Beyond Surviving: Cancer and Your Spiritual Journey was named among the top 100 independently published books in North America in 2017. It also received the Silver Nautilus Book Award, which celebrates exceptional literary contributions to spiritual growth, conscious living, high-level wellness, responsible leadership, and positive social change. Nautilus award-winning authors include Brené Brown, Thich Nhat Hanh, Eckhart Tolle, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu. I am honoured to be included among such luminaries. Learn more about the awards at nautilusbookawards.com.

Provide all facets of interfaith spiritual and religious care to patients, families and staff in the cancer program, palliative care, and intensive care. Embody compassionate support and counselling throughout the illness trajectory. Practice integrative care for those suffering from existential and physical pain. Provide grief support to families and staff. Conduct presentations and workshops on spirituality and cancer, spiritual distress, compassion fatigue, and end-of-life care care. Enhance interprofessional practice with the psychosocial team. Facilitate advance care planning. Represent spiritual care at institutional, provincial and federal levels through committees and working groups.

On call spiritual care services provided for families in medical crisis including stillbirth, infant death, neonatal emergencies, and paediatric cancer care.

Provided all facets of spiritual care to Lutheran patients, liaison with area clergy, plan and conduct funerals, provide follow-up grief support.

Responsible for all facets of ordained ministry. Developed mission and vision statements, implemented outreach and service initiatives included parish nursing, a community garden, community kitchen, and a senior’s day program for respite care.