End-of-Life University Ep. 455 Briefly Perfectly Human with Alua Arthur
Learn about a powerful NY Times bestselling memoir that teaches how acknowledging our mortality helps us live a more authentic life.
My guest Alua Arthur is the founder of Going With Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization. She is a frequent guest on television and radio and has been featured on CBS’s The Doctors and in Disney’s Limitless docu-series with Chris Hemsworth. Alua is the author of the recently published NY Times bestseller Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End. She shares her story of how she was inspired to learn more about death and teach others how to live fully in the face of our mortality. Learn more at Alua’s website:
This episode includes:
- The value of authenticity in memoir-writing
- How life prepares us for the work we are meant to do
- How a single conversation shifted the path of Alua’s life
- What inspired Alua to get training as a death doula
- Creating better boundaries as we do this work with people at the end of life
- Compassion allows us to honor another person’s journey without trying to control it
- How death doula work can be financially viable
- Why education of the public is an essential foundation for the work we are doing
- How the “death-space” is welcoming to diverse people with a wide variety of skills
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- Register for Foundations of Compassionate Communities Course (Free)
- Previous interview with Olivia Bareham
- Limitless with Chris Hemsworth on Disney +
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