Life, Death & Everything In Between

Grief doesn’t pause for work—but how do we cope when loss happens while we’re on the job?In this episode, Dr. Daphene Francis explores the impact of loss in professional spaces. Whether it’s losing a colleague, a loved one, or supporting others through their grief, this discussion centres around how we navigate loss while balancing work and life.

Celebrating our second anniversary of Death Café TT with a Mindful Breathing Exercise by Alyssa Rostant.Alyssa is a dear friend and supporter, and we're so grateful for this beautifully recorded gift that she gave to us.We played it at the end of our anniversary death café session, and since those are not recorded, we decided to share this breathing exercise for those who couldn't make it to the live session.Thank you for continuing to be part of this thriving community and we hope that you come back to this exercise any time you need it.Alyssa also has a YouTube channel called Mindset Breath with a playlist of exercises.https://www.youtube.com/@mindsetbreath

Four end-of-life doulas have a virtual meet up to share their personal journeys into this work, the experiences that have shaped them, and their vision for the future of end-of-life care.

Margaret has been researching themes of reincarnation, near death experiences and the phenomena of child prodigies and is excited to share her findings. This was an open discussion held live on zoom which examined incredible stories shared by people around the world.During the presentation, Margaret shared some clips from a few YouTube videos on the topic of reincarnation, along with some additional links for further research which we will share below.Scientific study of very young children and their stories of previous lives by Ian Stevenson MDReincarnation, Part One: The Research of Ian Stevenson, with Walter SemkiwA cultural, and religious practice of reincarnation - Tibetan BuddhismDalai Lama: The Soul Of Tibet | Full Documentary | BiographyExperience of the moment at which the soul agrees to re enter life and be birthed PRE-BIRTH EXPERIENCE, Why Life IS SO HARD & YOUR Life BEFORE Incarnation! | Christian Sundberg  Existence and non existence - birth is coming into a specific formInteresting REINCARNATION video you must watch!!Eastern and western attitudes to children and reincarnationBBC on Remembered Previous LivesChild prodigies Mozart  Top 10 Child Prodigies Baby Dev does the mathGENIUS 2-Year-Old Baby Dev Is AGT's Youngest Mathematician! | Auditions | AGT 2024  Elisey Mysin concert pianist Astana Piano Passion, competition, Elisey Mysin, 6 years 2 year old Ukrainian geography whiz2-летняя девочка Арина Шугалевич знает все столицы мира! - Україна має талант Дети - Кастинг в КиевеSuggested links for further informationExplores reported experiences of persons who experienced NDEs - near death experiences - and other concepts/phenomenon of the afterlife both scientific explorations + spiritual thinkers.10 Mind-Blowing Facts About the AfterlifeCelebrated story of terminally ill cancer patient on her deathbed who describes what happened.Dying to be me! Anita Moorjani at TEDxBayAreaAn NDE neurosurgeon skeptic experienced fatal illness, 7 day coma returns with NDE recallThis Video Will Give You Goosebumps - Dr. Eben Alexander On AfterlifeEben Alexander: A Neurosurgeon's Journey through the AfterlifeChristian Sundberg's Book 'A Walk in the Physical'https://awalkinthephysical.com/book/Entire book available on Google Books (Free!)

Indigenous people believe that time is cyclical.We are a continuation of what has gone before and our experience carries the seeds for the future.Like the ripe fruit that falls to the forest floor to decay.Once bud.Once flower.Once fruit.Decay is an element of soil...life springs from decay.So is it any wonder then that we are energised when we come in contact with it? We may feel like we are afraid of it, but death has been giving us life.

The house party is over, and a couple people stop in just as it's wrapping up. You're all huddled together in the kitchen, talking over some left overs, and it ends up being the best part of the night.Imagine you hit record. Here's how it went.

Are you afraid of dead people? Have you ever encountered a person you know to be deceased? How did we come to believe the dead are to be feared? These are some of the questions we will explore in this episode - just in time for spooky season!

Cyrus is a peer navigator at Mt. Hope, giving psycho/social, non-medical support for persons receiving an HIV positive diagnosis. An advocate and member of the LGBTQ+ community, Cyrus traces the history of the community from the '80s to present day.

July 27th marks one year of death café tt!We can't thank our community enough for trying something different and trusting the process. For this death café session, we decided to record which is not something we usually do, and we're so glad we did. There were some beautiful conversations that happened quite naturally, and we're so grateful for the way this community shows up and finds strength in vulnerability.Music credits: Praises by Issahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__mChXD12us

Tamara is part of the Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist Chapter, which was officially established in Trinidad in the early 1990s. It is a Japanese Buddhism that dates back to the 12th century when Nichiren Daishonin first chanted the words "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo" (Devotion to the Mystic Law of Cause and Effect).