Learn about a brilliant workbook that helps us expand death literacy while exploring life’s deeper meaning.
My guest Francesca Lynn Arnoldy is a doula and a researcher with the Vermont Conversation Lab. She was the original developer of the end-of-life doula training programs at the University of Vermont and is the author of three “death-lit” books. In this conversation we’ll discuss her latest workbook The Death Doula’s Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared. Learn more at her websites:
This episode includes:
- Reminder about Francesca’s previous book Map of Memory Lane and how it helps children learn about grief
- Francesca’s main inspiration for creating this workbook
- The value of keeping a “Death Journal”
- How to use The Death Doula’s Guide as a death journal
- The importance of acquiring both intellectual knowledge and inner wisdom
- A heart-centering practice for death workers is a valuable tool
- What death wellness means and how one can achieve it
- The difference between sympathy, empathy, and compassion
- How to do a life review
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