Reimagine Virtual Candlelight Vigil with Julie McFadden, RN
Reimagine has been hosting candlelight vigils since March 2020, the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to break down taboos and hold space for all that we've lost. This gathering features Julie McFadden, BSN, RN, a hospice/palliative care nurse with more than fifteen years of experience and author of the new book NOTHING TO FEAR: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully. Our other featured guest is Claudia Coenen: thanatologist, grief counselor, author, and Reimagine community collaborator.
At this vigil, Julie McFadden—known online as “Hospice Nurse Julie”—shares the valuable lessons she’s learned in her fifteen years as an RN in the ICU and in hospice. Expertly interweaving emotional insight and practical advice, her book NOTHING TO FEAR demystifies end-of-life care and addresses the stigma and fear around death and dying. Julie has over three million followers across social media. She has been featured in Newsweek, USA Today, the Atlantic, Business Insider, the Patient Story, and many other media outlets worldwide. She lives and works in California.
Claudia Coenen is a thanatologist and grief counselor, with certifications from Brooklyn College, the Association for Death Education and Counseling and the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition. Claudia’s background in music, dance and expressive art enables her to use creativity as a method for healing. In private practice, Claudia provides compassionate counseling to clients suffering from loss due to the death of a person close to them. She also works with non-death loss, including divorce, relocation, life transitions and terminal illness. Claudia’s interactive presentations focus on ways to express and process their loss, enhance personal resilience and discover how to live fully again.
Claudia is the author of Shattered by Grief: Picking up the pieces to become WHOLE again and The Creative Toolkit for Working with Grief and Bereavement: A Practitioner’s Guide, and the Karuna Cards, creative prompts for grief and difficult transitions. Her latest book, Seasons of Grief: Creative Interventions to Support Bereaved People includes her reflections on the life cycle of grief and includes chapters from 17 heart-centered therapists, end of life practitioners, artists and poets.
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About Reimagine
Reimagine is a nonprofit organization catalyzing a uniquely powerful community–people of different backgrounds, ages, races, and faiths (and no faith) coming together in the hopes of healing ourselves and the world. We specifically support each other in facing adversity, loss, and mortality and – at our own pace – actively channeling life's biggest challenges into meaningful action and growth.
