Updates and Suchlike

It's been awhile since I've really updated here and much has happened.

Let me introduce myself for anyone popping by.

I am Christina and I am a magpie of all the things.  I love reading, writing and any kind of creative art. I walk the Shamanic Path (The Four Winds Society) and am a Psychopomp which led into my taking EOL classes with INELDA so that I can do both sides of the EOL journey with people.  

I just finished Day 3 of the INELDA course and am so humbled and honored to be in a class of amazing instructors and students.  The course is so perfectly tailored from start to finish and I have learned so much already - mostly that I still have much to learn ;)

The classes have taken what I thought of as "surface work," and instead taking me into a deep dive down under the surface to explore in greater depth many topics and beliefs.  The people I have been paired with in small groups have been the exact people I have needed to learn from at the perfect time and that sort of synchronicity tells me I am precisely where I need to be right now. 

While I do plan on being a full spectrum end of life care (death) doula, I plan on specializing in Grief work - especially with families of suicide or sudden/unexpected deaths.   With that in mind I will be going back to school - I found a program of sociology/counseling that will enable me to widen my scope in helping people.  I also want to be sure everyone has their Advance Planning and Advanced Directives paper work in order. 

I am still processing so much of the class and my brain is full of ideas bursting all over the place but right now I need to focus on some "Learning at Home" work - which is Vigil Planning. Specifically my own Vigil and how I would like my last days to death to look like.

Call me twisted but I am grinning ear to ear while thinking about how I want everything to be - Death doesn't need to be all sadness - this inevitable failure of being will happen to us all. Sometimes humor and a light heart can help take us where we need to be.  The next great adventure awaits - just, you know, not quite yet ;)