Voyage of Soul

22/08/2019

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11/06/2019

Join us in Denver on July 27th for a full day workshop on Home Funerals and Deathwork.

Bonus: it’s in the ballroom of a haunted Victorian mansion.

Join us on Sunday, July 27th for a full day workshop on Home Funerals and Deathwork. This workshop is created and led by Lauren Carroll, Funeral Director & Home Funeral Educator and Erin Merelli, Death Doula & Ceremonialist.

08/06/2019

Award-winning Australian writer Cory Taylor spent the last years of her life fascinated with her own mortality. In her last weeks, she shared some of her insights in a bedside interview with Richard Fidler.

26/06/2017

Want to meet more death advocates like yourself!!? Come join the National Home Funeral Alliance this fall! Find knowledge, support, and new friends!

03/04/2017

Learn how to make seed bombs for your loved ones memorial and more!

We’re not kidding when we say ‘Hurry!’ – we’ll sell out quickly. For those who are returning, you know how wonderful it is to reconnect, face-to-face, with your home funeral community. For those who are new to this – it’s not to be missed!

08/02/2017

Down with the corporate Funerals!! Home funerals for everyone!!! Yes!!

An NPR investigation finds the death care industry can often be confusing and unhelpful to consumers who must make high-priced decisions at a time of grief and financial stress.

24/01/2017

13/01/2017

This is one of the most comforting and comprehensive works on grief I know.

03/01/2017

That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying

I went closer,
and I did not die.
Surely God
had his hand in this,

as well as friends.
Still, I was bent,
and my laughter,
as the poet said,

was nowhere to be found.
Then said my friend Daniel,
(brave even among lions),
"It's not the weight you carry

but how you carry it -
books, bricks, grief -
it's all in the way
you embrace it, balance it, carry it

when you cannot, and would not,
put it down."
So I went practicing.
Have you noticed?

Have you heard
the laughter
that comes, now and again,
out of my startled mouth?

How I linger
to admire, admire, admire
the things of this world
that are kind, and maybe

also troubled -
roses in the wind,
the sea geese on the steep waves,
a love
to which there is no reply?

- Mary Oliver

18/10/2016

Are you shifting your views on death and dying too?

Major shifts are underway in dealing with the aftermath of death in a more personal way.

30/09/2016

"Grief and Praise are renters whose landlord is Love."

Quote by Martin Prachtel. If you're grieving, you may be very comforted by his work.

Photo by Unknown. We followed the image back a bit inconclusively. Would love to credit the artist for this resonate image

12/09/2016

A fresh perspective on post mortem care by the recently deceased and thoroughly brilliant Max Ritvo.

Max Ritvo and I first met at the 92Y, in May 2014. He generously approached me after the Discovery Prize reading I’d given to share how much he appreciated my poems. I remember him proclaiming some…

27/08/2016

On saddness:

And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."

And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;

And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the
Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

-Kahlil Gibran

27/08/2016

The Thing Is

To love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it.

When grief sits with you, it's tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water, more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think,
How can a body withstand this?

Then you hold life a like face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes,

And you say, yes, I will take you,
I will love you again.

Ellen Bass

22/08/2016

It’s worse to say nothing than to say the wrong thing. Here are five ways to respond helpfully to people who have suffered an enormous loss.

26/07/2016

Please remember

22/07/2016

And until then, I'll still be right here (can you get quiet enough to hear?)

20/07/2016

Everything in nature is recycled. Nothing really ends.

20/07/2016

When we dream, we release the fixed structures and perspectives that frame our waking lives.

Our pineal gland awakens.

The vibration of our being rises.

And they can meet us there, in the in between.

18/07/2016

We can't always process our grief out loud, or in real time, or when we think we are supposed to.
Some days grief feels like survival.

15/07/2016

Anias Nin

09/07/2016

Home funeral guide, death midwife, soul midwife, death doula, end of life doula, transition guide, end of life guide, and other terms are defined and explained

09/07/2016

Yes!!!

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