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Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett are so happy to talk to about death doulas with Ashley Oppon.  Ashley is a death doula, hospice nurse, podcast host, and author.

In this episode, they discuss:

• Brett's recent trip to the ER (he's fine)


• Remembering to ground when you're off base


• A lot of energetic layers are being pulled back for people right now, especially relationally


• Be soft with yourself


• Everyone has a different style for being present


• The value of being in "the inbetween"


• What if we all valued the "disgusting process" of the cocoon?


• What exactly is a death doula?


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• Working as an advocate for the dying and dead


• Growing up with death rituals from her father's tribe in Ghana


• In many West African traditions, funerals can be bigger than weddings


• Using funerals to celebrate a person's life and to acknowledge the presence of death


• Growing up not fearing death because of the frank discussions about it in her family


• Helping people with all stages of dying and dealing with death


• Some people just want to talk about their lives


• Having your own funeral


• People seeing their dead loved ones when close to death


• How Ashley's relationship to death has changed


• The similarities of death mythologies around the world


• Letting death inform your enjoyment of the physicality of life


• People don't regret helping to physically deal with their loved one's body after death


• And more!

Plus...

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Ashley's info:

• Website: https://www.sankofahealingsanctuary.com/


• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sankofahs

Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.