Let Joy Flow: A Soul Friend Story

The Celtic Anamcara...Dame Cicely Saunders...today's end-of-life doulas. A lineage across the years that speaks to the power and need for human presence as a person nears the end of their life. I am sharing a news feature and some context from Christy Moe Marek, an end-of -life doula and a colleague in end-of-life care, who lives in Minnesota. I invite you to watch the news piece, then read what Christy shared about it.

Christy shares context, as she explains that she was at an Anamcara retreat in Bend, Oregon when Karen died: And as an aside, I couldn’t be with Karen when she died because I was at the Year 1 closing retreat for Anamcara in Bend. While in Bend, I coordinated with her team of friends and family we had put together honoring her wishes that we had written up and shared with them. In many of our meditations/journeys during the closing program, I was with her cheering her on. And in the end, I startled awake from a dream on the last night — I had been with Karen on a train — to find a text from her loved ones that she had just died. And someone was indeed holding her hand.

This is just so beautiful and speaks to allowing someone to die with grace and dignity…to the possibility of healing at the end of life…and indeed the ever present role of teaching that the dying can embrace…and all of that possible and augmented by the presence of a doula…and in this case by Christy. I encourage you to visit her website.

Christy Moe Marek of Tending Life at the Threshold