A Home Funeral for a Grandfather
We never left Richard that night. About two in the morning, we bathed and dressed his body. It was a beautiful, beautiful night. There was a chorus of frogs coming through the window, and moonlight.
When a doctor isn’t giving you a timeline, how can you know what to expect.
This is just so hard. I feel too much. Thanks for hearing me.
Thank you for everything. I honor your existence. I am a death doula and I am working with a woman in palliative care for a final stage cancer. She is taking palliative chemotherapy and is doing better, she has made her care planning and death planning but as day go by she physically she is…
Dear Sarah. Your work touches my heart. My question is about MAID, and more specifically about what happens to consciousness when it is administered. In other deaths I understand that dying is an organic process where the body knows what to do and where conscious slowly leaves the body from the root chakra to the…
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Dying into a Living World: Animism and Deathcare
This is one of those conversations that ranges far beyond the principles and practices of Sacred Deathcare, into how deathwork relates to larger cultural forces.
How to Talk to Young Kids About Death
Becoming curious about death is a normal developmental stage. Our role is to gently help children find a way to hold and be with this life experience, and to prepare them for the deaths that they will experience in their lives.
How To Find Healing at a Funeral, Rather Than Overwhelm
The intensity of emotion you need to process after a loved one’s last breath can leave you so overwhelmed that you’re not able to receive the healing the funeral has to offer.
Transform your Relationship with Life and Death
In this conversation, Julie jumps right to the interesting questions and many people have said that this is one of their favorite interviews.
Where, Exactly, is Heaven?
My mom told me about working as a travelling home economist in the early 1960’s. An elderly woman pulled her aside one day, and in all seriousness, asked her where heaven was.
Meeting our Mortality Well
Carina Lyall’s Becoming Nature podcast explores “ceremony, community, elderhood, expression, keeping it real, life and its medicine.”
The Archetype of the Deathwalker
Karen Wyatt is a retired hospice doctor, and her podcast, End of Life University, has been a mainstay of the holistic death movement for years.
My Healing Journey – April 29 – 2021
It was a windy day at the hospital today, as I had one final scan before my surgery at 10:30 tomorrow. I take the words of this dedication seriously, and pray for such wisdom, courage, grace, and compassion in this journey. After a big process of discernment, I’m having a lumpectomy + radiation, and I…
My Healing Journey – April 27 2021
A thousand thank-you’s for the beautiful responses to my announcements that I’m dancing with cancer again. I can’t tell you how meaningful your support is. I’m especially grateful for the women who shared their own cancer stories with me. I’m heading into surgery on Friday. I’m feeling optimistic, well-equipped, and confident in my surgeon and…
My Healing Journey – April 22 – 2021
Many, many thanks for all the love I’ve received after my recent post about my cancer diagnosis. It makes a huge difference to feel such support, and I appreciate it enormously! I want to share this update about my decision-making process, and what I’m learning about myself as I navigate it. It’s been a very…
My Healing Journey – April 18, 2021
I have some not-great news to share. After my journey with breast cancer in 2019, I thought I was out of the woods. Unfortunately, I have another tumor. The news isn’t good, but it’s not as bad as it could be. For that I’m very grateful. My lymph nodes look clear, the tumor is small,…