The Mourning Session

In today's episode, Tara is joined by Amber Carvaly. Amber is a licensed funeral director in Los Angeles, CA. She has worked in the funeral industry for 8 years. She cofounded & ran Undertaking LA, a funeral home that focused on giving control over the dead back to the families. She now works in the online world & does all facets of death education.
In this episode, we discuss compassion fatigue that is felt by death care professionals. We also discuss alternative funeral options, such as online memorials. We talk through what death positive (death acceptance) means in a death denial culture.

Amber can be contacted at
http://www.deathcareconnect.com
http://www.greystokemedia.com
http://www.instagram.com/morticianinthekitchen

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Today's guest on The Mourning Session podcast is Clara Anderson Sainte. She is the Program Director at Gilda's Club Kansas City. The mission of Gilda's Club Kansas City is to "ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action and sustained by community".

In this episode, we discuss grief & loss in the cancer community.  There is a lot of disenfranchised grief (grief that is not acknowledged by society) with a cancer diagnosis.  For example, if a woman loses her hair because of chemotherapy treatments, she might be told that it is "only hair". 

In this episode we also look at the unrealistic expectations that are created for terminal cancer patients and their families. We examine the "battle" mentality that is so common in cancer treatment. We "kick cancer's butt" or we "loose our battle" with cancer.  We also discuss if it time to reconsider the term "cancer survivor". 

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Welcome to The Mourning Session, hosted by Tara Tooley. This podcast was created to normalize conversations about grief, loss, death & mourning.  Eco-friendly burial will also be discussed.

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