What happened to Dying with Grace?
The premise was this: The FINAL gift that we can give someone is to honour their time on earth; to celebrate the life they lived and to cherish the memory they leave behind.
As a professional event planner and someone who has personally companioned three family members at end of life, I was ready to enter into this work from a place of kindness and compassion. To facilitate whatever people needed and wanted to have happen around their event. I’ve been writing and event planning for as long as I can remember, so when I launched Dying with Grace on June 20th, 2018, it was during one of those full circle moments. I had been thinking about and meditating on this new venture for more than a year, developing my offerings and designing a new website. My intent was to take my love of helping clients design events, along with my work in death and dying, and a lifelong passion for words, and create something new; a place to create heart centered events, to honour those who have transitioned, and to support those who remained.
The universe had other plans…
I launched my site on the evening of the 20th and within 24 hours, my niece’s beautiful 16-year-old brother had died by accident in Victoria, BC. I spent the next two months supporting our family’s grief and planning a celebration to honour his life and his legacy; exactly the type of work I had imagined, albeit a little too close to my heart.
In the year that followed Gabe’s death, I spent my time working with clients on anything and everything but death related events. In time, I started to write obituaries and eulogies, and slowly began to find my way back to death. Not long after that, our collective focus shifted to the start of a pandemic and in person events disappeared. Dying with Grace died a slow and quiet death, and I moved on to new ventures.
The Universe has a way of shifting things, and while we may not realize it at the time, it’s always in the right direction. My heart is once again leading me down a new road, filled with hope and promise, and yes death. My new venture, which combines my life and death work, www.livinganddyingwithgrace.com is filled with the best of intentional offerings and embodies what I believe most – that we are here to live our best life and then die a good death.
I hope you’ll you join me here.
