Holding Humans w/Megan Devine

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with best-selling author, psychotherapist, & grief advocate Megan Devine, while they talk about how it’s okay that it’s not okay, the complicated case of Prolonged Grief Disorder, & how the work of other people’s grief might impact us & what’s required to keep doing it.

This episode originally aired April 14th, 2022.

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megan devine’s
website: https://www.megandevine.co/
And here: https://refugeingrief.com/
”How Do You Help a Grieving Friend?”: https://youtu.be/l2zLCCRT-nE

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Comfortable With Death w/Joshua Rose O'Hara

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with lifelong queer activist, revolutionary, thought leader, & psychic survivor Joshua Rose O’Hara, while they talk about their vastly varying experience with dying loved ones & ceremonies for those dead, their work protecting & expanding reproductive rights in Alaska, & their near death [or just plain dying] with producer Nick Jaina in collision with a pregnant cow.

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joshua rose o’hara wants you to support
prairie creek conservation cemetery: https://www.prairiecreekconservationcemetery.org/
northwest abortion access fund: https://nwaafund.org/

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I Want You To Have a Body w/Megan Falley

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with queer femme writer, spoken word poet, author, & teaching artist Megan Falley, while they talk about how two decades of hating her body shifted with her partner’s cancer diagnosis, how confronting mortality altered her idea of what beauty is, & how being a steward over her partner’s health lead to a decision to vow some of that same love & devotion to herself.

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megan falley’s
website: https://www.meganfalley.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/meganfalley/
poems that don’t suck online writing course: https://www.meganfalley.com/workshops

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A Legacy of Queer Care w/Jamie Thrower

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Queer Death Doula, End of Life Educator & Grief Guide Jamie Thrower, while they talk about parent loss, medical aid in dying, Queer death care/planning/grief experiences & why it’s important to have inclusive support for all of the LGBTQ+ community.

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jamie thrower’s
website: https://jamiethrower.com/
support via venmo: @jamie-thrower
queer grief club
ig: https://www.instagram.com/queergriefclub/
zines: https://www.etsy.com/shop/queergriefclub

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A Vision for the End of Life w/Staci Haines

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Staci K. Haines, a national leader in Somatics & the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatic, Healing and Social Change, while they talk about the shock & ceremony of her mom's diagnosis & dying, their co-creating a Vision for the end of life, & how these personal experiences of loss connect to social justice.

This interview originally aired July 22nd, 2021.

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staci haines’
website: https://www.stacihaines.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/stacikhaines/
books: https://www.stacihaines.com/books
Register for The Politics of Trauma: Embodied Transformation, Social Action and Love online course: https://www.stacihaines.com/enroll

Staci recommends offering money, time or other resources to…
BOLD - Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity: https://boldorganizing.org/
Black Futures Lab: https://blackfutureslab.org/ Indigenous Environmental Network: https://www.ienearth.org/
SURJ - Showing Up for Racial Justice: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/

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Is This How I Want To Be? w/Prentis Hemphill

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Prentis Hemphill, writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, & therapist, talking about how a simple gaze offered the opportunity for a new legacy of love, getting to the work of grieving the past, & how their being in the world can be traced back to an 11-year-old Prentis who found God in a hiding place.

TW: The general act of “suicide” is mentioned, but nothing in detail.

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prentis’
website: https://prentishemphill.com
ig: https://www.instagram.com/prentishemphill

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The Value of Death w/Aditi Sethi

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dr. Aditi Sethi, hospice & palliative care physician, end-of-life doula, & musician, talking about her work as Founder & Executive Director of the Center for Conscious Living & Dying, the dying of Ethan Sisser captured in the documentary The Last Ecstatic Days, & how Aditi’s life journey has led to her work & being in the world.

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aditi’s
website: https://www.aditisethimd.com/

Center for Conscious Living & Dying: https://www.ccld.community/
Sign up for the CCLD updates & news: https://www.ccld.community/subscribe
Support the CCLD: https://www.ccld.community/donation
Or Venmo @ConsciousLivingDying

The Last Ecstatic Days website: https://www.thelastecstaticdaysmovie.com/
The Last Ecstatic Days on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheLastEcstaticDays
The Last Ecstatic Days on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelastecstaticdays/
The Last Ecstatic Days on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelastecstaticdaysmovie/

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Wash It All Away w/Adrienne Shamszad

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with singer-songwriter Adrienne Shamszad, crying & laughing their way through a conversation about living a life worth dying for, music as a way forward in the darkness of mental health struggles & existential crises, & honoring our ancestral lineage in song.

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adrienne’s
website: https://adrienneshamszad.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/aidishams/
patreon: https://www.patreon.com/adrienneshamszad
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adrienneshamszadmusic/
bandcamp: https://adrienneshamszad.bandcamp.com/
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5aIWNyQhH7GELkGMLDOZ3k
Freight & Salvage Show - August 31st, 2023: https://secure.thefreight.org/12814/adrienne-shamszad

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”Untitled Poem” by 14th Century Author Hafez
”Nakhaahad Maand [It Won’t Stay Like This]” composed by Mahsa Vahdat & Adrienne Shamszad, performed by Adrienne Shamszad
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I'll Never Be Ready w/Wendy MacNaughton

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with New York Times best-selling illustrator & graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton, talking about her book “How to Say Goodbye: The Wisdom of Hospice Caregivers,” combining drawings from her artist’s residency inside The Zen Hospice Project Guest House, with words of hospice caregivers she interviewed, including a list of The Five Things to help us say goodbye.

