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So, you want to be a Death Doula? Alright let's go. Don't spend thousands of dollars on courses yet! Death & Grief Doulas are on the rise. Especially with everything that's going on in the world right now. Death Doula Q&A Summary from last week's LIVE. WHERE TO START List of Books: Death Doula Books Finding Peace at the End of Life - a death doula's guide for Families and Friends by Henry Fersko-Weiss The Doula Business Guide - How to Succeed as a Birth, Postpartum or End of Life Doula by Patty Brennan Holding Space - on Loving Dying and Letting Go by Amy Wright Glenn Death Doula - Tools & Techniques for End of Life Support by Kelly Ruby Hanson Grief Books The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller It's Okay that You're Not Okay - Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that doesn't Understand by Megan Devine Training Recommendations: INELDA - National End of Life Doula Association Going with Grace A Sacred Passing A Sacred Crossing Online Resource: NEDA - National End of Life Doula Alliance Hope this helps! LINK TO BOOKS IN BIO. ❤️ Jess The Death Empath your Death Bestie & Grief Buddy Ancestral Death Doula, Curandera, Transformative Speaker & Storyteller - Using Performing Art & Content Creation to help alchemize Grief, Death & Loss of Self. #thedeathempath #thedeathempathshow #deathdoulajess #deathbestiejess #griefbuddy #shadowempath #deathdancing #happyhourdeathdancing #shadowworker #griefarttherapy #griefandloss #mexicanshaman

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So you want to be a Dattula? I got you. But we're not just going to jump straight into a training and certification course, okay? They're starting to get kind of expensive. I want you to make sure that you know what kind of Dattula you want to be. So here we go. Here are the books. This is what I want to read. One, you want to be a Dattula. Finding peace at the end of life. A Dattula's guide for families and caregivers. This, you can go into the professional side. You can go into the personal side. Alright, holding space on loving, dying, letting go. This is the thing that we get trained to do as Dattulas is to hold space. Aiming right, glenched. Being a Dattula is a business. You'll be an independent contractor. This is so important. The Dula business guide has succeed as a birth postpartum in end of life Dula. These are the tools techniques and end of life support. This thing goes in and out from like what's in your Dattula bag, essential oils. I had to talk to people about spirituality and the faith. Dattula tools and techniques and of life support. Kelly, we're enhancing this. I want to be a grief Dula. You want to do grief support. The wild edge of sorrow, rituals of renewal and the sacred work of grief. France as well, this book is gut wrenching and beautiful. And then it's okay that you're not okay, meaning grief and loss and the culture that doesn't understand, making a divide. Alright, I spent thousands of dollars yet. Let me teach you because I've already been learned on that and I have spent lots of money. Makes sense? Great. Do workshops, read articles, get hands on experience as much as you can. So you figure out what kind of business you want to go into as a Dattula. I will always say this because I have been a senior entrepreneur and I have owned many businesses. Do what you already know. Do what you already passionate about and just apply that work to that thing.