In today’s episode of the Tranquil Awakenings Podcast, Debbie will be in conversation with Jean Westgarth, a soul midwife who helps individuals who are at the end of their life to make their transition peacefully.

Through providing an open space for healing and discussion, Jean combines her expertise as a nurse with complementary therapies and practices such as gentle touch, sound, deep listening, and energy work, to support individuals, and their families, come to terms with end-of-life experiences.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Soul midwives are holistic, non-denominational practitioners who help individuals who are coming to the end of their life.
• Having a spiritual or religious belief system can help individuals come to terms with the end of their life.
• Soul midwifery is a bridge between clinical and holistic care.
• Having conversations about death and dying is important to help an individual transition from this life, as well as guiding loved ones to understand the dying persons wishes.
• Essential oils, deep conversations, sound, and touch can all assist with coming to the end of life.

BEST MOMENTS

• “ I will absolutely meet somebody where they are. You know, if they have a religious belief or a spiritual belief or nothing, it's just meeting that person where they are.”
•  ”I always believed, when my own father died, I just always knew when he was around me and I just felt there was something more.”
•  ”It's just exploring and demystifying, exploring death and dying. Ideally, we can pick somebody up at palliation or old age. It gives you the time to work with that. We call them friends. They're not patients or clients. We call them friends because the friendship and the trust builds up over time.”
•  ”You can't fix it, you can't make it better. You can just be with that person and be comfortable enough to sit with their acceptance and their challenges and how they are, and just calmly, be present and reassuring with them.”
• “ You know, you get earth withdrawing generally, and I mean that for in general old ages about slips, trips, and falls, the water. As that withdraws, they become more emotional. Let's say with Earth they're less grounded, so they need that, that emotional reassurance. They need somebody around them and just what oils actually help all those transitions. And understanding fire, you know, fire stages towards the last two, three days or maybe just few hours when you tend to get that agitation etc.”
•  ”Because like every birth of a new soul, every labour is different and every dying experience is different.”

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