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Death Doula | Death Midwife Training | Death Healing Rituals

With Sarah Kerr, PhD, Death Doula and Ritual Healing Practitioner

The Problem with a Happy Funeral

Posted on June 6, 2018

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

Posted on April 30, 2018

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

Posted on February 24, 2018

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?

Posted on December 6, 2017

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…]

The Ritual of the Obituary

Posted on November 13, 2017

By not including this man in the obituary, the brother-in-law ritually dissociated him from his sister, and from the rest of his family, on both sides of the river. It was essentially a form of ritual shunning [Read more…]

Where, Exactly, is Heaven?

Posted on October 4, 2017

All her life, this woman had believed that God was a man with a white beard who lived above the clouds, which is exactly what she’d been taught in school and church. She tried to live a good life so she would go there when she died [Read more…]

Meeting Death as a Couple

Posted on September 16, 2017

The pressure of facing his death was putting an enormous strain on their marriage. When the tension surfaced, it was easy for them to believe that the stress and discomfort they were each feeling was caused by something the other person [Read more…]

Digging my Father’s Grave

Posted on August 21, 2017

There’s something deeply cathartic about passing the shovel from hand to hand, and carving out a spot for the one we love. At some primal level, people know how important this task is, and the sign we’re finished is not that [Read more…]

Birth Midwifery and Death Midwifery

Posted on July 4, 2017

I can’t tell you how many people have told me they thought they’d invented the term Death Doula or Death Midwife. They were thinking about how poorly we meet death, and then about how we’re better at meeting birth, and [Read more…]

Energetic Tools for Being with Grief

Posted on May 27, 2017

I can get very emotional about lots of things, but I don’t cry much when I’m working with families. I’ve developed some really helpful practices that allow me to stay present, even in situations of intense grief. [Read more…]

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