When you\u2019ve compassionately aided people leave the planet for 30 years\u2014helped them be comfortable, reduced their pain and listened to their words\u2014what emerges is not just a way of dying, but also a way of living<\/strong>. That\u2019s what Becki Hawkins discovered in her uplifting and beautiful new book, TRANSITIONS: A Nurse\u2019s Education About Life and Death.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n She’ll also discuss how we can help those who are dying go with grace, peace and love.<\/p>\n First offered in her regionally-syndicated newspaper column Beyond Statistics<\/em>, Hawkins\u2019 stories so resonated with the community that she wanted to share them via her book. She began the column shortly after she first started caring for the terminally ill, and was overwhelmed with emotion.\u00a0 It was her husband that suggested she start keeping a journal to release those emotions, and from those first scribblings, her column was born.<\/p>\n The time spent at the bedside while giving someone care with Hospice created the opportunity for a patient to tell Becki his or her story.<\/p>\n Becki, who is a sought-after speaker today, will make you feel as if you have shared these enlightened moments.\u00a0 She\u2019ll bring to life the woman who came to chemo in her mink coat,\u00a0 the man who saw angels, the many who had Near Death Experiences, the sisters who laughed until they parted, the SOB who turned out be a gentleman, and her brother who taught her that redemption and courage can be profound after years of dissipation.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/BeckiHawkinsPHOTO-119x150.jpg\")
Joining Amerika Now during the first hour of the show is author, newspaper columnist, and 30-year Oncology\/Hospice nurse Becki Hawkins<\/strong> to discuss what the dying can teach the living.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TransitionsBOOKCOVER-92x150.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
Hawkins, who spent the heart of her career as an Oncology and Hospice nurse in Oklahoma, will offer tenderly-rendered recollections of those experiences that stayed with her\u2026those that touched her heart, took her breath away, and opened her to a greater wisdom.\u00a0 And it’s that wisdom that she will share with us\u2014how we can live better, more richly, more wisely and with greater love before we, too, transition\u2014and look back to wonder what we missed.<\/p>\n