Michael Kearney, MD, has more than 40 years of experience working in palliative care in Ireland, the UK, and the US. He is medical director of the Palliative Care Consultation Service at Cottage Health in Santa Barbara. His latest book, The Nest in The Stream: Lessons from Nature on Being with Pain, offers an ecospiritual model of self-care and resilience that combines nature connection and mindfulness meditation. Dr. Kearney also is the author of Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing, and A Place of Healing: Working with Nature & Soul at the End of Life. He teaches nationally and internationally.
