Good morning beautiful Insight Timer community.
I am Jennifer and during my morning meditation it came to me to do this talk.
So thank you spirit,
Message received and here I am.
I am following your call and I'll begin with touching on my career.
I worked in the field of human services for nearly 40 years during which time I witnessed the cause and effect of trauma and unresolved grief.
I worked in the ditches of what we see in everyday news headlines.
Addictions,
Poverty,
Homelessness,
Abandonment and death.
For me being an empath it was much deeper than clinical,
Medical,
Political statistics.
There were many days that I struggled in my career.
For me it was like viewing mini clips or movie trailers of lost souls journeys and to better support the lost souls I took every training available.
In my professional life along with my personal life there were rising numbers in deaths.
Many of the people around me were not comfortable with death.
They viewed it as a medical event,
The end and avoided all uncomfortable conversations regarding that loss.
But I don't see it as an end.
I do not view it as a medical event.
It's a continuum of our souls journey and with intent to better support all souls four years ago I became an end-of-life doula.
Now my title is not generally well-received.
I have had people literally say to me that is sick.
Ew,
How depressing.
What?
That's really morbid.
Don't talk about that around me.
People in our culture may not be comfortable talking about death but no matter the situation I've learned that everyone wants their grief to be validated.
And grief is not only the result of death.
It can be that of a divorce,
Job loss,
A change in your health,
Setting healthy boundaries,
And even collective grief.
No matter what the case may be your grief matters.
You matter.
And I said a little prayer for you today.
I see you.
I hear you.
And I'm so glad that you stopped by to be with me today.
