Learn how to tell if you’ve been called to be a “deathwalker” and how to offer sacred care to others at the end of life.
My guest Sarah Kerr has been a death doula, ritual healing practitioner, and trainer since 2012. She draws on nature-based spirituality, sacred sciences, and the richness of the human soul in her work and she is the founder of The Centre for Sacred Deathcare. She discusses the “deathwalker archetype,” how many people are being called right now to do this work, and the courses she offers to help us create more complete maps for dying, death and bereavement. Learn more about Sarah’s work at her websites:
Education and training: www.sacreddeathcare.com
Death doula services: www.soulpassages.ca
This episode includes:
- How Sarah was drawn to the work she does as a death doula, ritual practitioner and trainer
- Why social healing requires getting accustomed to endings and death
- How death care helps us merge our knowledge of science and spirituality
- How The Centre for Sacred Deathcare got started
- Challenges and blessings that have arisen from COVID
- Simple, personal rituals for being present during difficult times
- What is the “Deathwalker Archetype” and how to know if it is active in your psyche
- How Western medicine leaves out the Soul when dealing with health issues
- Why we need new maps for dying, death and bereavement
- The 3 maps of The Soul’s Journey Course Sarah teaches
- Why Deathwalkers need to be in community with one another
Links mentioned in this episode:
- End-of-Life University YouTube Channel
- Presentation: Self-Care for the Holidays
- Interview with Sarah about Soul Passages
- Interview with Sarah on Funerals and Rituals
- Get Sarah’s ebook: The Principles of Sacred Deathcare
- Sarah’s course: Awakening the Archetype of the Deathwalker
- Sarah’s course: The Soul’s Journey
- Support your local bookstore by buying my books on Bookshop and Indiebound: 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying and The Journey from Ego to Soul
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