected

• Dis

isplaced anger

Fear

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Stop compuls lsively consuming food and news

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Lettin ing go of f contr trol

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Identify ify emoti tions

• Awareness
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knowledge good will ill

Fear Learning

Ris iski king Growth:

• Meanin

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Service to oth thers

• Empath

thy

• Compassion
• Self

lf-Compassion

• Gratit

titude

• Open to change
• Calm

lmness

Fear Learning Growth Not Sure

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say: 1.

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Vir irtual Goo

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Frank Ostaseski outlines the five central “invitations” — habit its of

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acceptance of

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eath th can an become a lo love-expandin ing, lif life-expanding for

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Fiv ive e In Invit vitations:

• 1. Don’t wait.

2. . Welc elcome every erything, push away noth

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3. . Brin Bring you

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le self elf to

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the e exp xperience. 4. . Fin ind a pla lace ce of

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est in in th the e mid iddle of

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thin ings.

• 5. Cultivate don’t know mind.

Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.

Park rker J. . Palm lmer