“My sister is a client/patient of Hand to Heart, and is also dying of cancer. … Sometimes we (the family) listen, but we can’t hear, hear by can’t speak and speak in tones usually reserved for errant children. I apologize for my deferential tone but can’t seem to stop using it in my efforts to help. The massage therapist massages, soothes and seems to comprehend the delicate balance between today and perhaps tomorrow. (He) is encouraging, enabling and healing. He has the gift of understanding and contemplating the scary process of dying. He does not judge, criticize or promise. He revives Elizabeth’s true self, helping free her from the moment for only a short time, but what a priceless time it is. Thank you.” — Sister of a Hand to Heart Client
About Steve Gordon, Executive Director
Steve is a massage therapist who balances his work between The Hand to Heart Project and his private massage therapy practice in Hanover and Cornish, NH. He is also the co-author, with Dartmouth College professor Irene Kacandes, of the book, Let’s Talk About Death: Asking the Questions that Profoundly Change the Way We Live and Die