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About Joan Trinh Pham
Artist, Hand Analyst + Hospice Palliative Care Nurse (BScN) For over a decade, Joan Trinh Pham has worked as a nurse specializing in hospice + palliative care. She helps people + their loved ones navigate the unique challenges that emerge with a progressive, irreversible + terminal illness. Joan also teaches caregivers working with elders how to support the complex nuances of physical, emotional + mental changes that occur in the last years of life. Her expertise is focused on helping caregivers develop communication skills and enhance self-awareness so that they are better able to be effective at caring for others without sacrificing themselves. She is known for her creative, engaging, innovative + compassionately effective approach including the use of hand analysis as a tool to expand self-understanding + mindfulness. Joan's greatest passion is to expand death literacy for magical mortals. About Hand AnalysisHand Analysis is a modern form of ancient palmistry. It integrates Western and Eastern traditions of hand reading with a current understanding of neurobiology. Hand analysis is not predictive; it does not foretell the future. Instead, hands are used clearly appreciate a person's unique strengths, talents, challenges and epic context in life - a context that honours an individual as an embodied soul doing specific work to expand consciousness in this lifetime. It is a practical, tangible and precise tool to facilitate self-awareness and powerful self-actualization.
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January 2018The 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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December 2015In 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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November 2014Contributing 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. |