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I am a mother, partner, and social worker. I lived in DC for 56 years and now live in rural eastern Oregon, known as the high desert Oregon Outback. I provide psychotherapy in a primary care clinic. I knit, crochet, and garden. I worship in a progressive Episcopal parish in a sea of otherwise evangelical Christians. I am bisexual, and do workshops on LGBTQ lives and ways of being.
Area of knowledge and what I know well:
psychotherapy, caregiving, social service systems and how to be an advocate within them, LGBTQ mental health, psychosocial aspects of physical challenges.
Bio
Social worker living in eastern Oregon. I provide psychotherapy in a primary care clinic. I'm bisexual, and do LGBTQ workshops. Very knowledgeable in Caregiving – come find me there!
Certificates/Awards
Master of Social Work 1988

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Hey there, Stephen. So you are in Utah, I take it. Are you by any remote chance LDS? One thing that is absolutely sure is that Mormons take excellent care of their own. That's one thought.        Another is, you've been hospitalized a couple of times...
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Great suggestions! what i would add is that hospice groups often have a bereavement group for the family members of people who were in home hospice care, and they will welcome community members even if the person who's passed was not in hospice care....
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Dear Walking Woman. What a wonderful “nom de community”. Your feelings about wrapping up loose ends and ‘separating’ yourself from you husband by changing the bank account situation, for example, sounds perfectly normal to me. You are you and no long...
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Radically different, isn't it? You did so many things as a couple, I bet, although you also had different things you did on your own. Part of the awkward phase of regrouping after the death of a spouse is finding out who will be your friend by yourse...
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 Hi Tina,   Thank you for telling us about your wonderful marriage to your husband. It sounds like a marvelous connection. And now you are 3 years out, and still feeling the absence of him very sharply.   There is no timeline or deadline or calendar ...
JaneCares 09-08-2025 03:46 PM
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Hey there, Stephen. So you are in Utah, I take it. Are you by any remote chance LDS? One thing that is absolutely sure is that Mormons take excellent care of their own. That's one thought.        Another is, you've been hospitalized a couple of times...
JaneCares 12-04-2025 07:52 AM
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Great suggestions! what i would add is that hospice groups often have a bereavement group for the family members of people who were in home hospice care, and they will welcome community members even if the person who's passed was not in hospice care....
JaneCares 11-15-2025 01:56 PM
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Dear Walking Woman. What a wonderful “nom de community”. Your feelings about wrapping up loose ends and ‘separating’ yourself from you husband by changing the bank account situation, for example, sounds perfectly normal to me. You are you and no long...
JaneCares 10-23-2025 03:21 PM
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Radically different, isn't it? You did so many things as a couple, I bet, although you also had different things you did on your own. Part of the awkward phase of regrouping after the death of a spouse is finding out who will be your friend by yourse...
JaneCares 09-21-2025 02:41 PM
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 Hi Tina,   Thank you for telling us about your wonderful marriage to your husband. It sounds like a marvelous connection. And now you are 3 years out, and still feeling the absence of him very sharply.   There is no timeline or deadline or calendar ...
JaneCares 09-08-2025 03:46 PM
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Hey there, Stephen. So you are in Utah, I take it. Are you by any remote chance LDS? One thing that is absolutely sure is that Mormons take excellent care of their own. That's one thought.        Another is, you've been hospitalized a couple of times...
JaneCares 12-04-2025 07:52 AM
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Great suggestions! what i would add is that hospice groups often have a bereavement group for the family members of people who were in home hospice care, and they will welcome community members even if the person who's passed was not in hospice care....
JaneCares 11-15-2025 01:56 PM
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Dear Walking Woman. What a wonderful “nom de community”. Your feelings about wrapping up loose ends and ‘separating’ yourself from you husband by changing the bank account situation, for example, sounds perfectly normal to me. You are you and no long...
JaneCares 10-23-2025 03:21 PM
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Radically different, isn't it? You did so many things as a couple, I bet, although you also had different things you did on your own. Part of the awkward phase of regrouping after the death of a spouse is finding out who will be your friend by yourse...
JaneCares 09-21-2025 02:41 PM
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 Hi Tina,   Thank you for telling us about your wonderful marriage to your husband. It sounds like a marvelous connection. And now you are 3 years out, and still feeling the absence of him very sharply.   There is no timeline or deadline or calendar ...
JaneCares 09-08-2025 03:46 PM
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