Gathering the Death Workers

building what we need to sustain

More and more, I am being shown how this work is lifelong.

It truly is the long game.

Ideally, we all have a relationship with death and steward it until our last breath. A relationship that is our birthrite.

But as we know, many folks meet their death without ever having this awareness, and now many of us feel the call to help change that.

However, in that call, it can be lonely.

It can be confusing to try and figure out how to be of service in this way while also still tending to your own relationship with mortality. And with life.

Attempting to start a business, educate the community, and/or get your family’s plans in order can be a lot.

This can cause our own relationship to death to get lost.

But the relationship we embody in this realm is our greatest guiding force in this work. Alongside a collaborative network to hold us in that.

Death work is meant to be communal.

Those of us drawn to this work are not only tasked with rebuilding support for communities but also for deathworks ourselves so we can grow and sustain this work over time. Building the plane as it flies.

To do that, we need each other.

I am passionate about gathering folks, whether you do this work professionally or not, so we can flesh this out together.

Our next gathering is on Thursday, the 13th, where we will move through practices and exercises that folks at the end of their lives walk through.

It is a chance for us to embody our work even deeper so that we can be guided in our next steps AND plug into others doing this work.

We'll do this by:

• Identifying practices for strength and longevity

• Examining our own relationship to grief & death

• Claiming our desires and needs through Life Review

• Co-creating our own legacy

I would love to have you join.

& a quick shoutout to the new folks here. :) I will be sending a deeper welcome and introduction to this space soon.

It has been so fun to feel it grow.

Hope to see you next week!

With love,

Lisa Marie

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