{"id":2247,"date":"2020-05-29T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/?page_id=2247"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:44:32","slug":"spirit-of-maryville-2020-alison-tompkins-cole","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/spirit-of-maryville-2020-alison-tompkins-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of Maryville 2020: Alison Tompkins Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/05\/Alison-Cole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/05\/Alison-Cole-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alison Cole\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/05\/Alison-Cole-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2020\/05\/Alison-Cole.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Infusing joy into a person\u2019s final days is a passion for Alison Tompkins Cole, MT-BC. A graduate of Maryville\u2019s Music Therapy program, she works with patients and families of BJC Hospice and Evelyn\u2019s House hospice facility to foster connections through music while also relieving patients\u2019 pain and anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>Cole\u2019s work may begin by matching the rhythm of her guitar with one patient\u2019s anxious breathing, gradually lulling her into a peaceful slumber. A more alert patient may request a song. In one instance, two daughters joined their dying mother to sing a rendition of \u201cAmen,\u201d using drums and sandwiching the words, \u201cWe love you, Mama\u201d between repeats of the chorus.<\/p>\n<p>Cole recently instituted the Heartbeat Project, a program in which a patient\u2019s recorded heartbeat becomes part of a song their family can cherish after they\u2019re gone. She feels fortunate that she spends her professional life in close communion with families at such pivotal moments. \u201cI love helping people and I love music \u2014 and I can\u2019t believe I get paid to do this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharing-default-minimal post-bottom\"><div class=\"nectar-social default\" data-position=\"\" data-rm-love=\"0\" data-color-override=\"override\"><div class=\"nectar-social-inner\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"nectar-love\" id=\"nectar-love-2247\" title=\"Love this\"> <i class=\"icon-salient-heart-2\"><\/i><span class=\"love-text\">Love<\/span><span class=\"total_loves\"><span class=\"nectar-love-count\">0<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class='facebook-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-facebook'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='twitter-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Share this'> <i class='fa icon-salient-x-twitter'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='linkedin-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-linkedin'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='pinterest-share nectar-sharing' href='#' title='Pin this'> <i class='fa fa-pinterest'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Pin<\/span> <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infusing joy into a person\u2019s final days is a passion for Alison Tompkins Cole, MT-BC. 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