Ep. 45 - Guest: Kate Adamson

Kate Adamson is a freelance interfaith minister, serving as a chaplain for the thresholds of birth and death, and everything in-between. Her work as a wedding officiant, end-of-life-doula, and spiritual counselor centers on the transformative power of ritual, embodied presence, and collective experience. She lives on a mountain in the Rockfish Valley of Virginia with 3 generations of family, a golden retriever, a gecko, and two cats.

Kate has a particular passion for supporting families in reclaiming the act of caring for their loved ones' bodies after death. This passion was ignited through an experience of profound loss, with the unexpected death of her stepson Ruis. The family washed, tended, and buried his body themselves over the course of 3 days, with the help and support of a strong community. She now serves as a Home Funeral Guide and Educator to support other families in this process.

She speaks about:

- her experience of tending to her stepson's body after his death

- the expansion that came from her heart being broken open by grief and how, by accommodating the pain and the sadness, she became who she needed to be in order to love beyond the physical, so that her relationship can continue

- what helped her move through intense grief

- the transformative power of ritual and the opportunity to let grief be put into action, in an intuitive way, and

- what a home funeral can look like and the options that are available to you after a loved one dies

You can connect with Kate through her website: www.revkate.com or through @tickledspirit on Facebook

You may find more information about natural home funerals at www.homefuneralalliance.org

If you're in the Albemarle, Virginia area, you may register for the Sunday, November 5, 2023 event, Death Fest: Gather, Grieve, Grow, here

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