Episodios

  • Meeting Grief at the Holidays
    Dec 8 2025

    On this episode we hear from death and grief doula, Joslyn Roadstrom, who shares with us the many ways she meets her grief five years after her son, Israel, died in the hospital just a couple of months shy of his second birthday. You can find and follow Joslyn on Instagram at sacredroaddoula. She posts helpful videos and offers one on one grief support.

    https://www.instagram.com/sacredroaddoula/?hl=en

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    30 m
  • Naomi and Doug Co-Creating Art with his Death
    Nov 24 2025

    On today’s episode I have a conversation with Naomi Hayter on Cortes Island in Western Canada. The community-led deathcare group on the island provided the circle of support and logistical guidance that Naomi needed to get through the death of her life-partner, Doug, not long after she had tended to her mother’s dying and death in a faraway city. Naomi shares how the after-death care and the green burial they provided for Doug was a real eye-opener and a transformative experience for her.

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    52 m
  • Reflections on NHFA Board work
    Oct 31 2025

    On this episode, Sarah Crews has a conversation with Isabel Knight and Winx Gall as they reflect on the work they did while serving on the Board of Directors for the National Home Funeral Alliance. You can download the Home Funeral Guidebook, that they were instrumental in creating, at the link below.

    https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/

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    53 m
  • Father in the Garden
    Oct 12 2024

    On this first episode of Season 6, Sarah talks with Csenge Kolozsvari who, along with her four year old daughter, traveled from Montreal to her home village in Hungary to accompany her father on his dying journey. She shares the intimate and personal details of being present to her father's needs during his final weeks. Csenge is an artist and bodyworker. You can reach her here:
    https://www.thebreathing-room.com/en/home
    And she mentions this book, Die Wise, by Stephen Jenkinson in our conversation:
    https://orphanwisdom.com/shop/die-wise/

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    1 h y 6 m
  • The Path Brent Took
    May 21 2024

    On this episode Sarah has a conversation with Ed Nelson and his son, Erick Nelson. In February of 2023 Ed's brother Brent died from throat cancer. He had mentioned to Ed that he wanted a natural burial. Erick arrived in Kansas a couple of days before the scheduled burial and participated in an anointing ceremony with his dad, honoring his uncle.

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    45 m
  • Caring for Jeff at the Ashram
    Apr 12 2024

    Naomi Worob and Tina Zuccarello share the story of bringing Jeff to the ashram he loved to spend his final weeks surrounded by people who loved him and bury him on the property.

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    39 m
  • Known for Her Smile
    Mar 8 2024

    On today's episode, Carolyn Dehnbostel describes the home funeral she and her family provided for her mom, Betty, at their cabin in Minnesota, followed by a natural burial on their own land and the logistics involved in getting it all arranged.

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    50 m
  • Holding her Heart
    Feb 12 2024

    Today, Sarah has a conversation with Leslie Stager about the after-death care she and a small circle of friends provided to her mom at her home in Maine. Leslie's mom died unexpectedly which made keeping her home a little challenging.

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    48 m