Patrice Rancour

Patrice Rancour, a psychiatric/mental health clinical nurse specialist, has practiced in the field of mental health for over 35 years. She has written extensively on the psycho-spiritual opportunities that our illness journeys open up for us. "Working with individuals who are facing death is a privilege and one of the most intensive ways to learn about how to live life to the fullest," she writes. She received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Ohio State University, has a private practice, and speaks frequently at conferences and symposiums on such subjects as spirituality and healing, courageous end of life conversations, complementary and alternative therapies, clinical strategies for working with altered body image disturbances, grief and loss, compassion fatigue, and many other related subjects. For more information, you can visit her website at www.patricerancour.com.