Blink of an Eye, a new podcast with Louise Phipps Senft, explores stories of trauma, loss, awakening, and epiphanies. Ms. Senft recounts her experience navigating a life-changing accident that rendered her son, Archer, paralyzed from the neck on down, and expands the story with interviews of those behind the scene. Told through real journal entries and inspiring guests, Blink of an Eye will inspire you to explore the true nature of our relationships and interconnectedness in the face of an event that changes everything.
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Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
#167 - Preparing a Family for Another Transition
Despite Continued Setbacks, We Move Forward
Guiding a family through a traumatic event requires compassion, empathy, and a delicate balance of support and engagement. When faced with profound grief, it is crucial to provide a safe space for open family dialogue, together in family meetings. Acknowledging wrongs and supporting forgiveness can be powerful choices in the emotional healing process, allowing individuals to release the weight of resentment to foster their own personal growth. However, forgiveness is a deeply personal journey, and it can never be rushed nor forced. Patiently listening to each family member's unique experience of pain and loss helps create an atmosphere of understanding which further the journey of acceptance. As we close out season 3, Louise gives us rare glimpses into family conversations as her family makes another transition through Archer’s brave, harrowing journey of SCI recovery, moving from the halls of the Shepherd center to a begin a new chapter at the next hospital and rehab center Baltimore, Maryland.
In this episode:
Diane Festa, Dame in the Order of Malta, Atlanta Angel who cared for Louise so she could care for Archer.
Dr. Ray Talucci, the Chief of Trauma at Atlanticare Medical System in Atlantic City, NJ who provided profound words of wisdom in the last family meeting in the ICU.
Blink of an Eye is created by Louise Phipps Senft and co-produced by Louise Phipps Senft and Zera Bloom. Theme music is by Victoria Vox.
Blink of an Eye Podcast is sponsored by the Blink of an Eye Non Profit: a non-profit created as a national resource to help change the Spinal Cord Injury experience for families and medical teams across the U.S. Blink of an Eye provides a national team of SCI specialized doctors for expert opinions in the Golden Hours of SCI injury, a Multidisciplinary Family Support & Navigation Team for SCI families lead by SCI families for the first 30 days of crisis, and a National Resource Library of essential SCI information and trauma informed responses for the first hours and days after injury specialized for families, friends and SCI medical staff. Blink of an Eye also offers a Registry of Medically Unexpected SCI Recoveries. To find out more, visit www.blinkofaneye.org and donate to their Launch Campaign at www.givebutter.com/blinkofaneye
To find out more about Louise and this podcast, visit the websites www.blinkofaneyepodcast.com and www.BeingRelational.com.
To find out more about learning relational mediation skills for navigating hospital and medical conflict and trauma, visit the website www.BaltimoreMediation.com.
Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @blinkofaneyepodcast. Our Twitter is @blinkofaneyepod. Make sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
You can become a member of our Patreon community and see extra Blink of an Eye content and bonus episodes at: www.patreon.com/blinkofaneyepod.
To find out more about Archer and to see some of Archer’s artwork, check out www.slimeyard.com.
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Music in this episode is:
Dream Guitar by Frank Schroeter
https://filmmusic.io/song/7759-dream-guitar
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Ethereal Meditative Piano by MusicLFiles
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6292-ethereal-meditative-piano
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Horizon Flare by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4837-horizon-flare
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Emotional Piano Improvisation by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6199-emotional-piano-improvisation
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Angel Share by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3367-angel-share
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Soft Interlude by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7766-soft-interlude
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