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wendy’s
website: https://www.wendymacnaughton.com/
"The Grown-Ups Table" substack: https://substack.com/@drawtogether
book - How to Say Goodbye: https://www.wendymacnaughton.com/illustration/how-to-say-goodbye

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The Work w/BJ Miller & Ladybird Morgan

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with return guests & friends BJ Miller & Ladybird Morgan, talking about their work in the world, together with Mettle Health, & Mettle Health’s Annual Convening happening in Nevada City, CA on August, 17th 2023, an event meant for everyone who will be touched by the subject of aging, illness, death, & grief...

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mettle health annual convening’s
website: https://mettlehealth.com/annual-convening-2023

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Going With Grace w/Alua Arthur

Join host Ned Buskirk, in conversation with Alua Arthur - Death Doula, Ordained Minister, Recovering Lawyer, Perpetual Seeker of Nothing to be Found & Founder of Going with Grace - while they talk about death activism, the touchstone of nihilism, & being in the question marks of dying.

This interview originally aired February 4th, 2021.

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alua arthur’s
ig: https://www.instagram.com/going_with_grace/
TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkeuKPZxEhM
Going with Grace: https://goingwithgrace.com/
Going with Grace End of Life Education and Planning: https://www.goingwithgracecourses.com/

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Time in a Bottle w/Laura Sullivan Cassidy

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Laura Sullivan Cassidy, writer/editor, creative consultant/coach, artist/experience maker, & grief/death/funeral care worker, talking about the personal experience of death when your profession is deathwork, using “Griefmapping” for navigating loss, & our necessary responsibility more than ever for community care with grief/death/dying.

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laura sullivan cassidy’s
substack: https://grieversball.substack.com/

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Slower w/Mara June

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Mara June of MOTHERWORT + ROSE, educator, facilitator, community weaver, writer, caregiver, death doula, & community herbalist, talking about the value of approaching death before we’re in the midst of it, their work with our herbal allies, especially MOTHERWORT + ROSE, & how important it is to remember death, like birth, is not meant for any of us to do alone.

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mara june’s
website: https://www.motherwortandrose.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/motherwortandrose/

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How to Trust Grief w/Francis Weller

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with psychotherapist, writer, & soul activist Francis Weller, talking about the saturation of sorrow we’re faced with in these times - the Long Dark - & how we might trust, befriend, & accompany our grief with slow encounters, to return with medicine for our community, as we more wholly & fully renter LIFE.

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francis weller’s
website: https://www.francisweller.net/

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Buddhism in Prison w/Ven. Robina Courtin

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with the Venerable Robina Courtin, a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition & lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche, talking about one of Buddhism’s first truths, death & impermanence, & the life-deepening lessons from our incarcerated community.

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ven. robina courtin’s
website: https://robinacourtin.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/robinacourtin/

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This Body of Mine Is Here w/Andrea Gibson

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with poet & activist Andrea Gibson, in laughter & tears on the chemo-brain railroad, talking about the record skipping parts of our lives’, the poetry of cancer, chronic disease, & panic attacks, & what it means to consider what’s available when faced with the hardest parts of being mortal.

This interview originally aired January 6th, 2022.

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andrea gibson’s
website: https://andreagibson.org/
book - “You Better Be Lightening”: https://buttonpoetry.com/product/you-better-be-lightning/
newsletter - “Things That Don’t Suck”: https://andreagibson.bulletin.com/subscribe

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“Time Piece” by Andrea Gibson w/music by Nick Jaina
”Whale & Mouse” by Liza Maytok: https://soundcloud.com/liza-maytok/whale-mouse
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Fear of Death Is Our God w/Richie Reseda

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with music, film, & content producer Richie Reseda, freed from prison in 2018, talking about how our culture is built around grief / loss / death / dying / mortality & how it serves capitalism more than it serves us, & how abolition is connected to our relationship with grief & dying.

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richie reseda
@ Question Culture: https://www.questionculture.com/
on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richiereseda/
& JJ’88’s single “Atlantic”: https://linktr.ee/jj_eightyeight

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How We Grieve Is Up To Us w/Claire Bidwell Smith

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with therapist, grief expert, & author Claire Bidwell Smith, talking about those of us who walk with a different awareness in the wake of loss, practicing expansion while living in the midst of the unknown, & using writing as a form of healing.

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claire bidwell smith’s
website: https://clairebidwellsmith.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/clairebidwellsmith/

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In the Truth w/Abigail Bengson

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Abigail Bengson, one half of the composing / performing / grief-working & dumb joke-writing, award-winning duo The Bengsons, talking about dissolving ravenously into the awe-filled urgent enoughness of loving & grieving LIFE.

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the bengsons’
website: https://www.bengsons.com/
patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebengsons
ig: https://www.instagram.com/thebengsons/

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Centering Our Selves w/Alica Forneret

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Alica Forneret, educator, speaker, & consultant dedicated to creating new spaces for people to explore grief & grieving, talking about her mother’s death & how this loss led to her work with PAUSE, an organization focused on supporting Communities of Color through grief & end of life.

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alica forneret’s
website: https://alicaforneret.co/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/alica.forneret/
PAUSE: https://www.timetopause.org/

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