The inevitability of death stirs up fear and anxiety in many. But avoiding talk about our mortality only increases unease around the end...

When Eirinie Carson 's charismatic, whip-smart best friend Larissa died suddenly of an overdose at age 32, Eirinie was utterly...

If you’ve ever felt like you needed permission to grieve, or your grief just wasn’t understood by others, this book and this episode is...

On the Peaceful Exit podcast, I spoke with therapists Justine Mastin, MA, LMFT, LADC and Larisa Garski about how we can change the...

Larisa Garski and Justine Mastin are practicing therapists who have authored two books together. Their narrative approach to therapy...

Navigating the final chapter of life can be an emotional and daunting process. But with an increased understanding of the dying process...

Barbara Karnes is a pioneer of the modern hospice movement in the United States. She got her start as a hospice nurse when medical...

During my conversation with Claudia Castro Luna on the Peaceful Exit podcast, we dove into the transformative power of poetry in...

Poems are tools for existential work and Claudia Castro Luna’s poetry is our guide to a deeper understanding of place and belonging....

Confronted with terminal illness, relationships undergo profound transformations. As our recent guest Rebecca Woolf knows, the dynamics...

Lucinda Herring has over 20 years of experience as a licensed funeral director and a home funeral guide. Her book, “Reimagining Death:...

Dacher Keltner is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and a professor of psychology at the University of California,...

Sheldon Solomon, a professor of psychology at Skidmore College, has spent his professional life studying humans’ fear of death and the...

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist who suffered a stroke at 37 and spent the next eight years working towards...

Rebecca and her husband Hal were on the brink of divorce when Hal was handed a terminal cancer diagnosis. He died just months later. Her...

In the wake of a terminal cancer diagnosis, Barbara and her late husband, Bob, kept on living. In fact, they partied. Barbara details how...

Reverend Deborah L Johnson (Rev D) shares the story of her remarkable call to ministry as a teenager and how she got there on her own...

Ever wonder why funerals look the way they do? Fourth-generation funeral director Todd Harra explains the evolution of the industry in...

Father and distinguished professor WJT Mitchell (Tom) lost his son, Gabe, to schizophrenia. Tom details how Gabe embraced the term...

Dr. Anita Sanchez shares Indigenous wisdom for living in today’s world. A big focus of the conversation is about forgiving the...