Annalouiza and Wakil offer classes on end-of-life planning, grief counseling, and interfaith (or no faith!) spiritual direction. If you are interested in any of those, don't hesitate to get in touch with us via email at endoflifeconvo@gmail.com. In this podcast, we'll share people’s experiences with the end of life. We have reached out to experts in the field, front-line workers, as well as friends, neighbors, and the community, to have conversations about their experiences with death and dy ...
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And All Shall Be Well is an optimistic podcast where Dr. Megan Rohrer (he/him) has conversations with guests about mind, body and spirit health. Believing that all people are a work in progress, And All Shall Be Well. Megan is prolific author, award winning historian and a former Lutheran bishop.
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Caring for the Homeless and Trans Communities with rev. Dr. Meghan Rohrer
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Send us a text In this episode we speak with Megan Rohrer, PhD and DMin, a social justice influencer known for their advocacy with the homeless and LGBTQ communities. Megan received a PhD in Transformative Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies for their dissertation Trans Theology Without Apology. Megan received a Doctorate of M…
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Dementia Care with the Creator and Host of the Daughterhood Podcast, Rosanne Corcoran
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Send us a text In this episode, we meet Rosanne Corcoran, who shares her experience as a caregiver for her mother with vascular dementia. She discusses the challenges of caregiving, the impact of death awareness, and the importance of supporting caregivers. The conversation also delves into the complexities of dementia care and the need to meet car…
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The Value of Listening, Patience, and Compassion in End-of-Life Care with Lynn Rovig
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Send us a text In this episode, we enjoyed a conversation with Lynn Rovig. Lynn contacted us to say she had a story to tell about her work as a Home Care Consultant with a Seattle area organization called “Home Instead.” Lynn has been working with seniors for twenty-four years. She has worked with many people in hospice care and on a personal note,…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a text You can see the video version of this premium episode on YouTube here - https://youtu.be/8mWuhQCQyB8 In this conversation, Wakil and Annalouiza discuss how to support someone who is grieving. They emphasize the importance of compassionate listening and being present for the person without trying to fix anythin…
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Poetry As a Powerful Tool for Addressing End-of-Life Topics with Poet Steve Dahl
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Send us a text In this episode we are honored to speak with poet, Steve Dahl. Steve’s career has always been in the world of marketing and creativity. He’s helped many clients over the years promote and grow their business with his creative writing, photography, and social media skills. Steve holds a Master’s degree in Organization Development and …
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Creative Aging, Death Awareness, and Resilience with Rebecca Crichton
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Send us a text In this episode we meet Rebecca Crichton, the executive director of Northwest Center for Creative Aging. We discuss her work in the field of creative aging and grief counseling. She shares personal experiences with death and highlights the importance of having conversations about death and end-of-life choices. Rebecca emphasizes the …
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Eco Friendly Caskets and Urns with Diana O'Riordan Verschoor and Luc Nadeau
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Send us a text Today we're very happy to be able to share a conversation with two friends, Diana & Luc Diana O'Riordan Verschoor, who also goes by Dee, is an eco folk artist living in the Colorado on Cheyenne, Ute, and Arapaho ancestral land. Dee's small business, Thimble and Stone, supports collective liberation through functional folk arts, placi…
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A Cultural Perspective on the End of Life from a Black Woman with Dr. Amelia Phillips
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Send us a text Today we have an opportunity to share a conversation with Dr. Amelia Phillips, a black woman working in a variety of fields dominated by white men including Engineering Information technology and real estate. Dr. Phillips is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a BS degree in Astronautical Engineering an…
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Episode 37: How to Make it Through Hard Things
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And All Shall Be Well is an optimistic podcast where Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer (he/him) shares wisdom or conversations with guests about mind, body and spirit health. Believing that all people are a work in progress, And All Shall Be Well. Megan is prolific author, award winning historian and a former Lutheran bishop.…
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Medical Aid in Dying & Personal Agency at the End of Life with Dr. Twana Sparks
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Send us a text Twana Sparks MD is a semi-retired ear, nose and throat surgeon and writer. She is a native New Mexican and 1986 graduate of the University of New Mexico Medical School. Dr. Twana Sparks excels at oral histories mixed with scientific information. Her books on Medical Aid in Dying (2024) and Tuberculosis treatment (2013) blend the pers…
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Death Designer Isabel Knight - Creating Human Centered, Accessible and Inclusive End of Life Experiences
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Send us a text On today’s episode we have a wonderful conversation with Isabel Knight. Isabel is the Founder of The Death Designer, a company that provides end-of-life planning services, including funeral and vigil planning, digital account password management, advance directives, and assistance with reconciling fears of mortality. She takes a huma…
