Blog Posts

A selection of writing by Georgina Langdale. You can find more on Substack

What do you do when the Doctor calls - and you don't have a plan

No matter how hard it may be to get a loved one to talk about what they want, while they can, it is easy compared to the agony of having...

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A Woman for our Times - podcast interview

A conversation about how a 12th century mystic can give us so many ways of navigating life in today's world.

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The Gathering of Things

Her hair falling to the floor. Our tears and awe.

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Reconnecting Māori to traditional EOL customs

I spoke with Dr. Tess Moeke-Maxwell (Ngāi Tai, Ngāti Porou), is lead researcher on Pae Herenga, which was a three year study on traditional Māori end of life care customs...

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Ten Ways to Care

A few days ago, someone asked me what advice I would give to someone who was about to lose someone. Here are ten suggestions I have based on my own...

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Compassion is not for the faint-hearted

How can we be truly compassionate if we have not explored our own responses to the very things we wish we could run away from?

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Finding our light again

It's OK not to be strong all the time.

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Buddha and Einstein in the Garden

I picture Einstein in the garden seeing forms, patterns, these extraordinary mathematical equations of grace, circles of life and death and life again.

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