Hope for Every Season

This week Pamela is joined by friend Dr. Stephen Boatwright to talk about his path and journey to what he currently does today. With a background in primary care and anesthesiology, Dr. Stephen E. Boatwright of Palmetto Spine and Pain Care Consultants brings a unique perspective to pain management. Dr. Boatwright specializes in interventional techniques that help patients of all ages benefit from the latest options in modern medicine and pain relief. As a board-certified anesthesiologist, Dr. Boatwright and his team of pain management experts offer comprehensive care for those living with acute and chronic pain. Listen along to see how and why Doctor Stephen studied deeper into pain management after some pain that he himself went through. This is one you wont want to miss! 

 This week on Hope for Every Season we get a lesson on hospice from Hospice Nurse Penny. She teaches us that hospice is not only about the patient but also about educating the family who are surrounding and taking care of the patient. Penny was called to this profession at the age of 40 after experiencing a distant family member go through hospice care. She was so amazed by the hospice nurses compassion and work that it made her want to go into that field. Penny shares different stories and reasonings to have hope, and changing their hope for the end of life process. Pamela and Penny also speak about the topic of a “Good Death,” and what it means to both of them. Join us this week and learn more about this profession and stage of life.  Find Hospice Nurse Penny on Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube and Facebook to learn more about the topic of hospice care! 

This week Pamela sits down with friends Chuck and Marsha to talk about their journey to Jesus. Listen in to todays podcast as we talk about Marsha's journey with breast and uterine cancer, how Chuck found the lord while playing in the National Football League, and how they got through it together. We also talk about how to equip parents to help their children build a strong foundation in Jesus, while learning compassion and love for others.  The "more is caught than taught" is a way of parenting that can be taken from this sit down and used in any parenting home. Listen in, you will not be disappointed! 

In this episode of Hope for Every Season, Cristina Baker joins Dr. Pamela and gets deep. From speaking about Cristina's childhood of rough circumstances to finding the Lord later in life. We get deep into the journey of finding hope and turning life around. From a short time of homelessness that resulted in Cristina finding the Lord from the kindness of a loving church going family, and from her first conversation with God in the back of a cop car, we take a journey to see how God showed himself and quickly changed Cristina's life. Press play and listen to this miraculous journey of finding not only God but finding hope and spreading it not just through people but also spreading it through multiple social media platforms. Get to know Cristina, and follow along on her prayer journey on tiktok, Instagram, her website and order her book "Hope in 60 seconds." 

On this episode Pamela sits down to talk to an old friend Reverend Johnnie Moore. Johnnie was previously a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and president of Congress of Christian Leaders and is an American evangelical leader who with Rabbi Abraham Cooper wrote about the Christianity Crisis in Nigeria in the book The Next Jihad.  After a trip to Africa and first hand hearing about the stories of all of the persecuted Christians in Nigeria, Johnnie and Rabbi Abraham came to the realization that they needed to tell the world about this. Johnnie talks with Pamela about these stories and shares that the most important things we can do about this is share and spread these happenings to fellow Christians. As Johnnie states to Pamela "it begins with you." Please listen and share this episode to get the word out about the awful things happening to our brothers and sisters in Christ. As well as use the resources below to learn about how you can help.  You can also find and follow Johnnie on twitter to keep up with what is currently going on. Congress of Christian Leaders The Persecution Fund Open Doors International Voice of Martyrs The Jonah inheritance

Today I had the privilege of speaking to the founder of Project Mindful, Jacquie O'Malley.  We dive in on developing the tools to teach humans how to love themselves and how to focus on the here and now. Learning that once we recognize, understand and manage our own emotions, we the have the ability to recognize and influence the emotions of others. This podcast felt like a therapy session and I am so grateful I got to speak to a fellow yogi that is doing so much to help not just the minds of our youth, but also the teachers that are inspiring them. You can find more information about Project Mindful at ProjectMindful.org and find Jacquie on Instagram at @jacquie.omalley and also join in on her Facebook group for free Mindfulness Mondays meditations, Mindfulness with Jacquie. 

