In recent years, science has begun confirming what many ancient traditions have long understood: the body processes far more of our experience than the thinking mind alone.

We also now know that the brain has an extraordinary ability called neuroplasticity, the capacity to literally rewire itself through repeated experience.

Somewhere along the way it became a word people recoil from — heavy, final, almost taboo. I understand why. When hospice enters the conversation, it brings reality with it. It sits close to words like terminal, and that can feel like too much to hold all at once.