Join Nicole Briggs-Gary, a facilitator with Going with Grace’s death doula training program, as we discuss the rise of the death doula, community-led deathcare, and the death positive movement.
Nicole’s passion is being present for families during the eleventh hour and increasing awareness surrounding death, dying and end of life options. Her personal mission is to create a space where the dying process is embraced and celebrated as much as the birth process.
The death-positive movement is a social and philosophical movement that encourages people to speak openly about death, dying, and grief. It seeks to eliminate the silence around death-related topics, decrease anxiety surrounding death, and encourage more end-of-life care options.
During my conversation with Nicole, we talk about the rise of the death doula and the need for ceremony surrounding end of life experiences. Nicole shares ritual examples from some of the families she’s supported, and how she looks to ritual for her own self care. Learn more about our End of Life Ceremonies.
Nicole is a retired Pediatric Audiologist who shifted into her passion by becoming a certified Community Death Doula. She has a passion for death education and being present with people at the doorway of transition.
She is on a mission to bring the Death Positive Movement into greater awareness. In addition to running her Doula practice, Passing With Peace, she works as a Hospice Volunteer Coordinator. She is also a program facilitator with Going with Grace, a death doula training program with Alua Arthur.
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