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Terramation - Composting as an Alternative Body Disposition - with Brien Smith
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Send us a text In this episode we got to spend time with Brie Smith. Brie is the longest-standing employee at Return Home, a leader in the new (but old) practice of terramation or body composting. She first served as Director of Services, then as COO, and now she is responsible for overseeing Return Home’s community outreach initiatives, including …
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Episode 36: Resilience with GAEL ISAIAH LALA-CHÁVEZ
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And All Shall Be Well is an optimistic podcast where Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer (he/him) has conversations with guests about mind, body and spirit health. Believing that all people are a work in progress, And All Shall Be Well. Megan is prolific author, award winning historian and a former Lutheran bishop.…
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Episode 35: Spiritual Direction and Sufism with the Rev. Wakil David Matthews
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On this week’s podcast Dr. Megan Rohrer talks with the Rev Wakil David Matthews, an interfaith minister ordained through the Sufi Ruhaniat International order, a very universalist and ecumenical Sufi organization. He has worked in hospice as a volunteer and chaplain’s assistant, so feels called to work specifically with those who do end of life wor…
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Season One Roundup and Season Two Teaser
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Send us a text In this episode you can view as a video podcast on YouTube or on Spotify Annalouiza and Wakil discuss the first twenty episodes from Season One and all of the profound and inspirational insights that we learned from our guests. We also talk about what is coming in Season Two, including a new website and new video offerings for paid s…
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Episode 34: Forgiveness and Recovery from Spiritual Injury with Kayla Oakes
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On this week’s podcast Dr. Megan Rohrer talks with author Kaya Oakes. Kayla's sixth book, Not So Sorry, is out July 2024. Her other books include: The Nones Are Alright (Orbis Books, 2015), Radical Reinvention (Counterpoint Press, 2012), The Defiant Middle: How Women Claim Life’s In Betweens to Remake the World (Broadleaf Books 2021). Socials: @kay…
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Grief Companioning is Walking Side by Side with Someone Unconditionally - with Dr. Janice Lundy
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Send us a text In this episode we meet Dr. Janice Lundy, who is a grief support specialist and a grief educator. She is the founder of the Metta Center, which offers specialized training in spiritual direction, also known as spiritual companionship, including one-of-a-kind grief companionship training. Having experienced a great deal of loss in her…
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Addressing Death Anxiety and Grief in a Holistic and Sacred way with Paul Miner
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Send us a text Paul Minor is a transpersonal and spiritual counselor and a Thanatologist. He shares his personal experiences with death and how they influenced his career path. Paul's work involves transpersonal spiritual counseling and Thanatology, the study of death, dying, and bereavement. He emphasizes the importance of addressing death anxiety…
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Providing Resources and Support for the LGBTQ+ Community - with Grief Specialist Gary Sturgis
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Send us a text Gary Sturgis, a grief specialist, speaker, and bereavement facilitator, shares his personal experience with loss and his journey to support others through grief. He discusses the importance of providing resources and support for the LGBTQ+ community, who often face unique challenges in their grief. Gary emphasizes the need for unders…
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Death Is the Coronation of Life with Professor Dr. Harald Walach
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Send us a text For this unique episode, we will be interviewing Professor Harald Walach PhD. Professor Walach is a clinical psychologist, philosopher of science, and researcher at the interface between medicine, psychology, and consciousness studies. He is a professorial research fellow with the Next Society Institute at Kazimierash Simonavichius U…
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Supporting Children and Teens in Grief with Julie Lockhart
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Send us a text In this episode, we talk with Julie Lockhart, a retired academic. During the last years of her career, she led a grief support nonprofit called WinterSpring, where she discovered the beauty and depth of personal stories. There she shared her own experience, which helped grieving people feel less alone. Julie loves an adventure, espec…
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The Importance of Gathering and Saying Goodbye - with Arlene Hoag
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Send us a text Arlene Hoag, a hospice volunteer and co-chairman of the Mountains of Courage conference, shares her experiences and insights on death and dying. She discusses her early encounters with death, the grief she experienced when a friend passed away, and the importance of communicating with loved ones who have passed. Arlene also emphasize…
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Healing Through Writing with Laura Davis
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Send us a text In this episode, we speak to Laura Davis, author of The Burning Light of Two Stars, The Courage to Heal, and four other books. In addition to writing books that inspire, the work of Laura’s heart is to teach. For over twenty years, she’s helped people find their voices, tell their stories, and hone their craft. She teaches online and…
