Learn how to restore sacredness to grief and embrace those who are often excluded from the shared grief experience.
My guest Joél Simone Anthony is a licensed funeral director and sacred grief practitioner in Atlanta, Georgia. She utilizes spirituality that is deeply rooted in ancient wisdom in her work guiding families toward healing after a death has occurred. Joél is also a leader in the movement to expose and heal systemic racism in death care and teaches cultural competency courses for funeral professionals. Learn more about her work at her website:
This episode includes:
- Joél’s calling to become a funeral director
- How her upbringing exposed her to ancient African culture that informs her work today
- Definition and examples of disenfranchised grief
- How ignoring grief has emotional and mental health consequences
- How COVID interferes with funeral rituals and ideas for creating a sense of community during a time of isolation
- Simple rituals to help with grief
- “The Grief Kit” as a tool for dealing with loss
- How systemic racism in death care can occur due to a lack of education
- Joél’s courses:
- Shifting Deathcare: Tools for a New Paradigm (in collaboration with others)
- Self Care for Death Professionals
- Racism in Death Care
- Cultural Competency for Funeral Professionals
Links mentioned in this episode:
- View the cover of my next book (The Journey from Ego to Soul) here
- Get the Grief Kit here
- Course: Shifting Deathcare: Tools for a New Paradigm – Learn more here
- Joél’s other courses: Learn more here
- Sayin’ It Louder Workshop: Get the replay here
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