Some of the hardest conversations are those that revolve around dying .. and yet they are also often the most important conversations that people recount. Our dying, or the dying of someone dear to us, offers us the opportunity to say things we will never have another opportunity to say. It's our opportunity to tell people how much we love them, how they have impacted us, what we wish for them .. and how much we are already miss them when it becomes so palpably clear that the time left to us is ever so brief. Too often we hear about how people regret not having spoken what was close to their heart while they had the chance. It doesn't have to be this way. It's up to us to respond differently. It's up to us to be courageously willing to engage in those precious and life honouring conversations.

If you’re struggling with how to approach a conversation on the subject of death and would like to schedule a session with me, click here.

Here are some resources that I have gathered for those who wish to further explore the subject:

• Griefwalker .. 70 min documentary featuring Stephen Jenkinson, author of Die Wise

• Grief is a way of loving .. 5 min video (Brian Rose interviews Stephen Jenkinson)

• Francis Weller on Grief .. 14 min video

• Grief is Praise .. excerpt from Martín Prechtel’s book The Smell of Rain on Dust

• The Art of Living .. (15 min section) David Maybury-Lewis | I have cued the video to start at 23:28m documenting the Dogon tribe of Mali death ritual

• Of Water and the Spirit .. book by Malidoma Somē