title: Medicine Wheel Wonderment Journal: Conscious Warrior (Keeper of the Earth) (Volume 2)
author: Jacqueline C Day
description: Jacqueline C Day, CFMW is the Co-creator of Accessing Heart Awareness - Aha! Moments with JC and an author, healer and facilitator of heart awareness, universal consciousness and possibilities. She is a natural Intuitive Empath trained in Reiki, Angel Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and the Peruvian Shaman practices. With curiosity she uses her experience, intuitive gifts, training, and the power of question to facilitate, guide and empower her clients to explore possibilities, choose consciously and move beyond the limitations of judgment holding them back from showing up in the world as the truth of who they are. Jacqueline offers private sessions and a variety of Present Junctures &amp; Possibilities classes and retreats. For information regarding private sessions, classes and retreats with Jacqueline: Facebook: www.facebook.com/ahamomentswithjc Blog:: accessingheartawarenessahamoments.wordpress.com
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  Contents
   
  Title Page
  Copyright Notice
  Dedication
  Epigraph
   
  Introduction
  1 • The Independent Self
  2 • Things Fall Apart
  3 • Dependence
  4 • Assistance
  5 • A Better Life
  6 • Letting Go
  7 • Hard Conversations
  8 • Courage
  
  Epilogue
   
  Notes on Sources
  Acknowledgements
  Also by Atul Gawande
  About the Author
  Copyright
  
   
   
  I see it now—this world is swiftly passing.
  —the warrior Karna, in the Mahabharata
   
  They come to rest at any kerb:
  All streets in time are visited.
  —Philip Larkin, “Ambulances”
  
   
  Introduction
   
  I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t
  one of them. Although I was given a dry,