My beloved cat, Luna, was killed by a car in January of 2019. The shock and grief were enormous, but I’ve eventually found some healing. Here’s the story of her death and our ritual responses to it. [Read more…]
Keeping Someone’s Ashes in Your House
If you have someone’s ashes in your house, it’s probably for one of three reasons. First, you may be holding onto ashes because it’s the right thing for you to do. You recognize their spiritual significance, and you’re [Read more…]
How Do You Want to Die?
We’re all going to die, but we don’t often really consider the certainty of that statement. Given that your life is most definitely going to end, how do you want it to happen? There are two important parts to this question: How would you prefer [Read more…]
When Death Happens Before Birth
Energetically, the experience of parenting is solidified at the moment of conception, and the energetic contract between souls —mother, father, child, (and siblings if there are any)— may begin even before that. No matter how [Read more…]
The Challenge of Talking About Death
I have a bit of a bone to pick with how “The Secret” is often interpreted. Yes, there’s a relationship between how we hold things in our inner awareness, and what sorts of energies we can then receive into our lives, but it’s a more [Read more…]
What To Do With Someone’s Ashes?
Ashes matter, and it matters what we do with them. The ceremonies around a death are, among other things, designed to bring completion to a person’s mortal existence. Disposition of someone’s body/ashes is [Read more…]
The Grace of Deathbed Visitations
Just as it does at a birth, the veil between the worlds thins during a death, and the other side of the river can become more visible. “Deathbed Phenomena” is the official term for a collection of non-ordinary [Read more…]
The Problem with a Happy Funeral
The problem with trying to have a happy funeral is, that when someone we love dies, we aren’t happy, we’re sad. There can be parts of a funeral that have happiness. But when someone we care about dies, the normal and natural [Read more…]
The Ancestors of My Village
In 1903, 82 million tonnes of limestone broke off of Turtle Mountain and fell onto the town of Frank, Alberta. 115 years later, I gave a keynote speech at a ceremony to commemorate the event and the 90 people killed [Read more…]
My Teachers: Betsy Bergstrom
Betsy's teachings have impacted me in many ways, and I continue to study with her. Betsy's no-nonsense approach to the interrelationship between the worlds keeps her grounded in this reality and the others [Read more…]
What is Death Midwifery?
Death Midwifery is part of a huge social movement emerging around what I call “doing death better.” It’s driven by the Boomer generation, and it’s happening both inside and outside of mainstream healthcare and funeral institutions [Read more…]
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