323 Choosing Love Over Fear at the End of Life with Danielle Slupesky

On the Well Woman Show today I interview Danielle Slupesky. Danielle is a certified End of Life Coach and Death Doula. She takes a non-judgmental, heart-centered approach to working with those who are thinking about, preparing for, and near the end of their lives. She offers non-medical, practical, emotional, spiritual and physical support to the dying, as well as to their caregivers and loved ones. Through public education and community engagement her goal is normalize conversations surrounding death, grief and loss. She aims to desterilize and demedicalize death and the dying process. After a near death experience in 2013, Danielle says, "I came back with a mission. I want to bring death back home. Back into the hands and hearts of our families and communities. Death, like birth, need not be a medical event. You've prepared for this journey your entire life. Embark without fear and full of love. We discuss today: No one makes it out of here alive - lets talk about what that means and how it feels to accept this fact. If you knew you were going to die within three months, what would you focus on or do differently? And how we can bring beauty, ritual and ceremony and sacredness to any space - even a heavily medicalized ICU! If you want to know more about Women Empower Sessions hosted by the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, please visit <a href="https://web.santafechamber.com/events/WomenEmpower" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://web.santafechamber.com/events/WomenEmpower</a> Featuring The 2023 Business of the Year Kitchen Table Santa Fe-3674/details?mibextid=Zxz2cZ 1. If you want to know more about the December 1st Csw listening tour, please visit <a href="https://nmcsw.org/listening-learning-event-registration-silver-city/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://nmcsw.org/listening-learning-event-registration-silver-city/</a> The books Danielle mentioned were: <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-book-of-awakening-having-the-life-you-want-by-being-present-to-the-life-you-have-20th-anniversary-edit