Recovering Faster and Less Painfully from Ankle Surgery
A twenty-four year old professional dancer elects to have extensive ankle surgery including: right ankle arthroscopy (endoscopic joint surgery), removal of a loose bone fragment, modified brostrom lateral ligament reconstruction, and repair of the peroneal tendon rupture.
Sentient Care is incorporated into the care plan for both pre-surgical preparation and post surgical pain management.
Without belaboring the details of the Sentient Care work, the patient recovers months earlier than anticipated, and with …
Research Focus
We at Sentient Care hope to shed more light on the mysterious side of “states of altered consciousness” in order to make them more useful and less intimidating to patients,family members, friends, caregivers, and the community.
States of altered consciousness include states of confusion, high drama, aggressive behavior, delirium, dementia, and other remote states.
For patients and care facility residents this means the opportunity of knowing and experiencing themselves on their own …
A Case of Chronic Back Pain
A forty-two year old chief financial officer of a major insurance company is suffering from chronic lower back pain for the last five years.
After one hour of Sentient Care involving multi-level multi-channel experience of the symptom, she is pain free in the moment, and months later she reports that she remains pain free.
She says she had also described and demonstrated her Sentient Care work to her sister shortly after the …
Coma Work and Palliative Care
Coma Work and Palliative Care is an introductory communication skills manual for people living in delirium, dementia, coma, and end of life processes.
This is a definitive resource for communication techniques and care etiquette in these difficult and sacred situations.
Remote, minimally responsive states of consciousness do not equate with lack of sensitivity. On the contrary, people in these very far out remote states of altered consciousness can be very delicate and …
Coma and Remote State Directive
The COMA AND REMOTE STATE DIRECTIVE is a legal document; an advance directive, also known as a living will. The intention of this document is to implement your wishes if you are ever concerned with communication and decision making durIng confusion, delirium, stupor, coma, vegetative state, depression, catatonia, dementia, and other remote states of altered consciousness.
This document helps ensure that you receive verbal and nonverbal support for your awareness of …
Eldership: A Celebration
How to inspire stories, blessings, sacred space, dreams, beauty, and spiritual experiences ~ the treasures of eldership ~ from our seniors, many of whom are “stuck” in states of confusion, memory loss, high drama, delusion, delirium, dementia, Alzheimer’s, end of life processes, and even coma. They too often lack the awareness and communication skills needed to fluidly bring out their wisdom, experience, and treasures which are sorely need in our …
continue readingWords of appreciation
“He visitado su sitio y lo encuentro excelente. Soy medico especialista en Gerontologia y Geriatria. En estos momentos estoy tratando de verticalizarme en le tema de los trastornos cognitivos, en especifico las dementias. Su sitio web me es de gran utilidad.
Sin mas, agradecida.”
DRA. NIURKA CASCUDO
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“Thanks, Tom, for your precious work and love and sensitivity working with people at the ends of life in situations where normally they are …
Coma Work ~ One family’s experience with structural coma
A 35 year old man suffers a heart attack causing oxygen deprivation to the brain resulting in diffuse brain damage leaving him in a structural coma and persistent “vegetative state.”
The family is told there is “nobody home” and no hope of any degree of recovery. They are advised to “warehouse” him with a maintenance care order only.
Finding this medical advice to be unacceptable, the family retains Sentient Care for a …
Tom Richards
Tom Richards evolved from a corporate executive (BS in electrical engineering, Cornell University; MBA in marketing, University of Chicago; and CPA, University of Illinois) to a researcher, author, educator, publisher, and independent sentient care consultant, working with senior health issues, patient advocacy, and people in deep inner states of consciousness. He has studied, researched, and applied Process Work for the past twenty years. Tom uses his awareness abilities to follow …
continue readingHot Topics for Presentations, Workshops, & Training
ELDERSHIP AND AGING: A SACRED CAREER
Celebrating intergenerational awareness
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THE HEALING POWER OF AWARENESS FOR SURGERY AND REHABILITATION
How to recover faster, and less painfully using sentient awareness
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SOCIAL ACTION & SPIRITUAL HEALING
Facilitating patient, family, hospital, Medicaid, nursing home, and hospice processes
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ANTI-AGING: REVERSING ENERGY LOSSES
For persons interested in higher energy and
the spirit of youthfulness.
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DREAMING ALL DAY LONG
For persons interested in exploring their
life patterns and dreaming spirits.
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