How to Live So We Can Die Peacefully with Death Doula Alua Arthur

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

1. What Alua has learned about living well from the many people she’s helped walk home as a death doula. 2. The “deathbed test” that guides her toward what is important and helps her stay present. 3. Alua eases Abby’s immense fear of death by sharing her glitter-wave vision. 4. The most surprising thing she wants us to know about death. 5. Concrete steps we can take now to help prepare ourselves–and our loved ones–for the inevitable. About Alua: Alua Arthur is a death doula, recovering attorney, and the founder of Going with Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization that exists to support people as they answer the question, “What must I do to be at peace with myself so that I may live presently and die gracefully?” Going with Grace works to improve and redefine the end-of-life experience for people rooted in every community using the individual lived experience as the foundation. Alua was a keynote speaker at EndWell 2019, and has been featured in the LA Times, Vogue, Refinery29, The Doctors, and InStyle. She is inspired by the gift of LIFE itself and is always on the quest for the best donuts and fried plantains! TW: @goinggracefully IG: @going_with_grace To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We'll finally find our way back home.
0:07.6	Hi everybody, welcome to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:11.2	I am happy today because we are finally talking about, yeah.
0:19.2	Oh boy.
0:20.2	Yeah, so since we started this podcast, my sister, her big topic that she was most excited
0:27.4	to talk about was Menopause.
0:29.9	And my topic that I was most excited to talk about was death.
0:35.9	So I feel like it's a mystery-wise sister and I don't get invited to more parties.
0:44.3	And I know that this is a scary topic for a lot of people, but we're going to do it unscarily
0:50.4	and beautifully.
0:52.2	We are so excited to introduce our guest today, the Joyful Hilarious Effervescent
0:59.3	Brilliant and deeply wise, Alua Arthur as Alua Arthur says,
1:05.9	talking about sex won't make us pregnant, talking about death won't make us dead.
1:11.6	Alua Arthur is a death doula recovering attorney and the founder of Going With Grace, a death
1:17.0	doula training and end of life planning organization that exists to support people as they
1:22.3	answer this question that I love so much, what must I do to be at peace with myself?
1:29.3	So that I may live presently and die gracefully.
1:34.6	Going with Grace works to improve and redefine the end of life experience for people rooted
1:39.6	in every community using the individual lived experience as the foundation.
1:45.2	Alua is inspired by the gift of life itself and is always on the quest for the best
1:50.2	donuts and fried plantains.
1:53.0	Alua, welcome.
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