About Me

Hi, I'm Greg. I’m a retired board-certified chaplain. I provide spiritual support to the dying and their families. I also support nurses, CNAs, and doctors. I also post on the Chaplain Greg Holden YouTube channel. Welcome to my blog.

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As a Buddhist chaplain, it is against my professional and religious beliefs to promote any religion or influence someone's existing beliefs. I'm not going to push any beliefs on you. Read More

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  • Every Invisible Creature

    Our neighborhood looks stable, secure, and safe. But every day, people line up at the food bank in the basement of a local church. These are the people who are invisible. You only see them when they are standing in line as you drive by. You don’t see them…

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  • Seven Blessings for Working With Dementia Patients

    My interview with Maureen McFadden prompted me to create a short tip sheet for anyone who works with dementia patients. This has got to be one of the most difficult caregiving tasks imaginable. Patients have quick mood swings, are easily frustrated, and don’t always recognize you. Download it for…

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  • The Injured Bird that May Change My Life

    According to The Law of One, there are seven densities of existence. Humans are in third density. Animals are second-density creatures, and plants, rocks, and other parts of nature are first density. That doesn’t mean that animals and plants are lower or inferior to humans. Based on the way…

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  • Free Downloads for Caregivers, Patients

    I’ve created sets of seven “blessings”—a better term than Tips or Suggestions or Best Practices, I think. These are from my own experience and that of my uncle, who cared for my aunt through years of treatments and doctor and hospital visits, and six months in hospice. Print them…

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  • Immersion in the Spirome

    In Florida last week, we were surrounded by a new microbiome of plants had never touched and air we had never breathed. And by a new Spirome as well. The Spirome is the spiritual world that surrounds us and that we can perceive and connect with only by being…

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  • War and Picnic Spots

    We sit on the beach in Florida. I listen to the kids laughing and watching pelicans dive. But the talk is of war. The words “nuclear weapons” are being bandied about. How can we relax when this is going on? My son in law, who is From Poland, is…

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