This week, I was invited to share my story with Integris healthcare workers via a Zoom. I called the presentation “The Alchemy of Care at the Bedside” and focused on the powerful ingredients of “seeing,” “listening,” and “providing” in a deeper, different way. My goal was to encourage them to invite, enhance, and create a connection with another that can actually infuse extraordinary hope and healing to the one in the bed or by the bed. 

I shared many personal stories written on my heart and within the pages of Severed Sacredness of noticing these inner movements depending on the attitudes and practices at the hospital bedside with Jessie. Each encounter with a health caregiver would reveal an impact on my emotional wellbeing by opening my heart to a door of hope or a door of doom. These powerful ingredients help to embrace the fragile humanity of others and infuse a comforting hope with a supportive environment that promotes the important emotional care for the patient and their families. 

Seeing, listening, and provision are shifted to a different dimension by pausing to embrace the sacred in the other, to travel beneath the obvious—discovering the deeper need, the quieter cry, the desperate hope of the one in crisis. This type of shifting enables one to pause and lean into the sacredness of another to bring forth an infusion of extraordinary hope and healing beyond the technical care of our patients.  

What unlimited miracles exist within our abilities to see, listen, and provide for another! My prayer and hope is to have more opportunities to share this message with health care teams around the world! This powerful medicine could bring such hope to our broken health care systems and to our broken world and is found so beautifully demonstrated within the pages of Severed Sacredness: The Miraculous Journey of Jessie Boone. How do I get these books into the hands of individuals in the health care communities? How do I find more platforms to bring story into improving our patient care systems? I offer myself to you, God: “Here I am Lord, send me.”