This very special episode of After Life Marie talks with Kayla Carter. Kayla Carter is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and healer. She is a Tkaronto-based Black, disabled, chronically ill, femme survivor of Jamaican, Cuban, and Maroon ancestry and believes that her existence is not accidental, but deliberate. With a Masters in Health Studies, her research was on the epigenetics of ancestral trauma. Kayla has been an equity and diversity facilitator and consultant for over 10 years. Her work focuses on ancestral and intergenerational trauma, race, gender, sexuality, disability justice, reproductive justice and what it means to be unabashedly human. Starting her career as an artist at the ripe age of 15, Kayla has performed to sold-out audiences. Through her work as a healer and intuitive reiki practitioner, Kayla works with clients to work through mental health, self-care, self-love, ancestral and intergenerational trauma, sustainable forms of healing, and radical reproductive justice/healing. She is currently working towards becoming a birth doula for underserved communities. Kayla also hosts BIPOC Grief/Death Talks in Tkoronto. In this episode we talk about decolonization, capitalism and the politics of death, why golf courses are ridiculous, ancestral love and building a practice of gratitude.