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About joan trinh pham
Artist, Hospice Palliative Care Nurse (BScN) + Hand Analyst 

joan trinh pham (she/her) is a queer first generation settler. Her ancestral narrative includes escaping Vietnamese homelands to seek refuge on xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territory. She is practicing artist, modern palmist + hospice palliative care nurse. joan has a passion for expanding conversations to create safe, integrative environments for embodied souls + the nervous systems that power us. joan is committed to evolving death literacy for magical mortals.  She is known for her creative, innovative approach in her fields of practice including the use of modern palmistry as a tool for self-understanding and mindfulness.
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About Hand Analysis

Modern palmistry is a non-predictive language of analysis. It appreciates how one's unique genetic inheritance, including ancestral trauma in the form of energy blockage or veiled perception, crystallizes in the subconscious and expresses itself in the lines of the hands. In this lineage of palmistry, we examine the manifest code in your fingerprints to understand the expressions that your soul + meatsack can be attuned for maximum vitality, resonant expression + liberation.
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September 2022
Resiliency in A Time of Crisis

Interview with Farah Nazarali 
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February 2022
Heartbeat: The Pulse of Care Podcast
In Episode 3, Joan & Corinne discuss the distressing experience of present-day health care and practices to sustain working in demanding climates in spite of the systemic challenges.

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June 2018

Interview by Alicia Forneret
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January 2018

The Storytelling Show features women’s voices as a way to encourage women to voice themselves more widely. It provides a place where First Nations women, women of colour, and women’s voices that differ from the mainstream can be aired.​

Vanessa Woznow interviews Joan about how she found her way into the world of death, dying, palmistry and the influences of being a born to a first generation Vietnamese immigrant family.
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November 2017

My first published article!
What I Learned About Living From Working with the Dying
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October 2017

Episode 376: Confidence Through Burlesque with Joan Trinh Pham
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September 2017

Professional profile of hybrid artist, modern palmist + hospice palliative care nurse done by True Calling, a media company in Vancouver dedicated to sharing stories about people who have uncovered what they love to do.
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January 2016

Vancouver Is Awesome feature of work done by Tallulah
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December 2015

In this episode Joan shares her passion for supporting caregivers to provide care to elders who are near the end of their life. Joan teaches caregivers how to clearly identify and successfully navigate the physical, emotional and mental changes that occur in the last years of life. She is known for her innovative and compassionately effective approach including the use of hand analysis as a tool to expand self understanding and mindfulness.
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October 2015

Introduction to Hand Analysis:        My first 10 minute video introduction to this modality + what makes it different from traditional palm reading
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September 2015
Portrait + conversation by Tallulah, Vancouver-based photojournalist who has a passion for documenting lives + culture of people around the world.  Includes portraits of workspace + home studio
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May 2015
Interview + full video of hand analysis session led by coach for smart, sassy rebels Melissa Opie
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January 2015
Reflections of lessons learned from hand analysis from Sandra Garcia of Conscious PR
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November 2014

Contributing artist to BROAD Magazine (Issue 73) which is a Catholic feminist social justice Magazine published by the Women Studies + Gender Studies Department at Loyola University in Chicago.

This 5th annual issue features dozens of contributors discussing how religion, faith + spirituality intersects with social justice movements.
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April 2013
Vancouver's First Death Cafe

Notes on the first gathering hosted by joan trinh pham + Ross Waddell at Marche St. George
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