Dr C, a noted Vietnam war hero, and author of the book "making a believer out of a doubter," started his medical career as a Triage Officer in the Vietnam war after only medical school and a year of a rotating internship. He always liked the ER but was in now way prepared for what he was seeing. After a week of seeing over 200 mamed kids, he was sure that he was supposed to be there but continued to hope and wish for the days to get brighter.  After the war Dr. C. had a tragic accident involving a tractor on his farm and became paralyzed. Dr Pamela and Dr C. talk about how in his darkest hour he became a believer and hope truly came into his life. This story is one of the most inspirational and heart wrenching stories I have had the pleasure of hearing first hand. Join us today to listen to the story of this courageous man and  how his journey brought him, unexpectedly, to his strong faith. 

After losing her dad unexpectedly at ten years old, Sydney speaks to the importance of allowing and aiding children in processing grief. At 16 Sydney began speaking to children throughout her community and around the nation encouraging them to understand and talk through their grief following childhood loss. Now, as a 27 year old, Sydney is a practicing lawyer working as an advocate and fighting for hope in juvenile justice. 

Linda Manley, an emergency nurse practitioner who has studied near-death experiences for 30+ years and has presented her findings at several national conferences. What she learned about near-death phenomenon fundamentally altered her viewpoint on death - her intent is to share this information with both the public and health care community. Linda shares encouragement to help you faithfully face your fears revolving around death.  She shares her personal experiences with death and scientific explorations of near-death experiences.

Tune into this week's conversation with Dr. Pamela and Dr. Jennifer Bute. Jennifer was a highly qualified senior doctor in a large clinical practice, whose patients included those with dementia. Then she began to notice symptoms in herself. She was finally given a diagnosis of young-onset dementia in 2009. After resigning as a General Practitioner, she resolved to explore what could be done to slow the progress of dementia. The aim of her message is to help people who are living with dementia and give hope to those who are with them on the dementia journey. Her important insights are that the person 'inside' remains and can be reached, even when masked by the condition, and that spirituality rises as cognition becomes limited.

Sometimes there are seasons of life that are so hard, that you cannot find hope in the midst of them. Jodi, Pamela, and the Winterhalters recall walking through this season during a trying time in the couple's lives. Riney and Terri Winterhalter discuss finding a "hope bridge" in one another, their family, and their community. Riney dives into walking alongside his wife during their trying times and navigating feelings of helplessness and depression through minsdiagnosises and the long-term affects of brain tumors.

Tune into Episode 4 with Dr. Pamela, Jodie, and Rachel Awtrey.  Rachel is the host of the Behind the Bliss, a top-rated podcast, which creates space for women to share stories and their reality of what life is really like behind the bliss so that others might experience an “oh yeah, me too” moment. Rachel is an Air Force wife to her husband who serves as a pilot and loves to share her adventures and revelations God shares with her through these experiences. Rachel shares about her emotional journey from grief to peace through multiple losses and that even in the "uncomfort," she has found that she can lean on the ultimate Comforter. Dr. Pamela, Jodie and Rachel discuss how you can hold grief and hope at the same time.

Today's podcast dives into overcoming childhood trauma and loss to find inspiration, growth and hope with Amy Wolff. Jodie and Amy both discuss their loss of siblings and how that has impacted their purpose and missional mindset. Amy Wolff is President of Distinction Communication, Inc, a speaker coaching firm out of Portland, OR. Amy is also a TEDx speaker coach for TEDxPortland, one of the top five TEDx organizations in the world. In May 2017, Amy accidentally began a global movement of spreading hope and love, which became the Don’t Give Up Movement, and shares the inspiring story in her book Signs of Hope. 

Join Dr. Pamela and Jill Waterman as they share sources of hope and encouragement, even in our final season of life. In a season that often feels full of despair, Jill shares helpful resources to bring hope to death.

Join Dr. Pamela, the Good Death Doctor, and her co-host Jodie Wert on a journey to find hope for your health, words for your weariness and faith for your fears. Episode one introduces the hosts, Dr. Pamela and Jodi Wert as well as their intentions of the podcasts.