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Lindsea Mitchell and AG Derwen
Lindsea is based in the Western Cape, South Africa and talks here about the death of her horse, her parents and her process of recovery from addiction. Exploring the nuances of death and death doulaship without the...
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Jo Swift and AG Derwen
Jo Swift lives in Devon and attended the Death Doula course retreat in North Wales in September which was filmed for a documentary, since then Jo has received a stage 4 cancer diagnosis and also accompanied her mother...
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Merryn Tenalach and AG Derwen
Merryn Tenalach is a Grief Tender, Doula and Guardian of Soulton Longbarrow; in this episode we explore some of Merryn's journey into working with death and grief, her calling and her response to that call and we...
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Beth Rabjohns and AG Derwen
Beth Rabjohns in “Conversation with Death” shares their experiences of what can only be described as a Big Year; including attending the Death Doula course in September for the filming of the soon-to-be-released film...
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Chris Evans and Alexandra Derwen
Back for a new season of Conversations with Death in this episode we meet Chris Evans, a death doula, grief tender and funeral celebrant based in South and West Wales. Chris shares about his own journey especially a...
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Luke Roberts and Alexandra Derwen
Luke and Alexandra explore what Luke is experiencing being so close to death as he awaits kidney and pancreas transplant. Podcast contains swearing - which we are not ashamed of!Â
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Rose Mai Celeste and Alexandra Derwen
Rose and Baby Ailsa join us to talk about Rose's experience of being a live-in carer, loss of community and coming to our course in 2021 pregnant; and how her and her partner's farming and craftsmanship could forge a...
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Denise Baker and Alexandra Derwen
In this extended edition Denise explores how her desire to "tag being an end of life doula onto her psychotherapy practice" gave way to a deep realisation that this is in fact a way of life; Denise's work in photo...
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Charlotte Willoughby and Alexandra Derwen
Charlotte comes from a nursing background and in this episode she talks about the differences between nursing and being a doula; and the importance of her spirituality. Charlotte is also the Community Co-ordinator for...
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Marcela Scarpellini and Alexandra Derwen
Marcela is an environmental lawyer who works between Germany and Ireland, originally from Venezuala. In this episode we can really hear how hard the course has been for Marcela at times and how they came through it. A...
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Yemaya Rodriguez and Alexandra Derwen
Yemaya is a full spectrum doula, mum of 4 and an occupational therapist. In this interview Yemaya talks about the "life changing" nature of our course. You can find out more about Yemaya and her work at...
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Cally Fitzsimmons and Alexandra Derwen
Cally Forbes now Fitzsimmons comes from and still lives in the Kingdom of Fife; formally a funeral director and now celebrant Cally makes a strong case for joining the course regardless of whether you feel called to...
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