{"id":8845,"date":"2026-04-13T00:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=8845"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:34:30","slug":"shattered-assumptions-the-other-side-of-change","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/events\/shattered-assumptions-the-other-side-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Shattered Assumptions &#038; The Other Side of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Saturday, May 2, at 3:30pm, join us at the West Tisbury Library for a discussion with Susan Desmarais, retired grief counselor and end of life doula.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change: the parts of life we resist, we seek\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lifetime brings change. Anticipated or not our lives are impacted. How we respond, how our friends and community respond makes a difference. This discussion will offer insights into our reactions and our processing of the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drawing on insights from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shattered Assumptions<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Ronnie Janoff-Bulman and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Other Side of Change<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Maya Shankar, along with her experience as a counselor, Susan will lead a talk on how to better support our loved ones and fellow island residents.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 2, at 3:30pm, join us at the West Tisbury Library for a discussion with Susan Desmarais, retired grief counselor and end of life doula. Change: the parts of life we resist, we seek\u2026 A lifetime brings change. Anticipated or not our lives are impacted. How we respond, how our friends and community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-8845","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/8845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8845"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=8845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}