Authors Spotlight with Bruce McIntyre Parkinson Positive A Prescription for Hope artwork
Healing Ties

Authors Spotlight with Bruce McIntyre Parkinson Positive A Prescription for Hope

  • S3
  • 32:46
  • April 18th 2016

Join Chris MacLellan, "The Bow Tie Guy" for a friendly and informative conversation with author Bruce McIntrye. 

Bruce serves as the Executive Director of the Parkinson Foundation of Oklahoma.  He is the author of Parkinson Positive, Graceful Transitions, and Resilient Life. As a caregiver for his wife for the past 11 years, Bruce understands the world of chronic illness and caregiving.  He has led the Caregiver Fundamentals Project in Oklahoma City and served caregivers as a business, church, and non-profit leader. Bruce shares his expert guidance and warm humor with thousands of people each year and we are pleased to have Bruce join us for another episode of The Bow Tie Guy's Author's Spotlight. 

To learn more about Bruce and his creat work visit him online at www.BruceMcIntyre.com  

Chris MacLellan is the host of "Healing Ties" and the author of "What's The Deal With Caregiving" . 

To learn more about Chris and to see his 2015 Pulizer Prize Nominated Caregiving story visit http://www.thebowtieguy.com

Healing Ties

Beyond Caregiving...How do care?

How do we care for our family, friends, and the strangers we meet? How do we care for the community we live in?

How do we heal the physical, social, financial, spiritual aspects of our life and the lives of those around us?

We do this by creating Healing Ties!

By sharing their stories with host Christopher MacLellan, our guests reveal how they are creating Healing Ties in their community by their words, actions, and deeds.

Meet the Team

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Christopher MacLellan
Host

Affectionately known as “The Bow Tie Guy" in the vast network of family caregivers, Christopher MacLellen is the Author of "What's The Deal with Caregiving" and the host of Healing Ties podcast featured on The Whole Care Network.

The story of Chris and his deceased partner, Richard Schiffer was chronicled in a 2015 Pulitzer Prize nominated story “In Sickness and In Health: A Couple’s Final Journey” about their journey of caregiving. Seen by over 500,000 people world-wide the story told of the challenges that LGBT partners have in dealing with the medical and legal system, but it also told of the love and joy that Richard’s last years had on their relationship.

Chris' masters degree thesis, Caregiving, Stress and its Impact on the Work Place was accepted by the faculty at Gonzaga University in 2016 where he earned a masters degree in Leadership and Communication.

Chris founded the Whole Care Network in 2016, presents regularly on topics that impact family Caregivers and now is Aging Gayfully after caregiving has ended.