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Episode 33: Queer, Jewish and Creating Community with Rabbi Jillian Cameron
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On this week’s podcast Dr. Megan Rohrer talks with Rabbi Jillian Cameron, who leads the oldest LGBTQ temple in the United States. She is passionate about connecting with every person she meets in the holiest of moments as well as the most mundane. She believes in the power and importance of diversity in the Jewish community and our responsibility t…
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Episode 32: Finding Joy No Matter Your Politics with Edward Wright
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On this week’s podcast Dr. Megan Rohrer talks with Edward Wright a transportation specialist who is politically active in San Francisco. Megan Rohrer, DMin is a social justice advocate and influencer known for their advocacy for the homeless and LGBTQ communities. If you enjoy these conversations and want them to continue, please like, subscribe, r…
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Educating About the Realities of Death and Dying and Grief - with Jill McClennen
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Send us a text We were honored to meet and talk with Jill McClennen in this episode. She is a certified death doula, a non-medical professional specially trained to provide holistic care for individuals in their final stages of life. She offers comprehensive support, preparation, and deep soul healing to her clients and their families, whether in p…
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Episode 31: Simple Acts of Nonviolence with Michael Nagler
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On this week’s podcast Dr. Megan Rohrer talks with Michael Nagler. As Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, Michael Nagler co-founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program. His books include The Search for a Nonviolent Future: A Promise of Peace for Ourselves, Our Families, and Our World; The Nonviolence Handbo…
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Bringing Kindness Through Song to Those Facing Life's Thresholds with Kate Schuyler
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Send us a text Please note this content warning for the following episode. In this episode our friend Kate speaks about her experience with putting down a beloved horse. Please take care of yourselves. Today we are excited to have a conversation with Kate Schuyler. She is an active student of life, self, and the heart, a mother, grandmother, partne…
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Episode 30: 30: Reimaging, Intergeneration Queer Conversations and Ritual with Rabbi Angel
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On this week’s podcast Dr. Megan Rohrer talks with Rabbi Camille Shira Angel an ordained Reform rabbi with over 25 years of experience guiding couples and families in Jewish lifecycle events. She is an award-winning educator, public speaker, and LGBTQIA religious activist. Currently, she is Rabbi-in-Residence at University of San Francisco. Learn m…
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Episode 29: 29: And All Shall Be Well: Lessons Learned in France from the Queer Community
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On this week’s podcast, Dr. Megan Rohrer, talks about lessons they learned in Paris, France. Megan Rohrer, DMin is a social justice advocate and influencer known for their advocacy for the homeless and LGBTQ communities. If you enjoy these conversations and want them to continue, please like, subscribe, review and consider supporting our podcast on…
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Grief is Where Your Love Goes with Rev Judith Laxer
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Send us a text In this episode, we are blessed to spend time with the Rev. Judith Laxer. She is a modern-day mystic who believes that beauty, humor, and the wonders of nature make life worth living. The founding Priestess of Gaia’s Temple, Judith is a keynote and TEDx speaker, teacher of the magickal arts and mysteries, and author of Along the Whee…
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Grief is Grief, Loss of Pets, or Loss in a Small African Village - with Stephanie and Jeffrey
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Send us a text In this episode, we had the honor of sharing a conversation with Jeffrey and Stephanie, a married couple who live on an island near Seattle. Jeffrey has his master's and a Ph.D. in agriculture and has been working in food security in Sub-Saharan Africa for over 20 years. He has found that our humanity comes before our agendas, that w…
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Episode 28: 28: How Judgement Changes with Time and Lessons Learned in Argentina -And All Shall Be Well
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On this week’s podcast, Dr. Megan Rohrer, talks about lessons they learned in Argentina. Megan Rohrer, DMin is a social justice advocate and influencer known for their advocacy for the homeless and LGBTQ communities. Megan is an award winning filmmaker, musician and historian, who was a finalist for the Lambda Literary award, received an honorable …
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Valentines Day Memorial Special
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Send us a text In this special episode, we bring you memorials to beloveds who have crossed over the veil ahead of us. Wakil and Annalouiza share memorial tributes to Wakil's Grandpa Herbert and Annalouiza's sister Vivian. We'll also hear from Jane Ellen Nickell whom we interviewed in our last episode who shares the story of her mother's end of lif…
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Episode 27: 27: Writing and Wellness While Jewish and Trans in France and Israel with Ariel Alvarez Pereyre
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On this week’s podcast, hosted by Dr. Megan Rohrer, we talk about writing, wellness and being both trans and Jewish in France and Israel. Our guest Ariel Alvarez Pereyre is a writer, musician and trans activist whose first book is about love, faith and the journey toward authentic relationship. Ariel lives in Southern Israel near the ongoing war an…
