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About this week’s episode
I’m very excited about this week’s guest: Hospice Nurse Julie. I found her on social media, like many of her followers do, where she shares openly about death and dying. In Julia, I found another friend who is friends with death. In this episode, you will learn so much about what happens in the dying process and truly understand that there is nothing to fear, as it says in Julie’s upcoming book.
About this week’s guest
Julie McFadden, BSN, RN has been a nurse for 15 years. Julie is an experienced ICU and is now a Hospice/Palliative Nurse. Julie has been featured in Newsweek, USA Today, The Atlantic, and several other articles worldwide. Julie has been passionate about normalizing death through education to the masses using social media. Her TikTok has 1.4M followers, and you can find her on all social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube) at Hospice Nurse Julie.
- Website www.hospicenursejulie.com
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hospicenursejulie?si=AwrIGHxEq-mA68Lc
- TikTok: @hospicenursejulie
- Instagram: @hopsicenursejulie
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Julie’s upcoming book: Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully
- David Kessler: Visions, Trips and Crowded Rooms
- Barbara Karnes: The Final Act of Living
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What a wonderful conversation. Julie’s work normalizing death has honestly been such a gift to the grief support community. So many of the families I counsel are blindsided by the dying process because nobody prepared them for what it actually looks like, and that lack of preparation often compounds the grief afterward.
The point about anticipatory grief really resonated with me. I think people underestimate how much grief can begin before a death even happens, and how isolating that feels when everyone around you is focused on being hopeful. Giving people permission to grieve before the loss is so important.
Thank you for creating this space for these conversations, Nathalie. I run myfarewelling.com where we help people create meaningful online memorials, and I hear from families all the time that having a way to honor their person’s story helps them process the loss. Conversations like this one make the whole end-of-life journey a little less terrifying.
Dear Karen,
Thank you for your comment. I agree, Julie’s work is helping people understand the process of dying and hopefully makes it less terrifying.
It provides orientation and context for a time in which people are challenged, both those going through the process as well as those who support or accompany others.
Thank you for what you do, Karen.
Much Love, Nathalie