AMY GLENN on a Life in Thresholds /341

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🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this week’s episode, guest Amy Glenn invites listeners on a journey to consider the value in caregiving and companioning. Rooting the conversation in her experience as both a birth and death doula, Amy details the deep work of holding space for all of life’s moments. Amy points out the thresholds of everyday life, and the value in sitting with uncertainty. Companioning, storytelling, and ritual making are all vital as we come to contemplate what it means to hold space for death. Of...

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0:54.1	Hello and welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Ayane Young.
1:00.0	Today we are speaking with Amy Glenn.
1:02.7	Threshold moments can happen throughout a day,
1:05.6	walking through the woods, and pausing and noticing.
1:08.9	Deeply noticing can feel like a threshold you see into something that's mysterious.
1:14.0	There's a pause of the regular mind and recognition of some kind of mystery at work or some kind of
1:20.6	liminal space where birth and death meet because a walk through the forest is a walk through birth and death.
1:29.1	Amy Wright Glenn earned her MA in religion and education from teachers college
1:33.4	Columbia University. She earned her BA from Reed College in the study of religion.
1:37.8	Amy taught for 11 years in the religion and philosophy department at the Lawrenceville
1:41.6	School in New Jersey, earning the Dunbar apps in junior chair for teaching excellence.
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