S4E24 - Mindfulness, Preparation, and the Gift of Conscious Dying
Dying Your Way19 Nov 2025

S4E24 - Mindfulness, Preparation, and the Gift of Conscious Dying

In this Season 4 finale, Claire O’Berry reflects on a season filled with honesty, courage, and deep learning. Each solo episode this season served as a “Cliffs Notes” version of the Dying Your Way End-of-Life Training — a practical roadmap for anyone facing a chronic progressive illness or supporting someone through one.

Claire also expresses deep gratitude to each guest interviewed this season. Their stories, insights, and lived experience expanded the teaching topics and grounded them in real human wisdom. Each module was followed by a guest who illuminated the theme through their own journey.

This season — and all past seasons — will remain available, and Claire will be highlighting past interviews in the weeks and months ahead as we prepare for Season 5. Listeners are encouraged to subscribe, like, and comment to help spread the message of mindful dying and conscious living.

This finale reviews the key lessons from Episodes 1 through 23:
• Receiving a diagnosis
• Building your end-of-life support team
• Advance care planning
• Understanding your disease
• Aging in place
• Legacy work
• Funeral planning
• Stages of dying
• After-death care
• The week of the funeral
• Grief and bereavement

Claire shares why preparation is the greatest gift we can give ourselves and the people we love — and invites listeners to take the complete Dying Your Way End-of-Life Training to create their own EOL plan.

Learn more or enroll: https://www.dyingyourway.com/eol-training
Contact Claire: info@dyingyourway.com

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S4E15 - Planning Your Funeral: Your Final Curtain Call

S4E15 - Planning Your Funeral: Your Final Curtain Call

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S4E14 - Death isn’t the enemy — Chaos is - A Powerful Conversation with Ryan Bell (Part 1)

S4E14 - Death isn’t the enemy — Chaos is - A Powerful Conversation with Ryan Bell (Part 1)

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S4E13 - Leaving a Legacy

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S4E12 - Round 3 with Stephen Jenkinson – Matrimony, Patrimony & the Village We Need

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S4E11 - How to Prepare for a Natural Death at Home

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20 Aug 202539min

S4E10 - Laughter at the Bedside - A Conversation with Tiffany Riley of the Laughter League

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In this heartfelt episode, Claire O’Berry speaks with longtime friend and visionary artist Tiffany Riley, co-founder of the Laughter League. Tiffany shares what it means to be a professionally trained...

13 Aug 202555min

S4E9 - Understanding Your Disease – From Diagnosis to Call to Action

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What happens after a life-changing diagnosis? In this candid and heartfelt episode, Claire O’Berry shares her personal journey following her husband’s recent Parkinson’s diagnosis. From the first awkw...

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S4E8 - Special Edition- Hospice, Community, and Courage with CEO James Jarvis

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