Embracing Your Mortality Sue Brayne

Welcome to my conversation with Vidya Frazier, who is one of the world's leading speakers on how humanity is currently experiencing a chaotic process of transformation. She believes people across the globe are waking up to a profound understanding that old structures need to crumble before new ways of being can emerge. And, it is time to answer the call to assist, in anyway way we can, the ushering in of a new age of human evolution on the planet.If you would like to contact Vidya, pleas...

Welcome to Embracing Your Mortality Podcast. Sophia Campbell-Shaw is the founder of Woven Farewell Coffins, where you can learn to weave your own coffin. She believes that facing death is a gift which brings meaning and purpose into focus. What’s more, 5% of the proceeds from of your willow coffin making goes to the The Woodland Trust, the UK's leading woodland conservation charity. Sophia believes this gifting towards a life-sustaining organisation is symbolic of the life-death-life cyc...

Today my guests are Lin Carruthers and Kate Clark, authors of a wonderfully helpful and practical book called Slow Down When Someone Dies. Lin is a trustee of Pushing up the Daisies, a charity formed in 2016 by Kate Clark. Their work is aimed at anyone who wants and needs practical options and to know their legal rights immediately after someone dies, especially for those wanting to keep the body at home after death. For more information about Lin and Kate, and Pushing U...

Today, my guest is Micheál Connors, director of The Natural Academy, a not for profit Eco Social Enterprise, which offers accredited training courses for organisations wanting to work with nature and for people seeking a career in health, and wellbeing, ecotherapy and eco-depth psychology. Lots of people are talking about the importance of connecting with Nature to find a sense of inner safety and healing, and the Natural Academy is taking this deeper by addressing the deep longing and y...

My guest is Terry Le Page, author of Eye of the Storm: facing climate and social chaos with calm and Courage. Terry is an American transitional minister and hospice chaplain. She facilitates non-violent communications groups, grief circles, and social justice groups locally and for the international Deep Adaptation Forum. Due to increasing global volatility I believe Terry's book will be one of the most important to come out this year. I recommend it to everyone and I hope you will ...

Happy New Year to you all! What a year's it's been, and I think 2024 will continue to be just as intense. This is why I am delighted that Neuropsychiatrist Dr Peter Fenwick is my first guest of the year, talking about consciousness and his own dying process. Peter has reached the grand age of 89, and is engaging robustly with his end of life preparations. For me, he certainly puts life back into perspective, and makes me question my own life path and the importance of preparing for ...