If you have ever known grief, you're going to want to listen 🎧

This episode on the Who We Become podcast is so special because you get to hear me with my first guest!

🖤 KristySue: Founder of Death Priestess and a Death, Grief & Rebirth Doula

Featured on the cover of Detroit Metro Times for her role in the rise of modern grief work, KristySue is redefining how we approach death, loss, and transformation. As a widow-parent, she brings lived experience to her work, bridging the sacred and the practical to support individuals and communities through profound change.

Blending ritual, somatic practice, and grounded guidance, she creates spaces where grief is not rushed or silenced but integrated, honored, and lived alongside. Her work challenges outdated narratives around death care, offering a more human, soul-centered approach to rebuilding life after loss.

If you are being called to learn more or work with KristySue, you can contact her via www.DeathPriestess.org

⏰ Episode Time Stamps ⏰

00:00 KristySue's grief story

8:50 Who we become through losing someone

14:04 Shame and life conversations on death and grief

21:00 Being unprepared to lose someone and life after

38:57 Hosting the Death Cafe

43:23 The practice of holding space

51:04 Self care and grief

1:10:41 Becoming The Death Priestess

1:20:08 Appreciating duality and getting curious

1:27:08 Capacity for grief over time

1:30:00 Forget the "stages" of grief

1:34:06 After the funeral

1:38:57 Reality of healing in today's world

1:42:00 Who and where to go to when you want to talk about your grief

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