Episode 004:

Let’s Talk About Death with Ebony West

DIVE INTO EBONY’S MIND....

We’re all gonna die! It sounds dramatic but it’s true! Death is one of the few certainties in life, yet it’s a topic that is largely feared and avoided within our culture. 

Today’s guest, Ebony West, wants to open up the conversation around death and dying. Ebony is a holistic psychotherapist, disability support worker, poet, and a curious explorer of what it is to exist as a human being. Together, we peer beyond the veil of an experience that is largely avoided and feared in order to explore the mystery of death - literally, culturally, personally, egoically, spiritually. 

In today’s episode, we chat about…

  • How the topic of death has been at the forefront of 2020 (1:53)

  • The history of our collective fear of death (3:43)

  • The relationship between sex and death (5:07)

  • The medicalisation of death (6:17)

  • The mini deaths we all experience throughout our lives (7:33)

  • How allowing parts of ourselves to die makes way for new life and new ways of being (12:50)

  • Our early encounters with death and dying and how this shapes our view of death (15:57)

  • The death of cultural systems and how this can make way for new ways of living (19:04)

  • What happens when we die (22:17)

  • Preparing for the death of a loved one (and Ebony’s surprising reason for choosing this topic) (26:02)

  • Whether knowing the date of our death would change the way we live (30:30)

  • What it means to live a good life (33:30)

  • The mystery of soul and the animating life force within us (36:25)

  • Why we’re so resistant to talking about death and grief  (39:59)

  • Grief and love (44:26)

  • A process for working with grief (46:25)

And so much more!


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