Greetings,
Was there a time in your life when hearing “2022” would have given you futuristic science fiction visions?
Sometimes I wonder if all the world has experienced in the past two years is a payback: you thought sci-fi, so here you go …
My wish is that 2022 has the dystopian aspect permanently removed so that we can reconnect with loved ones near and far. Oh, that we could be so lucky.
Today I’m sharing with you a link to a bonus podcast episode that was published on Christmas Eve. It’s the first chapter of the audio book of Death and its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons: field notes from The Death Dialogues Project, read by yours truly. Scroll to the bottom to find the quick link for that.
You will also find the link to the latest, profound, full podcast episode with Lisa Bain, along with her Tiny Death Story.
With less than six weeks until publication of our first book (2/22/22), it is certainly feeling like all of our hard work is coming to fruition.
As a person who’s spent most of my adult life either in training or clinical settings, I’d like you to consider that this book is not only a lovely personal read, but an excellent resource for people who are training in any type of human services to assist them in feeling more competent surrounding death and dying.
My fellow students and I certainly would have appreciated more support than a speaker coming to our therapy course and the box being ticked for loss and grief. Death, end of life and grief were such skimmed over or overlooked areas. This book would have provided a welcomed way to better understand what people with deep grief are carrying.
Of course, it’s always been humans teaching humans. Flawed humans. Grieving humans. Death-avoidant humans, as our over-culture has taught us to be.
You’ll find Death and its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons a very honest and real, yet gorgeously palatable a way to embrace thinking about these topics.
This book is an excellent resource for death-workers, hospices and other organizations to use as a resource for training and to provide as gifts to grievers.
I share this because I know that many of you who follow this project work in the realm of end of life and I’d like you to have it on your radar as an additional tool in your toolbox. My publisher will be open to discussing bulk rates.
Please take gentle care of yourselves as we peer out of the deep, dark cave and into the daylight of 2022. Wishing us all kinder and gentler days.
All love,
Becky. creator of The Death Dialogues Project & Podcast