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Working as a College Chaplain - with Jane Ellen Nickell
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Send us a text Jane Ellen Nickell is enjoying retirement, after serving 16 years as Chaplain of Allegheny College, which followed a career in performing arts management and marketing. A native of West Virginia, she currently lives in Meadville, Pennsylvania, with two feline companions. In retirement, she keeps busy gardening, cooking, doing yoga, m…
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Episode 26: 26: Wellness through connection with Rev. Dan Tisdel
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On this week’s podcast, hosted by Dr. Megan Rohrer, we talk with the Rev. Dan Tisdel. Currently the senior pastor at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Sunnyvale, CA, Dan talks about his woodworking, acting and advice for those who are feeling lonely and disconnected. If you enjoy these conversations and want them to continue, please like, subscribe, revi…
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Episode 25: 25: Cynthia Nagendra Asks Dr. Megan Rohrer About How They Seek Wellness
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On this week’s podcast, with host Dr. Megan Rohrer, we talk to Cynthia Nagendra who works in homelessness in San Francisco. Cynthia talks about her experience as a 2nd generation immigrant from Sri Lanka in this three part conversation on community, wellness support for people of all races and classes. If you enjoy these conversations and want them…
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Episode 24: 24: Wellness and community from Sri Lanka to San Francisco's Tenderloin with Cynthia Nagendra
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On this week’s podcast, with host Dr. Megan Rohrer, we talk to Cynthia Nagendra who works in homelessness in San Francisco. Cynthia talks about her experience as a 2nd generation immigrant from Sri Lanka in this three part conversation on community, wellness support for people of all races and classes. If you enjoy these conversations and want them…
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Episode 23: 23: Community, Wellness and South Asian Pride with Cynthia Nagendra
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On this week’s podcast, with host Dr. Megan Rohrer, we talk to Cynthia Nagendra who works in homelessness in San Francisco. Cynthia talks about her experience as a 2nd generation immigrant from Sri Lanka in this three part conversation on community, wellness support for people of all races and classes. If you enjoy these conversations and want them…
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The Privilege of Accompanying People in Their Sacred Time of Dying - with Yanna Hanson
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Send us a text In this episode we speak with Yanna Hanson. Yanna is a death doula and currently specializes as a volunteer with end-of-life Washington. Helping terminal patients navigate the medical aid in dying process. She is often present when they take the life-ending medications. Yana also helps educate clients about another life-ending choice…
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Always Coming Back Into the Light with Ms. Margaret
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Send us a text Ms. Margaret Johnson. Ms. Margaret is currently 101 years old. When's your birthday? So she just turned 101. Margaret has lived a very rich and varied life. She has been a homemaker, a wife, and a mother to two children. She lived all over the country due to her husband's career as a geologist. She went back to school at the age of 5…
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Awareness of daily losses builds a container for grief
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Send us a text Patty Bueno is a certified grief counselor, dying consciously teacher, and creator of the Amorté podcast on death and grief education. She's currently training to become a somatic experiencing facilitator. Having accompanied three of her grandparents and later her mother through their dying process as a primary caregiver was an initi…
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Heaven: From Community to Community - with Rev. John Mabry
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Send us a text “If you cultivate community in this life, you will pass into community.” In this episode we spend time with our dear friend and teacher, Rev. John Mabry. We met him when we were both seminary students in Berkeley, CA and have remained close. Reverend Dr. John Mabry is a United Church of Christ pastor and a spiritual director. He is a…
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My Boat is Small, the Ocean is So Vast with Rev Bodhi Be
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Send us a text Welcome to Episode 3! Today we welcome Reverend Bodhi Be ‘Warrior of the heart, protector of the sacred’. Reverend Bodhi Be is an ordained interfaith minister and teacher in the Sufi lineage of Samuel Lewis and Hazrat Inayat Khan. He is the founder and executive director of Doorway Into Light, a nonprofit organization on Maui, which …
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Companions on the Path with Rev Ayah Shakur Sevigny
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Send us a text In this episode we are blessed and honored to spend time with our friend Rev Ayah Shakur Sevigny. He is currently working as a palliative care chaplain at a large hospital in Seattle, and spent 20 years as a hospice chaplain. He shares with us his wisdom and insights about the work of an end of life caregiver. He mentioned two import…
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Introducing End of Life Conversations
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Send us a text In this first episode of our End of Life Conversations podcast, Rev. Annalouiza Armendariz, and Rev. Wakil David Matthews share their own stories and talk about their passion for normalizing the conversations around death and dying. In future podcasts, we'll share people’s experiences with the end of life. We have reached out to fron…
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