End of Life Doula Briget Kelly on Death Literacy, Grief, Loss, Music and her business: Rhiannon's Service - #05

05/31/23 • 52 min

"She lovingly carries souls from Earth to the afterlife plane, upon her trusty white horse helping them adjust to the transition of life after death.”

I interviewed Adelaide-based Briget Kelly who is an end-of-life doula. We chatted about loss, death in art forms, the stages of grief, and more.
Briget's list of funeral songs:
You're So Cool - Hans Zimmer
Hymn to Her - The Pretenders
All Night Loud - The Cat Empire
Forever Young - Youth Group
Meet Me in the Middle of the Air - Paul Kelly
Books Briget has recently read with death elements:
Cloudstreet
Bridge to Terabithia
Harry Potter (especially Deathly Hallows)
All Our Shimmering Skies
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Moonstone
Connect with Briget Kelly through her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Rhian.Service/ or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rhian.service/
View the beautiful tree image that Briget has on her business card here
Which songs would you have at your funeral? Which books have you read recently with strong death elements? Drop me a line via my social links below. x

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(Original music and lyrics from Amongst The Waves by Pearl Jam)

"She lovingly carries souls from Earth to the afterlife plane, upon her trusty white horse helping them adjust to the transition of life after death.”

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Better Loud Than Too Late with Genevra - End of Life Doula Briget Kelly on Death Literacy, Grief, Loss, Music and her business: Rhiannon's Service - #05

Transcript

00:00:00:00 - 00:00:33:51
00:00:33:51 - 00:00:47:20
Briget Kelly
The thing about grief is that there's so much of it in our lives. We don't even always recognize that there's things that we're grieving about, you know? So throughout our life, we have
00:00:47:20 - 00:01:02:08
Briget Kelly
a lot of losses. You know, that might be loss of a relationship, loss of a job, loss of a house, loss of a child, loss of our memory, loss of our independence, you know, all kinds of things.