The kind of spiritual path I’m on is a quest to deeply know, accept and integrate every part of my essential self and personal history —
Death did it! I’m sharing this with you today because there are some changes or additions to MGI…
I’ve learned the most in death’s {grief} swirl…because when we learn about death, we learn about life and l i v i n g!
I’ve finally & officially folded my death doula and death coaching work (and my ecopsychology background) to my coaching practice.
I’m supporting people in death and dying (hopping on with a death doula client in a few hours).
To share this just after my Mom’s death anniversary, and just a couple weeks after my own birth ‘anniversary’, feels poignant.
It’s a full circle moment for what I’ve allowed to become a positive force in it…
Death.
It’s part why I dance so much, why I feel my spirit unbreakable and it’s the root to why I am so focused on peace (a.k.a joy).
For 24 years, I’ve helped women craft business & brand identities rooted in purpose.
Now, I also guide people who have been given months to live, I hold the hands of wives or husbands as they move through their goodbyes, sitting with the confusion of what’s likely one of their greatest heartbreaks.
Related, I also guide clients through the deaths that must happen for their life purpose to truly take root. (Essentially, doing business and brand coaching as I always have, with an even clearer lens of purpose).
Because women like us, we need purposeful work we call our own.
To go back to adding death doula work to my practice, you and I both know that we die a million little deaths in this life and transitions like divorce, caring for ailing parents, our own medium or large health struggles and saying goodbye to kids as they leave for college (etc) can be challenging without a guide or heart-centered support.
As part of this work, I’ve already been creating rites of passages for clients and families, too, to “mark” their most important moments, to mark the tough moments but also to acknowledge the lift of those moments, all which connect back to each person’s deepest identity. (NOTE: in the end, whether I’m doing death doula work or rites of passage creator or brand work, it’s ALL identity work, in my opinion, and I wish my family and I would have had this support during our unthinkable).
So, the question is, how will we live the rest of our lives? And, what is ours to do and what is the presence we want to emanate?
For me, it’s living grateful for life *and* death.
Officially official! Thank you for being here and do please follow along on Instagram at ~> @michelleghilottimandel.
To your creations and explorations.