In this episode, Francesca shares how love, compassion, and intuition drew her to lean into a loved one's end of life as they transition to death and how that was the seed to becoming a death doula.
Francesca Lynn Arnoldy is a community doula and death literacy advocate. She is a researcher with the Vermont Conversation Lab and was the original course developer of the University of Vermont's End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Programs.
Francesca authored Cultivating the Doula Heart, Map of Memory Lane, and The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared.
A trusted thought leader, Francesca has been featured in articles by The New York Times, Fast Company, Newsweek, The Verge, and AARP. She regularly presents on life-and-death topics, hoping to encourage people to support one another through times of intensity.
You can find her contemplating birth, death, and life with the doula heart at FrancescaLynnArnoldy.com.
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