Grief & Loss Workshop – March 14th and March 21st
This Grief and Loss class brings people together to explore losses they have had, and where they are in relation to those losses. The sharing that the class encourages is part of the healing journey. I hope you will join us! College of Hope presents a workshop on Grief and Loss, led by Bhakti…
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College of Hope Talk
I am delighted to be facilitating a workshop for the College of Hope on Tuesday, February 15 at 6pm. Grief and Loss is the subject and participants will be learning how to cope with grief and how to identify and navigate the stages of grief and loss. I hope you will join me. I love…
Read MoreGuest Post – Traditional Burial, Cremation, or…
I wrote a guest post about traditional burial and cremation on The Law Offices of Jenny Ling, PLLC Traditional Burial, Cremation, or… Guest article by Bhakti Watts, End of Life Doula It has not been that long since the choice for what to do with your body after you’re finished with it was simple: traditional…
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Our bodies contain so much wisdom. They know how and when to heal themselves and they know how and when to die. Our minds are the part of us that can get distracted at the end of life, especially in a culture such as ours that may consider death a “failure”. Death is a totally…
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Crystal Cannon Flores Testimonial
This wonderful testimonial came in last week from colleague Crystal Cannon Flores and posted on Facebook and Instagram:
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True to Life
True to Life Group “People aren’t looking for the meaning of life, they are looking for the experience of being alive.” Alexis Sheppard, paraphrasing Joseph Campbell Planning what we want to be surrounded by at end of life is all well and good, but what do we want to be surrounded by right now? Living…
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Grief Collage: Guide Card for Unknowing
This is a collage I made last week. I call it my guide card. The solidity of the bus and the certainty of the maps contrast with the unknown in the upper left-hand corner. That unknowingness is where we are right now in this pandemic. Not knowing is really where we always are. We just…
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Experience Magazine Profile
Experience Magazine published an essay highlighting the work of Bhakti Watts: Many times, doulas solicit anecdotes and shared memories from people in the patient’s life so the patient can see their impact on others. Bhakti Watts, a Seattle-based death doula, is frequently asked to help set up reconciliations so that a dying person can make amends…
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