Keri Brenner
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398 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Apr 2020
last heard Feb 2023
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I will take the pager from my trainees and say, put your phone on silence.
I'm taking the pager because I want you to be able to create this space.
That sort of does bring
into the third active ingredient of therapeutic presence, which is creating a holding space.
And that's another key ingredient of our work, where we actually hold what we are hearing and what we are receiving.
We hold this distress in a way where people feel heard and they feel understood.
And we model how to bear these things while still staying intact, while still staying whole.
We model how you can hear and receive these things without falling apart.
So in this way, we actually become containers of the intense affect and emotional turmoil that might feel uncontainable to the people around us.
And a lot of folks have written about this.
I know that there was a JPM article called Therapeutic Holding that came out in February by Linda Emanuel, Vicki Jackson, Leah Rosenberg, and myself, where we wrote about this dimension of our work within palliative care, creating a holding space.
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that patients go through this roller coaster of emotions with serious illness where, you know, I was with a patient just this week who had metastatic pancreatic cancer.
We were talking about him going home on hospice one moment and he knew he had weeks to live.
And then the next moment he's talking about wanting to see his daughter graduate from college in three years.
And we have this ability to
hold that, hold all of those hopes, worries, fears, emotions with patients.
And we know that these are normal reactions.
It's a normal part of the process of integrating serious illness into our life.
And the ability to be present with that with patients is the holding space that we create with them.
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