Our Stories: Conversations on Conscious Living and Dying: Recent Episodes
Dianna Edwards
Author and psychotherapist, Dianna Edwards, brings us a series of recorded interviews with people who want to be a part of the journey of normalizing the conversation around death and dying. Or as we, the story tellers, feel and see it, conscious living and dying.Sharing these stories was certainly medicine to the story teller and now each of them offer their story as a gift to you.We hope this is a resource library for you of information, wisdom and energetic medicine for your body and soul. You may laugh or you may cry but please don’t judge; rather, open your heart.
In this episode, Dianna Edwards shares the difficult decision of realizing it was time for her to let her beloved dog, Patou, die. He trusted her with his life and he knew he could trust her with his death. Being a loving, conscious and courageous presence at the death of our pets is a profound gift to ourselves and an invaluable way to help grow future generation’s respect around the power and importance of being with dying.
Click here to watch the short video about Patou’s Crossing.
In this episode, Christa shares how after being so emerged in her life with her husband, his death forced her to energetically find herself again. She sought healing in nature.
As her lucid dreams brought her more messages and visits from loved ones, she never questioned the dreams and instead saw them as medicine for healing. Embracing the journey of the death of her loved ones opened her heart to the magic of life.
How do we cope with losing someone we love? This episode brings the voice of master botanical perfumer Christa Obuchowski forward. Losing her father at an early age, we hear of Christa’s childhood in Germany and how she found healing with her family’s love of music, plants, and art.
Later on, her husband’s sudden and unexpected death turned everything around once again. By courageously facing her grief Christa always finds the magic and beauty in life.
In this episode, Elizabeth Irvine, a former nurse, mother, author, and owner of Truewellbeing discusses her earliest memories of death. Elizabeth shares the incredible challenges she faced in the ICU when dealing with the deaths of her infant patients.
She also describes the ultimate “miracles” she experienced at her father’s death, when the “sign” he agreed to use after he died to communicate with Elizabeth that he was all right, showed up more than once.