Couverture de 87 - You Are Still Here and You Still Matter: Renata Helfman-Baron on Lipstick Angels, Palliative Care, and the Power of Presence

87 - You Are Still Here and You Still Matter: Renata Helfman-Baron on Lipstick Angels, Palliative Care, and the Power of Presence

87 - You Are Still Here and You Still Matter: Renata Helfman-Baron on Lipstick Angels, Palliative Care, and the Power of Presence

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Hands That Say You Are Still Here and You Still MatterThis is Renata Helfman-Baron's third conversation on Trust Your Innersense, and it may be the most profound one yet. Renata is the founder of Lipstick Angels, a national nonprofit that rolls a beauty and wellness cart right into hospital infusion centers while patients are hooked up to chemotherapy. Facials, aromatherapy to ease nausea, eyebrow stencils, scalp massages, a hand massage when someone is not ready for anything else. It began 14 years ago when Renata was caring for her grandmother through cancer treatment and realized there was nothing out there that looked like what she was imagining. So she built it herself. But today's conversation opens with something brand new. Lipstick Angels has just launched a pilot program at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, California, expanding for the first time into palliative care, rooms where people are actively dying and the goal is peace, not cure. The ribbon cutting was the day before this conversation. And the hospital chaplain, Pastor Pat, surprised Renata with a blessing he had written for the occasion, a poem addressed to the hands of the Lipstick Angels, and she reads it here in full. It is one of those moments that asks you to put down whatever you are doing and just listen.The Kindness of a Stranger Walking Up with an OfferingRenata has spent 14 years learning what it means to truly care for someone. And what she has found, over and over, is that the beauty part was never really the point. The point was the kindness of a stranger walking up to a person in a terrifying moment and offering something. A presence. An unhurried few minutes. A choice. She talks about why patience is the most important thing her volunteers are trained in, why the first visit sometimes means just sitting nearby and handing someone a lip balm, and why touching a person who is sick, frail, or frightened is something you have to earn slowly. She also shares something that took her years to fully understand: often the person going through treatment will ask the Angels to take care of their spouse or their daughter or their friend first, before themselves. Because watching someone you love receive care lifts the weight of feeling like a burden. Joanne shares a moment she witnessed at the infusion center where a woman asked the Angels to give her husband his very first facial alongside hers. Neither of them said much. They did not have to.Give Yourself Permission to Fall ApartRenata is honest in this final stretch of the conversation. She is carrying grief right now. A dear friend is in palliative care, and a woman who meant a great deal to her just died of brain cancer. She pulls from her library a book she returns to when things get heavy: Pema Chödrön's "When Things Fall Apart". And she says something simple that lands with real weight: we should teach children that it is okay to fall apart. That falling apart is not the end of strength. It is how you get back to it. She also reflects on what our culture still gets wrong about caring for people in crisis: that the system too often leaves patients confused and overwhelmed, navigating multiple hospitals and too many decisions alone, when what they need most is someone to say, we have you, you can take this off your list. That is what Lipstick Angels says, in its own quiet way, every single time it rolls through a door.Listen to Episode 14: Beauty With a Purpose: The Healing Mission of Lipstick Angels Listen to Episode 26: A Day Witnessing Love in Action with Lipstick Angels"When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chödrön Lipstick Angels WebsiteLearn More About Renata Helfman-BaronLipstick Angels Hospital Programs Become a Lipstick Angel Support Lipstick AngelsChapters00:00 Introduction and Welcome Back01:42 What Lipstick Angels Is and How It Began 05:47 A New Chapter: Expanding into Palliative Care at Sequoia Hospital 09:09 How the Call Came: A Friend's Facial That Changed Everything 13:57 A Blessing for the Hands of Lipstick Angels, Read by Renata 17:52 Care, Patience, and the Art of Just Showing Up 20:44 Why Caring for the Caregiver Changes Everything for the Patient 24:43 What Our Culture Gets Wrong About Caring for People in Crisis 32:11 Give Yourself Permission to Fall ApartLet’s chat! podcasts@innersensebeauty.com Join the Innersense™ Communityhttps://innersensebeauty.com/pages/newsletter-sign-up Let’s Stay Connectedhttps://www.instagram.com/joannestarkman https://www.instagram.com/innersenseorganicbeauty/ https://www.instagram.com/innersensepro/ https://www.facebook.com/InnersenseOrganic/ https://www.youtube.com/c/InnersenseOrganicBeauty Clean hair care & body productsUse code JOANNE15 to save 15% on first purchases at https://innersensebeauty.com/Want to elevate your salon? (New Pro Clean Color Line)https://innersensebeauty.com/pages/salonshttps://innersensebeauty.com/pages/education
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