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#IJustShowedUp

Meet our Keynote Speaker Yvonne HeathYvonne is the founder of Love Your Life to Death and the #IJustShowedUp movement. As “Canada’s Proactive Living Consultant,” Yvonne teaches community how to Just Show Up for themselves and others so they are empowered and resilient when grief and life’s challenges arrive. What to Expect Exhibitors, speakers, resources, liveContinueContinue reading “#IJustShowedUp”

Compassionate Hamilton Aims to Get Us Talking About Death and Dying

Organization is hosting its second annual Circle of Friends event to bring together local resources available to patients and families. Original article by Meredith MacLeod published in Hamilton City Magazine on October 28, 2024. Dying is a fact of life but even the healthcare system struggles to really talk about it, says a family physicianContinueContinue reading “Compassionate Hamilton Aims to Get Us Talking About Death and Dying”

Talking About the End: Compassionate Conversations Made Easier with Dr. Erin Gallagher

Circle of Friends: Dr. Erin Gallagher joins Good Shepherd Podcast The Fold to talk about Compassionate Hamilton, a network that encourages conversations around death and dying and how we can help each other live well to the end. Click below to listen to the podcast below. Connect with Good Shepherd online:Web: https://goodshepherdcentres.ca/Instagram: @goodshepherdhamilton

Circle Of Friends

2nd Annual Compassionate Hamilton event will focus on how community can help those with serious illness live well to the end. Following a successful inaugural event, Compassionate Hamilton is returning this fall with a focus on the role community can play in helping those in palliative treatment live well. The 2nd annual event is beingContinueContinue reading “Circle Of Friends”

Living in the Gap

An honest look into how death, dying, loss, grief and bereavement are experienced in Hamilton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqlGX_Eic3U At Compassionate Hamilton’s inaugural event, we spoke to these experts to find out how Hamilton can become a more compassionate community. Panelists Dr. Sammy Winemaker and Maggie Civak, The Waiting Room Revolution Podcast Jammy Lo – Keeping Six, HamiltonContinueContinue reading “Living in the Gap”

New network hopes to create conversation around death and dying in Hamilton

Original article by Fallon Hewitt published in The Hamilton Spectator on October 30, 2023. An event hosted by Compassionate Hamilton is hoping to spur a city-wide conversation surrounding death. But it’s not a discussion that would stop at mortality, said Dr. Erin Gallagher, a local palliative care physician and organizer with the newly formed network.ContinueContinue reading “New network hopes to create conversation around death and dying in Hamilton”