235. Danna Schmidt: "Rituals of Healing From Birth to Worth"

Update: 2025-06-10

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Danna Schmidt is an end-of-life navigator, ceremonialist, and adoptee who often writes about ritual and threshold moments at the bedside or graveside. Her writings have appeared in Adoptee Voices, Severance Magazine, Grown and Flown and in Maggie Oman Shannon’s Crafting Love: Sharing Our Hearts Through the Work of Our Hands. She has two works in progress: a hybrid guidebook, Funerals, Families & Other Exciting F Words, and her adoption memoir, What the Stork Brought, which chronicles family secrets and the prices we pay to keep them.

https://waypointceremonies.com/

Rituals of Healing from Birth to Worth - Waypoint Ceremonies

https://AltaredMoments.substack.com

Music by Corey Quinn

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235. Danna Schmidt: "Rituals of Healing From Birth to Worth"

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235. Danna Schmidt: "Rituals of Healing From Birth to Worth"

235. Danna Schmidt: "Rituals of Healing From Birth to Worth"