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    98. How to Live So We Can Die Peacefully with Death Doula Alua Arthur

    98. How to Live So We Can Die Peacefully with Death Doula Alua Arthur

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    98. How to Live So We Can Die Peacefully with Death Doula Alua Arthur

    FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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    Length:
    63 minutes
    Released:
    May 24, 2022
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    1. What Alua has learned about living well from the many people she’s helped walk home as a death doula. 
    2. The “deathbed test” that guides her toward what is important and helps her stay present.
    3. Alua eases Abby’s immense fear of death by sharing her glitter-wave vision.
    4. The most surprising thing she wants us to know about death.
    5. Concrete steps we can take now to help prepare ourselves–and our loved ones–for the inevitable.

    About Alua:
    Alua Arthur is a death doula, recovering attorney, and the founder of Going with Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization that exists to support people as they answer the question, “What must I do to be at peace with myself so that I may live presently and die gracefully?” Going with Grace works to improve and redefine the end-of-life experience for people rooted in every community using the individual lived experience as the foundation. Alua was a keynote speaker at EndWell 2019, and has been featured in the LA Times, Vogue, Refinery29, The Doctors, and InStyle. She is inspired by the gift of LIFE itself and is always on the quest for the best donuts and fried plantains!

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    Released:
    May 24, 2022
    Format:
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    I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Because we experienced the hardship of the pandemic collectively, many of us finally acknowledged what was true before COVID and will be true after: That life is freaking HARD. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. On We Can Do Hard Things, my sister Amanda and I will do the only thing I’ve found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Each week we will bring our hard to you and we will ask you to bring your hard to us and we will do what we were all meant to do down here: Help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.