Becky Sansbury, patient advocate

The Health Design Podcast

Becky Sansbury, M.Div., has spent thirty-five years focused on crisis care, working with individuals and organizations. Serving as head chaplain for Transitions LifeCare, a hospice and palliative care agency, she provided hands-on spiritual and emotional support for patients, families and colleagues. Simultaneously, she learned principles of dealing with crisis from an organizational perspective due to the intense team interaction required in hospice work. Becky followed that career with leadership in The Avadon Group, specialists in career crisis, working with displaced professionals during the 2008 recession. Distilling underlying principles of crisis response, stabilization, and resilience within multiple areas of disruption, Becky developed the After the Shock™ process. She speaks to national organizations, such as Blueprint Medicines, Fisher House Foundation, and Ronald McDonald House Charities®, providing them with fresh perspectives and new tools to supplement their work with individuals and organizations in crisis. In addition, Becky consults directly with medical and corporate leaders when personal or professional crisis disrupts their work. Becky’s book, After The Shock: Getting You Back On The Road To Resilience When Crisis Hits You Head On, was published in paperback and digital versions in 2015. Shortly after the book was published, Becky needed to use her own process. For five years Becky provided in-home, solo caregiving for both her elderly mother and adult daughter. That experience reinforced Becky’s dual conviction that regardless of the diagnosis, all good care is palliative and the greater the shock, the more crucial the need for comfort. Her mantra has become, palliative care for all people all the time. www.BeckySansbury.com